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Book SynopsisWe rely on two different conceptions of morality. On the one hand, we think of morality as a correct action guide. Morality is accessed by taking up a critical, reflective point of view where our concern is with identifying the moral rules that would be the focus of the requiring activities of persons in a hypothetical social world whose participants were capable of accessing the justifications for everyone''s endorsing just this set of rules. On the other hand, in doing virtually anything connected with morality--making demands, offering excuses, justifying choices, expressing moral attitudes, getting uptake on our resentments, and the like-we rely on social practices of morality and shared moral understandings that make our moral activities and attitudes intelligible to others. This second conception of morality, unlike the first, is not shaped by the aim of getting it right or the contrast between correct and merely supposed moral requirements. It is shaped by the moral aim of practicing morality with others within an actual, not merely hypothetical, scheme of social cooperation. If practices based on misguided moral norms seem not to be genuine morality under the first conception, merely hypothetical practices seem not to be the genuine article under the second conception. The premise of this book, which collects together nine previously published essay and a new introduction, is that both conceptions are indispensable. But exactly how is the moral theorist to go about working simultaneously with two such different conceptions of morality? The book''s project is not to construct an overarching methodology for handling the two conceptions of morality. Instead, it is to provide case studies of that work being done.Trade ReviewThis collection of previously published essays by Cheshire Calhoun, with an original introduction, supplies an absorbing assemblage of some well-known and some lesser-known essays that hang together remarkably well. The overall effect is that of a robust and provocative approach to ethical theory, in a form that will appeal to readers of nonideal theory and readers of feminist ethical work ... The meta-philosophical strengths of the whole move me to recommend it to anyone in moral philosophy; I particularly recommend the book to scholars of nonideal theory who may find it easy to forget that past work in feminist philosophy offers some of the best models of nonidealizing methodology. * Kathryn J. Norlock, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ; Preface ; Introduction ; I Critical Morality and Social Norms ; 1 Moral Failure ; 2 An Apology for Moral Shame ; II Reaching, Relying On, and Contesting Social Consensus on Moral Norms ; 3 The Virtue of Civility ; 4 Common Decency ; 5 Standing for Something ; III Conventionalized Wrongdoing ; 6 Kant and Compliance with Conventionalized Injustice ; 7 Responsibility and Reproach ; IV Telling Moral Stories for Others ; 8 Emotional Work ; 9 Changing One's Heart ; Bibliography ; Index

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Book SynopsisWhat does it mean for men to join with women as allies in preventing sexual assault and domestic violence? Based on life history interviews with men and women anti-violence activists aged 22 to 70, Some Men explores the strains and tensions of men''s work as feminist allies. When feminist women began to mobilize against rape and domestic violence, setting up shelters and rape crisis centers, a few men asked what they could do to help. They were directed upstream, and told to talk to the men with the goal of preventing future acts of violence. This is a book about men who took this charge seriously, committing themselves to working with boys and men to stop violence, and to change the definition of what it means to be a man. The book examines the experiences of three generational cohorts: a movement cohort of men who engaged with anti-violence work in the 1970s and early 1980s, during the height of the feminist anti-violence mobilizations; a bridge cohort who engaged with anti-violence Trade ReviewIn the last four decades or so, there has grown up a diverse activist community of men who understand that feminism is their movement, too - not only because they support daughters, wives, mothers and co-workers, but because they see violence against females as a normalization of all violence, and a powerful way of limiting men's full humanity, too. If you want to meet them, learn more and hope more, you'll find them in the pages of Some Men, a practical, readable, inspiring guide to a crucial, growing, yet rarely reported American movement. * Gloria Steinem *Some Men is a splendid book. Authors Messner, Greenberg and Peretz combine moving narrative, careful research, and sharp analysis. Their book tells in depth the story of those American men who have worked to end rape, domestic violence, and other forms of men's violence against women. Tracing the complex relations with changing feminism, and the intense debates, failures and successes of three generations of activist men, this is vividly-written contemporary history from which everyone concerned with gender justice can learn. * Raewyn Connell, Author of Masculinities and Confronting Equality *For more than 40 years, a growing tribe of males has been making an exodus from the desert of conventional manhood. The remarkable journeys of a number of them are recounted in this inspiring chronicle of the profeminist men's movement. Some Men is sure to stir the hearts of anyone championing a world where men denounce violence against women and advocate for the liberation of men. * Rob Okun, Editor of the anthology, VOICE MALE: The Untold Story of the Profeminist Men's Movement *In this moving book, the authors provide insight into the hearts and minds of men who took seriously the feminist call by making lifetime commitments as allies in the movement to end violence against women. A stellar book that is carefully grounded in the history of the feminist and anti-violence movements, it is a must-read not only for students and scholars of gender, masculinity, feminism, and the anti-violence movement, but also for policy-makers and activists working toward ending gender-based violence. * Verta Taylor, Professor Sociology and Feminist Studies, University of California Santa Barbara *Table of ContentsList of Figures ; Preface: Men Upstream ; Acknowledgements ; Chapter 1: "This is Men's Work" ; Chapter 2: Diving in: The Movement Cohort, 1970s to 1980s ; Chapter 3: Digging in: The Bridge Cohort, mid-1980s to 1990s ; Chapter 4: Plugging in: The Professional Cohort, mid-1990s to Present ; Chapter 5: Earning your Ally Badge: Men, Feminism, and Accountability ; Chapter 6: Conclusion: Men, Feminism, and Social Justice ; Appendix 1: List of interviewees with demographic descriptors ; Appendix 2: The Author's Moments of Engagement ; Notes ; List of References ; Index

