With philosophy so steeped in patriarchal tradition how is it possible for feminists to work within it? In this volume, 13 feminist theorists discuss whether traditional ideals of objectivity and rationality should be given a place within the committed feminist view of philosophy and the world.

Antony, Louise | Witt, Charlotte

Preface to the Second Edition -- Introduction -- History of Philosophy -- Feminism and Aristotle's Rational Ideal -- Cartesian Reason and Gendered Reason -- Hume: The Reflective Women's Epistemologist? -- Could It Be Worth Thinking about Kant on Sex and Marriage? -- Maleness, Metaphor, and the "Crisis" of Reason -- Epistemology -- Essential Tensions- Phase Two: Feminist, Philosophical, and Social Studies of Science -- Quine as Feminist: The Radical Import of Naturalized Epistemology -- The Politics of Credibility -- Though This Be Method, yet There is Madness in It: Paranoia and Liberal Epistemology -- Metaphysics -- On Being Objective and Being Objectified -- Generalizing Gender: Reason and Essence in the Legal Thought of Catharine Mackinnon -- Mackinnon's Critique of Objectivity -- Feminist Metaphysics -- Resurrecting Embodiment: Toward a Feminist Materialism -- Social and Political Philosophy -- Feminist Contractarianism -- Should Feminists Reject Rational Choice Theory? -- Rational Choice Theory and the Lessons of Feminism -- Minds of Their Own: Choices, Autonomy, Cultural Practices, and Other Women