Nagl-Docekal, Herta

Feminist Philosophy - Oxford Westview Press 2004 - 250p

includes index and biblioraphy

1 On the Anthropology of the Sexes 1
Why there is no natural order of the sexes, 1
Corporality as an issue of freedom, 9
Are binary oppositions discriminating speech acts, 15
Cartesianism: A reproach that needs further precision, 18
Sex/Gender: How a long-running debate could come to a conclusion, 22
2 Art and Femininity 41
Art is gendered, 41
Sigmund Freud and the woman artist, 45
Writing with white ink, 58
Feminist aesthetics, 73
3 Reason: A Concept with Connotations of Masculinity 87
One problem, many questions, 87
Rationality and gender blindness in the sciences, 88
Is science founded on aggressive masculinity? 110
The criticism of Western Logos, 116
Is the subject shaped by instrumental reason? 122
Detached emotions, 127
For a Nonessentialist Politics Moral foundations, 133
The feminist we, 141
Women as citizens; or, Why the social contract theory should be reformulated, 152




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