Feminist Philosophy
Feminist Phenomenology and Medicine
Phenomenological insights into health issues relating to bodily self-experience, normality and deviance, self-alienation, and objectification.
Reproduction, Race, and Gender in Philosophy and the Early Life Sciences
Investigates the impact of theories of reproduction and heredity on the emerging concepts of race and gender at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries.
Luce Irigaray's Phenomenology of Feminine Being
A dynamic interpretation of feminine identity capable of resistance, change, and transformation.
Mothering Queerly, Queering Motherhood
Provides a model for queering motherhood that resists racist, neoliberal, and hetero- or homonormative ideals of “good” mothering.
Ontological Humility
Explores ontological humility in the history of philosophy, from Descartes to contemporary gender and race theory.
Education Feminism
Collection of important essays by feminist scholars from cultural studies, philosophy of education, curriculum theory, and women’s studies.
Beauvoir and Western Thought from Plato to Butler
Essays on Beauvoir’s influences, contemporary engagements, and legacy in the philosophical tradition.
Violence and the Philosophical Imaginary
Examines how violence has been conceptually and rhetorically put to use in continental social theory.
This-Worldly Nibbāna
A Buddhist feminist social ethics for contemporary times.
Deleuze and Guattari's Immanent Ethics
Explains how the work of Deleuze and Guattari speaks to feminism and other progressive movements.
Sleights of Reason
Demonstrates the dramatic interplay of elements that comprise the concepts of norm, bisexuality, and development.
Thinking with Irigaray
An interdisciplinary and contemporary response to Irigaray’s work.
Whose Antigone?
Argues for the importance of the neglected theme of slavery in Antigone.
Feminist Readings of Antigone
New and classic essays on Antigone and feminist philosophy.
Convergences
Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy in dialogue.
Psychoanalysis, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Work of Julia Kristeva
Considers the social and political significance of Kristeva’s oeuvre.
Imagining Law
Essays consider Drucilla Cornell’s contributions to philosophy, political theory, and legal studies.
Unmaking Race, Remaking Soul
Explores the theme of aesthetic agency and its potential for social and political progress.
Sarah Kofman's Corpus
Draws connections between the life and writings of philosopher Sarah Kofman.
Musical Democracy
How music functions as a metaphor and model for democracy.
The Contradictions of Freedom
The essential companion to Simone de Beauvoir's celebrated novel.
Women and Children First
A critique of public policy rhetoric from multiple feminist perspectives.
Julia Kristeva
A comprehensive examination of Kristeva's work from the seventies to the nineties.
Without a Woman to Read
A philosophical questioning of reading and writing that focuses on metaphors of women and women's roles in our cultural and intellectual heritage.
Sisters in Solitude
Provides the first English translation of the Tibetan and Chinese texts on monastic discipline for Buddhist nuns and presents a comparative study of the two texts. An important contribution for studies of women’s history, feminist philosophy, women’s studies, women in religion, and feminist ethics.