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Book SynopsisAysha Hidayatullah presents the first comprehensive analysis of contemporary feminist interpretations of the Quran. Synthesizing prominent feminist readings of the Quran in the United States since the late twentieth century, she provides an essential introduction to this nascent field of Qur''anic scholarship and engages in a deep investigationas well as a radical critiqueof its methods and approaches. With a particular focus on feminist impasses in the Quranic text, she argues that many feminist interpretations rely on claims about feminist justice that are not fully supported by the text, and she proposes a major revision to their exegetical foundations. A provocative work of Muslim feminist theology, Feminist Edges of the Quran is a vital intervention in urgent conversations about women and the Quran.Trade Reviewforays into scriptural interpretation, analyzes and critiques their assumptions and methods, and proposes strategies for moving past the aporias generated by existing exegetical approaches. Combining historical explication, lucid analysis, and theologically constructive critique, Feminist Edges of the Quran is a landmark contribution to scholarship and a must-read for anyone interested in gender, authority, and Islam. * Kecia Ali, author of Sexual Ethics and Islam *This book is a comprehensive introduction to the American Islamic feminist debate. * Dorieke Molenaar, Sehepunkte *Table of ContentsPreface ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction ; Part I: Historical Emergence of Feminist Qur'anic Interpretation ; Chapter 1: History of Tafsir ; Chapter 2: The Frames of Feminism ; Chapter 3: Relationships to Co-Religionists and the State ; Part II: Three Interpretive Methods of Feminist Qur'anic Interpretation ; Chapter 4: Historical Contextualization Method ; Chapter 5: Intra-Textual Method ; Chapter 6: The Tawhidic Paradigm ; Part III: Critiques of Feminist Qur'anic Interpretation ; Chapter 7: Initial Conclusions ; Chapter 8: A Critical Reassessment ; Chapter 9: Confronting Feminist Edges ; Appendix of Qur'anic Verses ; Notes ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together essays -- three of them previously unpublished -- on the epistemology, ethics, and politics of memory by the late feminist philosopher Sue Campbell. The essays in Part I diagnose contemporary skepticism about personal memory, and develop an account of good remembering that is better suited to contemporary (reconstructive) theories of memory. Campbell argues that being faithful to the past requires both accuracy and integrity, and is both an epistemic and an ethical achievement. The essays in Part II focus on the activities and practices through which we explore and negotiate the shared significance of our different recollections of the past, and the importance of sharing memory for constituting our identities. Views about self, identity, relation, and responsibility (all influenced by traditions in feminist philosophy) are examined through the lens of Campbell''s relational conception of memory. She argues that remaining faithful to our past sometimes requirTrade ReviewChristine M. Koggel and Rockney Jacobsen's recent editorial work brings together a valuable selection of Sue Campbell's essays on the ethics, politics, and epistemology of remembering ... The two overall themes that make this book a distinguished philosophical contribution to the interdisciplinary study of memory are Campbell's carefully argued points of emphasis on the inherently (socially) embedded nature of recollection and the need for theorizing successful remembering. * Roxana Akhbari, Metapsychology *Table of ContentsPreface ; Editors' Introduction ; Note on Sources ; Author's Introduction: The Second Voice: A Manifesto ; Part I. Our Faithfulness to the Past ; Chapter 1: Models of Minds and Memory Activities ; Chapter 2: Our Faithfulness to the Past: Reconstructing Memory Values ; Chapter 3: Memory, Truth, and the Search for Integrity ; Part II. Memory, Diversity and Solidarity ; Chapter 4: Inside the Frame of the Past: Memory, Diversity, and Solidarity ; Chapter 5: Memory, Reparation, and Relation: Starting in the Right Places ; Chapter 6: Remembering Who We Are: Responsibility and Resistant Identification ; Part III. Remembering for the Future ; Chapter 7: Remembering for the Future: Memory as a Lens on the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission ; Chapter 8: Challenges to Memory in Political Contexts: Recognizing Disrespectful Challenge

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Book SynopsisThe concepts of purity and pollution are fundamental to the worldview reflected in the Hebrew Bible, yet the ways biblical texts apply these concepts to sexual relationships remain largely overlooked. Sexual Pollution in the Hebrew Bible argues that, when applied to sexual relations, pollution language usually reflects a conception of women as sexual property susceptible to being ruined for particular men through contamination by others. In contrast, however, the Holiness legislation of the Pentateuch applies such language to men who engage in transgressive sexual relations, conveying the idea that male bodily purity is a prerequisite for individual and communal holiness. This understanding of sexual pollution, found in Leviticus 18, has a profound impact on later texts. In the book of Ezekiel, it contributes to a broader conception of pollution resulting from Israel''s sins, which bring about the Babylonian exile. In the book of Ezra, it figures in a view of the Israelite community asTrade ReviewNuanced, comprehensively researched, wide-ranging and clearly written, this book clarifies and synthesizes many interrelated issues concerning sex, gender, and ritual impuritywhat the author calls ritual pollution. Employing a cross-cultural psychological approach while well-grounded in the study of the ancient Near East, this study is important not only for biblical scholars, but for anyone interested in feminism, masculinity, gender, and the broad culture of the biblical world. * Marc Zvi Brettler, author of How to Read the Jewis Bible *Within the context of a general discussion of purity and pollution categories in the Hebrew Bible, Feinstein focuses on types of sexual pollution. Her rigorous and full analysis provides considerable clarity about the many obscurities in the system and in the texts she analyzes in detail. A major contribution. * Michael D. Coogan, editor, The New Oxford Annotated Bible *Eve Feinstein rightly claims that the concepts of impurity and pollution, while central to biblical thought, have received inadequate treatment in critical biblical scholarship. Her work represents a noteworthy advance, clarifying and refining the understanding of the topic with special attention to the problematic relationship between purity/impurity and sexuality. In her meticulous examination of relevant texts, she rejects simplistic moralizing and psychologizing solutions in favor of a sophisticated analysis that is attuned to the Bibles gender politics and respectful of both chronological development and the ideological diversity of the sources. * Alan Cooper, Elaine Ravich Professor of Jewish Studies and Provost, Jewish Theological Seminary *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Purity and Pollution Ideas in the Hebrew Bible ; 3. Sexual Pollution of Women ; 4. Leviticus 18 and Sexual Pollution of Men ; 5. The Legacy of Leviticus 18 in the Hebrew Bible ; 6. Conclusion ; Appendices

