Feminist metaphysics : explorations in the ontology of sex, gender and the self

Author(s)

• Witt, Charlotte

Bibliographic Information

Feminist metaphysics : explorations in the ontology of sex, gender and the self

Charlotte Witt, editor

（Feminist philosophy collection）

Springer, c2011

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The present volume is an exciting new collection of original essays by outstanding feminist theorists including Sally Haslanger, Marilyn Frye and Linda Alcoff. Feminist Metaphysics is the first collection of articles addressing metaphysical issues from a feminist perspective. The essays cover central feminist topics including: the ontology of sex and gender, persons, identity and subjectivity, and the relations among experience, ideology and reality. Many of the papers combine cutting-edge feminist theory with contemporary metaphysics and the philosophy of language. The volume is also distinctive in including articles representing both analytic and continental perspectives on metaphysics. The essays are philosophically sophisticated and are primarily intended for a professional audience of philosophers and feminist theorists.

Table of Contents

• Notes on Contributors.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction
• Charlotte Witt.- Part I: The Ontology of Sex and Gender.- 1. What is Gender Essentialism?
• Charlotte Witt.- 2. Different Women: Gender and the Realism/Nominalism Debate
• Natalie Stoljar.- 3. The Metaphysics of Sex and Gender
• Asta Kristjana Sveinsdottir.- 4. Ontological Commitments, Sex and Gender
• Mari Mikkola.- 5. The Metaphors of Being a
• Marilyn Frye.- Part II: Persons and Subjectivity.- 6. The Metaphysics of Relational Autonomy
• Jules Holroyd.- 7. Beauvoir and the Allure of Self-Objectification
• Nancy Bauer.- 8. A Phenomenology of Sexual Difference: Types, Styles and Persons
• Sara Heinamaa.- Part III: Power, Ideology and Reality.- 9. The Politics and Metaphysics of Experience
• Marianne Janack.- 10. Ideology, Generics, and Common Ground
• Sally Haslanger.- 11. Experience and Knowledge: The Case of Sexual Abuse Memories
• Linda Alcoff.- Index.

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Details

• NCID: BB04819507
• ISBN:
  • 9789048137824
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Dordrecht
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 232 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC22 : 110
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Metaphysics
  • LCSH : Feminist theory
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB00803855