Feminist work in the history of philosophy has come of age as an innovative field in the history of philosophy. This volume marks that accomplishment with original essays by leading feminist scholars who ask basic questions: What is distinctive of feminist work in the history of philosophy? Is there a method that is distinctive of feminist historical work? How can women philosophers be meaningfully included in the history of the discipline? Who counts as a philosopher?
This collection is a unique collaboration among philosophers from North America and the Nordic Countries, including papers written from both analytic and continental philosophical perspectives and discussing both ancient and modern philosophers. Feminist Reflections on the History of Philosophy will be of interest to historians of philosophy, feminist theorists, women's studies faculty and students, and humanists interested in canon formation and transformation.

Feminist History of Philosophy.- Identity and Gender in Plato.- Schemes and Scenes of Reading the Timaeus.- Nietzsche's Feminization of Metaphysics and Its Significance for Theories of Gender Difference.- Psychologizing Cartesian Doubt Feminist Reading Strategies and the "Unthought" of Philosophy.- Feminist Rationality Debates Rereading Kant.- Form, Normativity and Gender in Aristotle A Feminist Perspective.- The Soul-Body Union and Sexual Difference from Descartes to Merleau-Ponty and Beauvoir.- The Psychology of Philosophy Interpreting Locke and Hume.- Hume as Man of Reason and Woman's Philosopher.- Descartes and Elisabeth A Philosophical Dialogue?.- Some Thoughts on the Place of Women in Early Modern Philosophy.