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Book SynopsisIn this monograph Janet A. Kourany argues for a philosophy of science more socially engaged and socially responsible than the philosophy of science we have now, a philosophy of science that can help to promote a science more socially engaged and socially responsible than the science we have now. The central questions feminist scientists, philosophers, and historians have been raising about science during the last three decades form Kourany''s point of departure and her response to these questions builds on their insights. This way of approaching science differs from mainstream philosophy of science in two crucial respects: it locates science within its wider societal context rather than treating science as if it existed in a social, political, and economic vacuum; and it points the way to a more comprehensive understanding of scientific rationality, one that integrates the ethical with the epistemic. Kourany develops her particular response, dubbed by her the ideal of socially responsiTrade ReviewKouranys ease with the history and (particularly 20th-century) philosophy of science allow her to fill the pages of her book with an impressive breadth and diversity of examples ... Kouranys generally optimistic approach creates an interesting and fruitful tension ... This is an excellent introduction to philosophy of science as a challenged and challenging terrain, and a rallying call for the return, or proliferation, of the public intellectual. * Anna Mudde, Philosophy in Review *Table of ContentsREFERENCES; INDEX

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Book SynopsisWomen and other oppressed and deprived people sometimes collude with the forces that perpetuate injustice against them. Women''s acceptance of their lesser claim on household resources like food, their positive attitudes toward clitoridectemy and infibulations, their acquiescence to violence at the hands of their husbands, and their sometimes fatalistic attitudes toward their own poverty or suffering are all examples of adaptive preferences, wherein women participate in their own deprivation. Adaptive Preferences and Women''s Empowerment offers a definition of adaptive preference and a moral framework for responding to adaptive preferences in development practice. Khader defines adaptive preferences as deficits in the capacity to lead a flourishing human life that are causally related to deprivation and argues that public institutions should conduct deliberative interventions to transform the adaptive preferences of deprived people. She insists that people with adaptive preferences canTrade ReviewSerene J. Khader offers a thorough, insightful, and well-constructed account of APs that offers a fresh perspective on this debate. ... Khaders book is very insightful, with clear definitions, and convincing argumentation. She advances greatly the philosophical conversation by offering a more nuanced version of APs and re-situating them in terms of flourishing rather than autonomy. Furthermore, her practical recommendations are especially promising for development practitioners. * Social Theory and Practice *Filling an important gap in the literature, Serene J. Khader's first book deftly tackles a topic of growing importance as questions of individual human rights, agency and empowerment increasingly run up against questions of multiculturalism in development policy and pluralism in ethics ... this work makes an exhaustive analysis of a difficult and important problem, offering both practical and philosophical guidance for thinking about adaptive preferences. It is an important contribution to studies in which questions of multiculturalism and moral relativism complicate the search for answers. Khader's book also contributes to this discussion by reclaiming the dignity, empowerment, and sense of self-worth of individual women who exhibit inappropriately adaptive preferences, an important move in a discourse that ultimately seeks improvement of the human condition. * Stacy J. Kosko, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities *Table of ContentsCONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; ADAPTIVE PREFERENCES AND GLOBAL JUSTICE

