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Feminist Interpretations of René Descartes

Edited by Susan Bordo

1999 | 6 x 9 inches
Political Theory, Feminist Philosophy

Hardback: $71.00 SH
ISBN: 978-0-271-01857-7

Paperback: $24.00 SH
ISBN: 978-0-271-01858-4

Re-Reading the Canon


 

 

 


   

A re-reading of the Cartesian corpus from the multiple vantage points of contemporary feminism.

"This is a superb collection that will expand the parameters of debate over Descartes's legacy for a long time to come. It includes discussions of multiple themes: the implications of Descartes's epistemology for feminists and feminist epistemology, the implications of his metaphysics for social constructions of women, the historical context of his intellectual relations with women, an exploration of reasons why his female critics have been so erased from contemporary history of philosophy, and others."-Linda Martín Alcoff, Syracuse University

Contributors are Susan Bordo, Stanley Clarke, Erica Harth, Leslie Heywood, Luce Irigaray, Genevieve Lloyd, Mario Moussa, Eileen O'Neill, Adrianna Paliyenko, Ruth Perry, Mario S‡enz, Karl Stern, Thomas Wartenberg, and James Winders.

 

   
Susan Bordo is the Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities at the University of Kentucky and is the author of several books, including Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body (California, 1993) and Twilight Zones: The Hidden Life of Cultural Images from Plato to O.J. (California, 1997).