Is Feminist Philosophy Philosophy?

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments The editor would like to thank the following for permission to reprint the following articles: differences: AJournal ofFeminist Cultural Studies for AIys Eve Weinbaum, "Marx, Irigaray, and the Politics of Reproduction" from differences: AJournal ofFeminist Cultural Studies 6.1 (1994): 98-128; the University of Chicago Press for Iris Marion Young, "Mothers, Citizenship , and Independence: A Critique of Pure Family Values" from Ethics 105, no. 3 (1995): 535-55; Blackwell Publishers for Teresa Brennan , "Essence against Identity" from Metaphilosophy 27 (1996): 92-103; and Virginia Held for "Feminist Interpretations of Social and Political Thought" revised from Virginia Held, Feminist Interpretations ofSocial and Political Thought. This volume has come to fruition only through the hard work, assistance , and guidance of numerous individuals and organizations. First, thanks to the members of Graduate Faculty Women in Philosophy who organized the original conference from which this volume has grown; Camille Atkinson, Shana Mahaffey, Kelly Stoner, Lynn Taddeo, and especially Rachael Cayley worked tirelessly and with excellent humor to make it happen. The Department of Philosophy, the Committee on Gender Studies, and the Office of Student Mfairs at the Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research provided much needed and much appreciated financial assistance. Kitty Holland's astute advice on many aspects of the conference process was invaluable, as was that of Drucilla Cornell. The production of the book itself was vastly aided by my original coeditor, Falguni (Tina) A. Sheth, whose untimely withdrawal from the project was much regretted and to whom lowe an enormous debt of gratitude. Thanks too toJudith Friedlander, whose skillful editorial work onJacques Derrida's remarks has made his words so readable. The advice and support during different stages of editing and publication from Drucilla Cornell, Teresa Brennan, and Judith Butler has been much appreciated. Every contributor to this volume has abided through this somewhat lengthy process with patience and grace, and it has been an easy pleasure to work with each one of them, for which I am very grateful. xi xii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Much headway was made on this volume during the tenure of an International Fellowship from the American Association of University Women, and during the tenure ofthe List Holocaust Fellowship from the Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research. A visiting scholarship at the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, has provided an institutional base for this project. The partners at my part-time law firm job, Penelope Chronis and Elizabeth Kreher, willingly donated copying and printing facilities, and I thank them kindly for this and for their daily commitment to feminism. Lastly, immense gratitude must go to those people in my life who on a daily basis have been involved in the long and sometimes difficult process of the production of this book, namely, Tim Watson, David Kazanjian, Nicolai Meador, and Neon Weiss. ...