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Book SynopsisAudre Lorde was not only a famous poet; she was also one of the most important radical black feminists of the past century. Her writings and speeches grappled with an impressive broad list of topics, including sexuality, race, gender, class, disease, the arts, parenting, and resistance, and they have served as a transformative and important foundation for theorists and activists in considering questions of power and social justice. Lorde embraced difference, and at each turn she emphasized the importance of using it to build shared strength among marginalized communities. I Am Your Sister is a collection of Lorde''s non-fiction prose, written between 1976 and 1990, and it introduces new perspectives on the depth and range of Lorde''s intellectual interests and her commitments to progressive social change. Presented here, for the first time in print, is a major body of Lorde''s speeches and essays, along with the complete text of A Burst of Light and Lorde''s landmark prose works Sister Outsider and The Cancer Journals. Together, these writings reveal Lorde''s commitment to a radical course of thought and action, situating her works within the women''s, gay and lesbian, and African American Civil Rights movements. They also place her within a continuum of black feminists, from Sojourner Truth, to Anna Julia Cooper, Amy Jacques Garvey, Lorraine Hansberry, and Patricia Hill Collins. I Am Your Sister concludes with personal reflections from Alice Walker, Gloria Joseph, Johnnetta Betsch Cole, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, and bell hooks on Lorde''s political and social commitments and the indelibility of her writings for all who are committed to a more equitable society.Trade ReviewThis book, clearly a labor of love by three colleagues who also call themselves friends, meets its objectives and more...This invaluable collections enables us to hear Lorde's voice again and to use the life lessons she shared with us. * Women's Review of Books *A thorough survey, to say the least...I Am Your Sister reveals Lorde's legacy anew. * Bitch Magazine *The editors of this abundant feast of a book remind us of the importance of Audre Lorde's work, which for 40 years has served as a foundation and catalyst for questions of identity, difference, power and social justice. There is much to ponder, discuss, teach and revere in this compilation. * Ms. Magazine *I Am Your Sister is a collection for those who want and need to be introduced to Audre Lorde's thinking, and it is a great anthology for those who have read and been inspired by Lorde's writing all of their lives...a celebration, an honoring, and a thoughtful presentation of who Lorde was...an eye opener to how the struggles of past times continue to be what we grapple with today...a tool for survival--a teacher to help us realize our possibilities for change. * Feminist Review *I Am Your Sister combines some of Lorde's most powerful essays with previously unavailable writings, as well as reflections on her work from other influential artists and activists. * Southern Voice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Create Your Own Fire: Audre Lorde and the Tradition of Black Radical Thought, Rudolph P. Byrd ; Part I: From Sister Outsider and A Burst of Light ; 1. The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action ; 2. Sexism: An American Disease in Blackface ; 3. Sadomasochism: Not About Condemnation: An Interview with Audre Lorde, Susan Leigh Star ; 4. I Am Your Sister: Black Women Organizing Across Sexualities ; 5. Apartheid U.S.A. ; 6. Turning the Beat Around: Lesbian Parenting 1986 ; 7. A Burst of Light: Living with Cancer ; Part II: My Words Will Be There ; 8. Eva's Man by Gayl Jones: A Review ; 9. Self-Defi nition and My Poetry ; 10. Introduction: Movement in Black by Pat Parker ; 11. My Words Will Be There ; 12. Foreword to the English Edition of Farbe bekennen: Afro-deutsche Frauen auf den Spuren ihrer Geschichte ; 13. Preface to a New Edition of Need: A Chorale for Black Woman Voices ; 14. Poet as Teacher-Human as Poet-Teacher as Human ; 15. Poetry Makes Something Happen ; 16. My Mother's Mortar ; Part III: Difference and Survival ; 17. Difference and Survival: An Address at Hunter College ; 18. The First Black Feminist Retreat: July 6, 1977 ; 19. When Will the Ignorance End? Keynote Speech at the National Third World Gay and Lesbian Conference, ; October 13, 1979 ; 20. An Address Delivered as Part of the "Litany of Commitment" at the March on Washington, August 27, 1983 ; 21. Commencement Address: Oberlin College, May 29, 1989 ; 22. There Is No Hierarchy of Oppression ; 23. What Is at Stake in Lesbian and Gay Publishing Today: The Bill Whitehead Award Ceremony, 1990 ; 24. Is Your Hair Still Political? ; Part IV: Reflections ; 25. Audre Lorde: My Shero, My Teacher, My Sister Friend, Johnnetta Betsch Cole ; 26. Audre's Voice, Alice Walker ; 27. Lorde: The Imagination of Justice, bell hooks ; 28. Remembering Audre Lorde, Gloria I. Joseph ; Epilogue. Bearing Witness: The Legacy of Audre Lorde, Beverly Guy-Sheftall ; Contributors ; Selected Bibliography ; Chronology

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Book SynopsisOut from the Shadows showcases the work of 18 analytical feminists from a variety of traditional areas of philosophy: social and political philosophy, normative ethics, virtue theory, metaethics, philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of science. The collection is unique both in its focus on analytical feminism and in its breadth across the subdisciplines within philosophy. The book highlights successful uses of concepts and approaches from traditional philosophy, and illustrates the contributions that feminist approaches have made and could make to the analysis of issues in key areas of traditional philosophy, while also demonstrating that traditional philosophy ignores feminist insights and feminist critiques of traditional philosophy at its own peril.Table of ContentsPreface ; Introduction ; 1. Resistance Is (Not) Futile: Analytical Feminism's Relation to Political Philosophy, Ann E. Cudd ; 2. A Feminist, Kantian Conception of the Right to Bodily Integrity: The Cases of Abortion and Homosexuality, Helga Varden ; 3. Autonomy in Relation, Andrea Westlund ; 4. Critical Character Theory: Toward a Feminist Perspective on 'Vice' (and 'Virtue'), Robin S. Dillon ; 5. Modesty as a Feminist Sexual Virtue, Anne Barnhill ; 6. Standards of Rationality and the Challenge of the Moral Skeptic, Anita M. Superson ; 7. Constructivism and Feminism, Julia Driver ; 8. Politically Significant Terms and the Philosophy of Language: Methodological Issues, Jennifer Saul ; 9. Illocution and Expectations of Being Heard, Maura Tumulty ; 10. Is There A 'Feminist' Philosophy of Language?, Louise Antony ; 11. Silence and Institutional Prejudice, Miranda Fricker ; 12. Knowing Moral Agents: Epistemic Dependence and the Moral Realm, Heidi E. Grasswick ; 13. What is Distinctive about Feminist Epistemology at 25?, Phyllis Rooney ; 14. Uses of Value Judgments in Science: A General Argument, with Lessons from a Case Study of Feminist Research on Divorce, Elizabeth Anderson ; 15. The Analytic Tradition, Radical (Feminist) Interpretation, and the Hygiene Hypothesis, Sharyn Clough ; 16. The Web of Valief: An Assessment of Feminist Radical Empiricism, Miriam Solomon ; 17. Self-Constructions: An Existentialist Approach to Self and Social Identity, Mariam Thalos ; 18. Who Is Included? Intersectionality, Metaphors, and the Multiplicity of Gender, Ann Garry

