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Women and philosophy : toward a theory of liberation

Title

Women and philosophy : toward a theory of liberation / edited by Carol C. Gould and Marx W. Wartofsky.

Format

Book

Published

New York : Putnam, c1976.

Description

viii, 364 p. ; 22 cm.

Other contributors

Gould, Carol C. Wartofsky, Marx W.

Notes

Includes bibliographical references. "Based on a recent special issue of the quarterly journal, The Philosophical forum, (volume v, nos. 1-2)."

Contents

• 1. Methodological issues: The woman question: philosophy of liberation and the liberation of philosophy / Carol C. Gould
• 2. Historical critique: Anatomy and destiny: the role of biology in Plato's views of women / Anne Dickason
• Theories of sex difference / Caroline Whitbeck
• Biology, sex hormones, and sexism in the 1920s / Diana Long Hall
• Reason and morals in the early feminist movement: Mary Wollstonecraft / Carolyn Korsmeyer
• Holes and slime: sexism in Sartre's psychoanalysis / Margery Collins and Christine Pierce
• 3. Analysis and critique of the present and of contemporary philosophy: There's nobody here but us persons / Robert Paul Wolff
• Women's liberation and human emancipation / Mihailo Marković
• Marx, sex, and the transformation of society / Virginia Held
• On the future of love: Rousseau and the radical feminists / Elizabeth Rapaport
• Exploitation, oppression, and self-sacrifice / Judith Tormey
• Altruism and women's oppression / Larry Blum, Marcia Homiak, Judy Housman, and Naomi Scheman
• On reaction and the women's movement / Hilde Hein
• 4. What is to be done?: ethical and political issues: Feminism: reform or revolution / Sandra Harding
• Referential genderization / Elizabeth Beardsley
• Reverse discrimination and the future / Irving Thalberg
• In defense of preferential hiring / Marlene Gerber Fried
• Some common sense notes on preferential hiring / Mary Vetterling
• Pedagogical arguments for preferential hiring and tenuring of women teachers in the university / Michael Martin
• How do we know when opportunities are equal? / Onora Nell
• Abortion and a woman's right to decide / Alison Jaggar.

Kinsey subjects

Status of women history.

ISBN

0399116524 9780399116520