Discovering reality : feminist perspectives on epistemology, metaphysics, methodology, and philosophy of science / edited by Sandra Harding and Merrill B. Hintikka. - Second edition. - xxxix, 332 pages ; 25 cm. - Synthese library ; v. 161 . - Synthese library v. 161. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages xx-xxi) and index.

Introduction to the Second Edition / Contributor's Notes: 2003 / Introduction / Woman Is Not a Rational Animal: On Aristotle's Biology of Reproduction / Aristotle and the Politicization of the Soul / The Unit of Political Analysis: Our Aristotelian Hangover / Have Only Men Evolved? / Evolution and Patriarchal Myths of Scarcity and Competition / Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Forerunner of a Feminist Social Science / The Trivialization of the Notion of Equality / How Can Language Be Sexist? / A Paradigm of Philosophy: The Adversary Method / The Man of Professional Wisdom / Gender and Science / The Mind's Eye / Individualism and the Objects of Psychology / Political Philosophy and the Patriarchal Unconscious: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Epistemology and Metaphysics / The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism / Why Has the Sex/Gender System Become Visible Only Now? / Sandra Harding -- Sandra Harding -- Sandra Harding and Merrill B. Hintikka -- Lynda Lange -- Elizabeth V. Spelman -- Judith Hicks Stiehm -- Ruth Hubbard -- Michael Gross and Mary Beth Averill -- Ann Palmeri -- Louise Marcil-Lacoste -- Merrill B. Hintikka and Jaakko Hintikka -- Janice Moulton -- Kathryn Pyne Addelson -- Evelyn Fox Keller -- Evelyn Fox Keller and Christine R. Grontkowski -- Naomi Scheman -- Jane Flax -- Nancy C. M. Hartsock -- Sandra Harding.

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