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the epistemic side of racial and sexual oppression. It elucidates how social insensitivities and imposed silences prevent members of different groups from listening to each other.Trade ReviewJose Medina has written an original book which masterfully combines continental and American traditions and which addresses important topics in contemporary social and political philosophy, showing why we should pay more attention to the epistemic dimension of our everyday interactions. * Roberto Frega, European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy *This book breaks new ground in linking epistemology with social and political concerns, still a relatively new area of interface in philosophy. Most of the serious epistemology that has done this linking to date is in feminist epistemology, which Medina draws on as a resource. He then goes on to develop a highly general, inclusive, and broad account that addresses oppression in its most general terms. Going beyond critique he develops a positive reconstruction that usefully addresses both the social and the individual changes that need to be made in knowing practices, and provides a new and very helpful vocabulary for describing and understanding the patterns of epistemic injustice. This is one of the most important works of epistemology and radical social theory in a long time. * Linda Alcoff, Professor of Philosophy, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center *The social epistemology developed in recent decades represents a welcome advance on the dead-end of Cartesian individualism. But the social has too often been conceived of without centering social oppression, and all the noetic complexities that come with it. In this richly detailed and wide-ranging text, Jose Medina locates the epistemological project squarely where it belongs: in societies of privilege, subordination, and radical group differentiation. Drawing on feminism, critical race theory, and queer theory, he shows with unprecedented thoroughness that we need to develop the cognitive virtues necessary to overcome active ignorance, epistemic injustice, and structural group insensitivity in sum, the problems not of a conveniently sanitized epistemic 'Twin-Earth' but the disordered world in which we all actually live. * Charles Mills, John Evans Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy. Department of Philosophy, Northwestern University *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ; Foreword: Insensitivity and Blindness ; Introduction. Resistance, Democratic Sensibilities, and the Cultivation of Perplexity ; A. The Importance of Dissent and the Imperative of Epistemic Interaction ; B. Resistance, Perplexity, and Multiperspectivalism ; C. Overview ; Chapter 1. Active Ignorance, Epistemic Others, and Epistemic Friction ; 1.1. Active Ignorance and the Epistemic Vices of the Privileged ; 1.2. Lucidity and the Epistemic Virtues of the Oppressed ; 1.3. Resistance, Epistemic Responsibility, and the Regulative Principles of Epistemic Friction ; Chapter 2. Resistance as Epistemic Vice and as Epistemic Virtue ; 2.1. The Excess of Epistemic Authority and the Resulting Insensitivity ; 2.1.1. Epistemic Justice as Interactive, Comparative and Contrastive ; 2.1.2. Differential Authority, Systematic Injustice, and the Social Imaginary ; 2.2. The Vice of Avoiding Epistemic Friction, Hermeneuticalal Injustice, and the Problem of Meta-Blindness. ; 2.3. Striving for Open-Mindedness: Epistemic Friction and Epistemic Counterpoints as Correctives of Meta-Blindness ; Chapter 3. Imposed Silences and Shared Hermeneutical Responsibilities ; 3.1. Silences and the Communicative Approach to Epistemic Injustice ; 3.2. Communicative Pluralism and Hermeneutical Injustice ; 3.3. Our Hermeneutical Responsibilities with respect to Multiple Publics ; Chapter 4. Epistemic Responsibility and Culpable Ignorance ; 4.1. Responsible Agency, Knowledge/Ignorance, and Social Injustice ; 4.2. Betraying One's Responsibilities under Conditions of Oppression: Social Contextuality, Interconnectedness, and Culpable Ignorance ; 4.2.A. Pig Heads, Burning Crosses, and Car keys ; 4.2.B. The Social Division of Cognitive Laziness ; 4.2.C. Blindness to Differences ; 4.2.D. Blindness to Social Relationality and the Relevance Dilemma ; 4.3. Overlapping Insensitivities, Culture-Blaming, and Gender Violence against Third-World Women ; Chapter 5. Meta-Lucidity, Epistemic Heroes, and the Everyday Struggle Toward Epistemic Justice ; 5.1. Living Up to One's Responsibilities under Conditions of Oppression: Meta-Lucidity ; 5.2. Promoting Lucidity and Social Change ; 5.3. Echoing: Chained Action, "Epistemic Heroes", and Social Networks ; 5.3.1. Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: Epistemic Courage, Critical Imagination and Epistemic Friction ; 5.3.2. Rosa Parks: Counter-Performativity, Chained Agency, and Social Networks ; Chapter 6. Resistant Imagination and Radical Solidarity ; 6.1. Pluralistic Communities of Resistence ; 6.2. Normative Pluralism and Radical Solidarity ; 6.3. Epistemic Friction and Insurrectionary Genealogies ; 6.4. Guerrilla Pluralism, Counter-Memories, and Epistemologies of Ignorance ; 6.5. Resistant Imaginations: Toward a Kaleidoscopic Social Sensibility ; 6.6. Conclusion: Network Solidarity ; Coda ; References

