Feminist social thought : a reader / edited by Diana Tietjens Meyers.

Includes bibliographical references.

Acknowledgments -- Feminist Social Thought: A Reader - Editor's Introduction -- 1. Gender, Relation, and Difference in Psychoanalytic Perspective -- 2. Is Male Gender Identity the Cause of Male Domination? -- 3. On Conceiving Motherhood and Sexuality: A Feminist Materialist Approach -- 4. Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: An Agenda for Theory -- 5. Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power -- 6. Excerpt from Gender Trouble -- 7. Social Criticism without Philosophy: An Encounter between Feminism and Postmodernism -- 8. Playfulness, "World"-Travelling, and Loving Perception -- 9. Woman: The One and the Many -- 10. Race, Class, and Psychoanalysis? Opening Questions -- 11. Separating Lesbian Theory from Feminist Theory -- 12. Multiple Jeopardy, Multiple Consciousness: The Context of a Black Feminist Ideology -- 13. Beyond Racism and Misogyny: Black Feminism and 2 Live Crew -- 14. Woman as Metaphor -- 15. Maleness, Metaphor, and the "Crisis" of Reason -- 16. Stabat Mater -- 17. And the One Doesn't Stir Without the Other -- 18. Mirrors and Windows: An Essay on Empty Signs, Pregnant Meanings, and Women's Power -- 19. Though This Be Method, Yet There Is Madness in It: Paranoia and Liberal Epistemology -- 20. Feminism and Objective Interests: The Role of Transformation Experiences in Rational Deliberation -- 21. Love and Knowledge: Emotion in Feminist Epistemology -- 22. Some Reflections on Separatism and Power -- 23. Glancing at Pornography: Recognizing Men -- 24. The Family Romance: A Fin-de-Siecle Tragedy -- 25. The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism -- 26. Sisterhood: Political Solidarity between Women -- 27. A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s -- 28. Feminism, Citizenship, and Radical Democratic Politics -- 29. In a Different Voice: Women's Conceptions of Self and Morality -- 30. Maternal Thinking -- 31. Trust and Antitrust -- 32. Feminism and Moral Theory -- 33. Gender and Moral Luck -- 34. Beyond Caring: The De-Moralization of Gender -- 35. Gender and the Complexity of Moral Voices -- 36. The Equality Crisis: Some Reflections on Culture, Courts, and Feminism -- 37. Reconstructing Sexual Equality -- 38. The Generalized and the Concrete Other: The Kohlberg-Gilligan Controversy and Moral Theory -- 39. Deconstructing Equality-Versus-Difference: Or, the Uses of Poststructuralist Theory for Feminism -- Permissions Acknowledgments.

"Feminist Social Thought brings together key articles by prominent feminist thinkers, offering students sophisticated treatment of the theoretical topics central to feminist social thought. This reader highlights salient concerns in contemporary feminist scholarship and the advances feminist philosophers have made. The editor's introduction outlines alternative routes through the text, allowing instructors to easily adapt this reader to their particular courses and the interests of their students. Each article is prefaced with a short introduction by the editor placing it in context, highlighting the principle issues and the conclusions reached. Students will find these headnotes helpful when tackling the challenging theoretical issues addressed. Representing a spectrum of feminist thinking, Feminist Social Thought is organized around seven topics constructions of gender; theorizing diversity; figurations of women; subjectivity, agency and feminist critique; social identity,; solidarity and political engagement; care and its critics; and women, equality and justice. Students will be exposed to a wide variety of feminist philosophy and encouraged to think critically about challenging questions around pivotal subjects including * How are gender norms instilled, enforced, and perpetuated? * What are the relationships between gender and other socially demarcated positions such as race, class and sexual orientation? * What resources do women have at their disposal for recognizing their subordination and resisting it? * What goals should feminist politics pursue? * How can social and legal equality be reconciled with difference?"--Publisher description.

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