Organized around nine traditional "types" of feminist philosophy, this book stimulates readers to explore many new pathways of understanding how different feminist perspective weaves together elements of theory, reinterpretation, and application.

Preface -- Credits -- Introduction -- Liberal Feminist Perspectives -- The Sexual Politics of the New Right: Understanding the "Crisis of Liberalism" for the 1980s -- Early Liberal Roots of Feminism: John Locke and the Attack on Patriarchy -- The Moral Significance of Birth -- Marxist Feminist Perspectives -- The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism -- Reproducing Marxist Man -- The Family as the Locus of Gender, Class, and Political Struggle: The Example of Housework -- Radical Feminist Perspectives -- Sexuality, Pornography, and Method: "Pleasure Under Patriarchy" -- To Be and Be Seen: The Politics of Reality -- Moral Revolution: From Antagonism to Cooperation -- Psychoanalytic Feminist Perspectives -- Family Structure and Feminine Personality -- Political Philosophy and the Patriarchal Unconscious: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Epistemology and Metaphysics -- Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Heterosexual Imperative -- Socialist Feminist Perspectives -- Life Without Father: Reconsidering Socialist-Feminist Theory -- What's Critical About Critical Theory? The Case of Habermas and Gender -- The Politics of Socialist Feminism -- Anarcha Feminist and Ecological Feminist Perspectives -- Anarchism and Feminism -- Healing the Wounds: Feminism, Ecology, and Nature/Culture Dualism -- Bureaucracy and Public Life: The Femininization of the Polity -- Phenomenological Feminist Perspectives -- Toward a Phenomenology of Feminist Consciousness -- Pregnant Embodiment: Subjectivity and Alienation -- Breast Cancer: Power Versus Prosthesis -- Postmodern Feminist Perspectives -- Cultural Feminism Versus Post-Structuralism: The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory -- Sorcerer Love: A Reading of Plato's Symposium, Diotima's Speech -- Reading the Slender Body -- Perspectives on the Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender -- Have We Got a Theory for You! Feminist Theory, Cultural Imperialism and the Demand for "The Woman's Voice" -- Race, Class, and Psychoanalysis? Opening Questions -- The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought