Bücher der Reihe Thinking Gender

Draws on the experience of daily life to unmask the many disguises by which intimations of inferiority are visited upon women. This book critiques both the male bias of theory and the debilitating dominion held by notions of "proper femininity" over women and their bodies in patriarchal culture.

A volume bringing together key contributions to the extensive debate surrounding Carol Gilligan's controversial work on gender differences in moral decision-making. It includes an essay by Gilligan herself, in response to some of her critics.

This text aims to provide a broad introduction to issues in feminist theory for classicists, and at the same time, to provide feminists with an introduction to feminist work on antiquity.

This volume presents a debate between four of the top feminist theorists in the US, discussing the key questions facing contemporary feminist theory, responding to each other, and distinguishing their views from others.

Discussing the notions of nation, identity and tradition, this text shows how Western and Third World scholars have misrepresented Third World cultures and feminist agendas. It examines the underlying problems which "culture" poses for the respect of difference and cross-cultural understanding.

The author argues contemporary culture is in an "age of epidemic"; AIDS has provoked discussion of the disease but also seen a growth in sites of erotic danger. She traces the effects of epidemic on the intensification and augmentation of regulatory mechanisms for the control of sexuality.

Feminism/Postmodernism asks - is a postmodern feminist politics possible? Contributors consider issues such as the nature of personal and social identity, and the consequence of changing work and family relations on women's lives.

This is the first collection by influential feminist theorists to focus on the heart of traditional epistemology, dealing with such issues as the nature of knowledge and objectivity from a gender perspective.

Arguing that a Foucauldian feminism is possible, Sawicki rejects the view that the power of the phallocentric is total. Instead, like Foucault, she sees discouse as ambiguous and a source of conflict.

A reassessment of the concepts and institutions of modern liberal democracy in the light of postmodern theory and the politics of difference.

Offers an account of moral subjectivity and moral reflection to meet the needs of feminism and other emancipatory movements, and argues that impartial reason - which has dominated 20th-century Anglo-American philosophy and judicial reasoning - is inadequate for addressing real world injustices.

Shrage explores the moral premises of a critically self-aware and robust feminist sexual politics, focusing on the issues of prostitution and abortion to develop an interpretive and pluralist approach to feminist ethics.

Scheman argues that the concerns of philosophy emerge not from the universal human condition, but from the conditions of privilege. Her book attempts to decipher the encoded privilege in philosophers' pictures of "our" relations to the world while exploring pictures accountable to a different "us".

This volume considers how thinkers including Simone de Beauvoir, Julia Kristeva, Nancy Choderow and Adrienne Rich struggle to negotiate the dilemma of difference in analyzing mothering, encompassing the paradoxes concerning embodiment, gender and representation they encounter.

The 18 contributors to this book use personal narrative to show ways that men's lives can shape their approaches to teaching and practicing feminism and to convey the opportunities and challenges involved in integrating feminism into men's lives.