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Book SynopsisThis collection of new essays examines philosophical issues at the intersection of feminism and autonomy studies. Are autonomy and independence useful goals for women and subordinate persons? Is autonomy possible in contexts of social subordination? Is the pursuit of desires that issue from patriarchal norms consistent with autonomous agency? How do emotions and caring relate to autonomous deliberation? Contributors to this collection answer these questions and others, advancing central debates in autonomy theory by examining basic components, normative commitments, and applications of conceptions of autonomy. Several chapters look at the conditions necessary for autonomous agency and at the role that values and norms -- such as independence, equality, inclusivity, self-respect, care and femininity -- play in feminist theories of autonomy. Whereas some contributing authors focus on dimensions of autonomy that are internal to the mind -- such as deliberative reflection, desires, cares, Trade ReviewThis new volume in the Studies in Feminist Philosophy series tackles issues at the intersection of social, political, economic, and feminist theory and philosophy ... It continues the debate about how to define these terms within the conditions faced by individuals, particularly women. Recommended. * Choice *Table of Contents1. Introduction ; Andrea Veltman and Mark Piper ; I. Autonomy and Independence ; 2. Three Dimensions of Autonomy: A Relational Analysis ; Catriona Mackenzie ; 3. Relational Autonomy and Independence ; Marilyn Friedman ; 4. Autonomy? Or Freedom? A Return to Psychoanalytic Theory ; Nancy Hirschmann ; II. Autonomy and Normative Commitments ; 5. Feminist Commitments and Relational Autonomy ; Paul Benson ; 6. The Feminist Debate over Values in Autonomy Theory ; Diana Tietjens Meyers ; 7. A Commitment to Autonomy Is a Commitment to Feminism ; Marina Oshana ; III. Autonomy, Reasons, and Care ; 8. Emotions, Reasons and Autonomy ; Christine Tappolet ; 9. Autonomy and Self-Care ; Andrea Westlund ; IV. Autonomy, Oppression and Adaptive Preferences ; 10. Coping or Oppression: Autonomy and Adaptation to Circumstance ; John Christman ; 11. Autonomy and Adaptive Preference Formation ; Natalie Stoljar ; V. Autonomy in Social Contexts ; 12. Raising Daughters: Autonomy, Feminism and Gender Socialization ; Mark Piper ; 13. Autonomy and Oppression at Work ; Andrea Veltman ; 14. The Right to Bodily Autonomy and the Abortion Controversy ; Anita Superson ; 15. Autonomy and Ableism ; Anita Ho

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Book SynopsisAfter 9/11/2001, gendered narratives of humiliation and revenge proliferated in the U.S. national imaginary. How is it that gender, which we commonly take to be a structure at the heart of individual identity, is also at stake in the life of the nation? What do we learn about gender when we pay attention to how it moves and circulates between the lived experience of the subject and the aspirations of the nation in war? What is the relation between national sovereignty and sovereign masculinity? Through examining practices of torture, extra-judicial assassination, and first person accounts of soldiers on the ground, Bonnie Mann develops a new theory of gender. It is neither a natural essence nor merely a social construct. Gender is first and foremost an operation of justification which binds the lived existence of the individual subject to the aspirations of the regime.Inspired by a reexamination of the work of Simone de Beauvoir, the author exposes how sovereign masculinity hinges on tTrade Reviewrichly textured philosophical study * Susan James, Times Higher Education *What does gender do in the life of a nation? In this splendidly written and passionately engaged book, Mann traces out how sovereign masculinity, committed to a vision of itself as invulnerable and self justifying, has created a framework to conduct a war that on moral and rational grounds is against the best interests of the soldiers who fight the war, the citizens who support the war, and to democratic institutions and practices themselves. Ranging over discussions from Simone de Beauvoir and phenomenology to the political and cultural representations of war and torture, Mann probes how gender operates both in the innermost space of its citizens and in the aspirations of national manhood. A fresh and critical feminist engagement with the gendered lessons of the war on terror, Sovereign Masculinity deserves a wide readership. * Robin May Schott, Senior Researcher, Danish Institute for International Studies *This book is a must read for those who want to understand the complexity and nuance of sovereign masculinityThere is a lot of heart in this book, and I am a little envious of the way in which Mann mixes the scholarly with her passionate activism. It is just the kind of book that is sorely needed in a badly broken world. Mann has left me with a whole host of questions, as well as provided me with invaluable points of critical clarification, inspiration, and, definitely, a gender lesson. * Amanullah De Sondy, Journal of the Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World *Mann's insightful contributions welcome updating of the analyses of gender and gendering processes, gendered politics, and gendered violence. * Bat-Ami Bar On, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy *Table of ContentsPreface ; Chapter 1 Introduction: Strange Cousins ; Prologue: Justifications ; Chapter 2 Invitation ; Chapter 3 Beauvoir ; Chapter 4 History ; I: Style ; Chapter 5 Aesthetic ; Chapter 6 Recognition ; Chapter 7 Woman ; II: Imaginary ; Chapter 8 Imaginary ; Chapter 9 Shame ; Chapter 10 Redemption ; III: Frame ; Chapter 11 Existence ; Chapter 12 Home ; Chapter 13 Father ; IV: Apparatus ; Chapter 14 Shock and Awe ; Chapter 15 Institution ; Chapter 16 Torture ; Conclusion ; Chapter 17 Conclusion: Permanent State of Exception

