• Acknowledgements


• Introduction


• Part I: Justice


• 1: Women and Cultural Universals


• 2: The Feminist Critique of Liberalism


• 3: Religion and Women's Human Rights


• 4: Judging Other Cultures: The Case of Genital Mutilation


• 5: American Women: Preferences, Feminism, Democracy


• 6: Equity and Mercy


• 7: A Defence of Lesbian and Gay Rights


• Part II: Sex


• 8: Objectification


• 9: Rage and Reason


• 10: Construction Love, Desire, and Care


• 11: "Whether from Reason or Prejudice": Taking Money for Bodily Services


• 12: Platonic Love and Colorado Law


• 13: Sex, Truth, and Solitude


• 14: Sex, Liberty, and Economics


• 15: The Window: Knowledge of Other Minds in Virginia Woolfs's 'To The Lighthouse'

Martha Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. Among her many publications is Love's Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature (OUP 1990).

Writing with the rigorous argument and generous insight that characterizes all her work, Martha Nussbaum in these essays articulates a distinctive conception of feminism, one rooted in the liberal tradition of political thought but responsive to radical feminist critiques of this tradition. Growing out of her years of work with an international development agency connected with the United Nations, the book charts a feminism that is deeply concerned with global justice and with the urgent needs of women who live in hunger and illiteracy, or under inherently unequal legal systems. Clear, timely, and accessible, this collection makes available to a wide audience the incisive political reflections of one of our most important living philosophers.