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Book SynopsisGender is not a 'security issue', but it tells us a lot about how, why and when certain subjects are written as security concerns. Thirteen case studies on violent subjects, reason, and emotion demonstrate different ways in which we understand political violence, security, resistance, power, and agency, and how we make sense of gender.Trade Review'Gender, agency and political violence is a thought-provoking contribution to feminist debates around issues of political violence, agency/resistance and conflict resolution...The volume is an invaluable contribution to existing scholarship, providing both new empirical insights and novel methods for understanding the gendered nature of violence, both in its perpetration and subsequent (re)interpretations.' - Maria O'Reilly, King's College London, PeacebuildingTable of ContentsRethinking Gender, Agency and Political Violence; L.J.Shepherd PART I: VIOLENT SUBJECTS Masculinity, Militarism and Popular Culture: The Warrior Superhero in Hollywood; L.Crowe Masculinities, Pain and Power: Gendering Experiences of Truth Sharing in Northern Ireland; L.White (Re)Masculinizing Security? Gender and Private Military and Security Companies; J.Joachim & A.Schneiker The Gender of Resistance: A Case Study Approach to Thinking about Gender in Violent Resistance Movements; G.Gonzalez, M.Kimmel, F.Malekahmadi & J.Tyagi PART II: REASON/RATIONALITY Power and Gendered Rationality in Western Epistemic Constructions of Female Suicide Bombings; T.Narozhna Assassins, Virgins, Scholars: Epistemologies and Geopolitics in Scholarly Knowledge on Suicide Bombing; C.Brunner From Snipers to Suicide Attacks: Exploring the Representations and Realities of Conflict in the Northern Caucasus; C.Moore Gendered Agency in Contested Truths: The Case of Hyunhee Kim (KAL858); S.Park-Kang PART III: EMOTION/EMOTIONALITY Ungendering the Links between Emotions and Violence: Towards a Political Appreciation of Empathy and Compassion; E.Hutchison & R.Bleiker Confusion, Fear, Disgust: Emotional Communication in Representations of Female Agency in Political Violence; L.Åhäll Heartfelt Positivity as an Orthogonal Approach to Gender, Agency and Political Violence: Reading Stormheart; E.Penttinen

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Book Synopsis''Satisfyingly dark, cleverly plotted and pleasingly Donna Tarttish'' Emma Flint, Little Deaths''Seamlessly blends Gone Girl and Promising Young Woman. Smart, sophisticated, seductive'' S J Watson, Before I Go To Sleep''A deeply compelling story of friendships turned rotten'' Rosemary Hennigan, The Truth Will Out*Sunday Times Bestseller**Shortlisted for the Bloody Scotland Crime Debut of the Year 2023**Longlisted for the McIlvanney Prize**Top Ten eBook bestseller**One of Cosmopolitan''s Best Books for 2023**One of Apple''s Best of the Month**One of FT''s Best New Debut Fiction**Heat Book of the Week*------Clare arrives at the University of Edinburgh with a secret. This is her chance for a blank slate: to find the right people and reinvent herself.And then she meets Tabitha.Tabitha is charismatic, beautiful and intimidatingly wealthy. Soon Clare iTrade ReviewSeamlessly blends Gone Girl and Promising Young Woman. Smart, sophisticated, seductive' -- S J Watson, Before I Go To SleepSatisfyingly dark, cleverly plotted and pleasingly Donna Tarttish -- Emma Flint, Little DeathsPerfect for fans of dark academia stories like The Secret History and If We Were Villains -- CosmopolitanDarwent has a great career as a thriller writer ahead of her' -- Sunday Times

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Book SynopsisIntegrating perspectives of evolutionary biology and social anthropology within a Marxist framework, the author rejects the assumption that human culture is an extension of primate behaviour and argues that it is the product of a social, sexual and political revolution spearheaded by women.Table of ContentsAnthropology and origins; Levi-Strauss and "the mind"; totemism as exchange; the sex-strike; origins theories in the 1980s; the problem of the killer ape; between blood, stone, and fire; solidarity and cycles; the revolution; ice-age rhythms; the hunter's moon; the raw and the cooked; the rule of men; the dragon within.

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Book SynopsisWeaving together careful readings of plays and reviews, memoirs and interviews, biographies and critical essays, Acting Like a Woman in Modern Japan traces the emergence of the first generation of modern actresses in Japan, a nation in which male actors had long dominated the public stage.Trade Review'A sophisticated analysis of the relationship between the 'new theater,' the 'new woman,' the new nation, and the new empire in turn of the twentieth-century Japan, engagingly told through the stories of the two actresses who pioneered women (rather than men) playing women's roles on the Japanese stage. A meaningful and mesmerizing book.' - Carol Gluck, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsPART I: SETTING THE STAGE Acting Like a Woman Modern Formations of Gender and Performance PART II: KAWAKAMI SADAYAKKO Wifeing the Woman Straightening the Theater Reproducing the Empire PART III: MATSUI SUMAKO A New Woman A New Theater Feminists and Femmes Fatales Epilogue: Revealing the Real Body

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Book SynopsisHere, the author examines four Old Testament narratives of suffering in ancient Israel: Hagar, Tamar, an unnamed concubine and the daughter of Jephthah. The stories prompt much reflection on contemporary misuse of the Bible, and therefore have considerable relevance in modern times.

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Trade Review"The greatest theological challenge we currently face is how to witness with passionate integrity to losses that cannot be healed and suffering that does not go away. This brave and inspiring collection teaches us to attend both to the intense particularity of trauma and the way trauma is structured in collective relationships. It creates a space for the Spirit’s ‘new making’ in contexts that lie beyond repair." -- Heather Walton, University of Glasgow, UK

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Book SynopsisNo one can understand how feminism has evolved without reading this radical, inflammatory second-wave landmark. Naomi WolfOriginally published in 1970, when Shulamith Firestone was just twenty-five years old, and going on to become a bestseller, The Dialectic of Sex was the first book of the women''s liberation movement to put forth a feminist theory of politics.Beginning with a look at the radical and grassroots history of the first wave (with its foundation in the abolition movement of the time), Firestone documents its major victory, the granting of the vote to women in 1920, and the fifty years of ridicule that followed. She goes on to deftly synthesize the work of Freud, Marx, de Beauvoir, and Engels to create a cogent argument for feminist revolution. Identifying women as a caste, she declares that they must seize the means of reproductionfor as long as women (and only women) are required to bear and rear children, they will be singled out as infe

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Book SynopsisA funny, fresh, and moving antidote to conventional attitudes about sex and the single woman

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was an instant success, turning its thirty-three-year-old author into a minor celebrity. A pioneering work of early feminism that extends to women the Enlightenment principle of the rights of man, its argument remains as relevant today as it was for Woll-stonecraft''s contemporaries. Mary Wollstonecraft was not the first writer to call for women to receive a real, challenging education, writes Katha Pollitt in the new Introduction. But she was the first to connect the education of women to the transformation of women''s social position, of relations between the sexes, and even of society itself. She was the first to argue that women''s intellectual equality would and should have actual consequences. The winds of change sweep through her pages. This classic work of early feminism remains as relevant and passionate today as it was for Wollstonecraft''s contemporaries. This edition includes new e

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Book SynopsisExamining mothers of newly diagnosed disabled children within the context of new reproductive technologies and the discourse of choice, this book uses anthropology and disability studies to revise the concept of normal and to establish a social environment in which the expression of full lives will prevail.Trade Review"I think the audience for this book would be very wide from interested lay persons to medical anthropologists/sociologists. Also this is an important topic for medical professionals and public health scholars. It does offer a critical perspective as well – which does not dominate the book - but is very important for many scholars. I also think it is highly readable and would be of interest to students – upper level undergraduates to graduate students (for example I would use this book in my Medical anthropology course - 300 level)." Michael J. Oldani, Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, WhitewaterTable of Contents1: Introduction 2: Doing Everything Right: Choice, Control and Mother Blame 3: Diminished Motherhood 4: Mothers, Doctors and Developmental Delays: On Personhood and the Emplotment of Children’s Lives 5: The Child as Giver: Mothers’ Critique of the Commodification of Babies 6: Mothers, Models, and Disability Rights

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Book SynopsisMother''s Milk examines why nursing a baby is an ideologically charged experience in contemporary culture. Drawing upon medical studies, feminist scholarship, anthropological literature, and an intimate knowledge of breastfeeding itself, Bernice Hausman demonstrates what is at stake in mothers'' infant feeding choices--economically, socially, and in terms of women''s rights. Breastfeeding controversies, she argues, reveal social tensions around the meaning of women''s bodies, the authority of science, and the value of maternity in American culture. A provocative and multi-faceted work, Mother''s Milk will be of interest to anyone concerned with the politics of women''s embodiment.Trade Review"Hausman's book is in the best tradition of cultural studies, readings of different sorts of cultural texts to make a series of important points about the issue of breastfeeding in the current American cultural climate." -- Lillian S. Robinson, Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia UniversityTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Dead Babies 2. Rational Management 3. Breast Is Best 4. Stone Age Mothering 5. Womanly Arts 6. Breastfeeding, Feminism, Activism Epilogue: Lactation and Sexual Difference Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisA feminist critique of the accounts of "Being" found in some of the key texts of existentialism and phenomenology, in particular Sartre, Levinas and Merleau-Ponty. Knowing the other as beloved is intimately related to a changing perception of the other of the cosmos.Table of ContentsPrologue; the wedding between the body and language; daughter and woman; to perceive the invisible in you; the love to the point of safeguarding you; I announce to you that we are different; to conceive silence; between us, a fabricated world; she before the king; each transcendant to the other; how can I touch you if you are not there?; a mystery which illuminates.

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Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER • The award-winning author of We Should All Be Feminists and Americanah gives us this powerful statement about feminism today—written as a letter to a friend.A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a childhood friend, a new mother who wanted to know how to raise her baby girl to be a feminist. Dear Ijeawele is Adichie’s letter of response: fifteen invaluable suggestions—direct, wryly funny, and perceptive—for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman. Filled with compassionate guidance and advice, it gets right to the heart of sexual politics in the twenty-first century, and starts a new and urgently needed conversation about what it really means to be a woman today.A Skimm Reads Pick ● An NPR Best Book of the Year

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Book SynopsisThe powerful story of the women who founded and ran the legendary Chicago reproductive rights organization Abortion Counseling Service, otherwise known as Jane, written by one of its members. A compelling testament to a woman's most essential freedom—control over her own body—and to the power of women helping women. • Also the subject of the acclaimed HBO documentary The Janes. The Story of Jane recounts the evolution of the Abortion Counseling Service, code name Jane, the underground group of heroic women that provided low-cost abortion services in Chicago in the years before the procedure was legalized. Organized in 1969 and active until the opening of the first legal abortion clinics in 1973, Jane initially counseled women and referred them to abortion providers who set prices and conditions. As Jane grew, so did the group's capacity to protect its clients. Eventually, determined to reclaim women's reproductive power in any way they were able, many members of Jane learned to perform abortions themselves.   An extraordinary history by one of Jane's members, The Story of Jane is an urgent account of the organization's development, the conflicts within the group, and the impact its work had on both the women it helped and the members themselves.

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Book Synopsis#1 GLOBAL BESTSELLER WITH MORE THAN 8 MILLION COPIES SOLD • Meet Elizabeth Zott: “a gifted research chemist, absurdly self-assured and immune to social convention” (The Washington Post) in 1960s California whose career takes a detour when she becomes the unlikely star of a beloved TV cooking show. • STREAM ON APPLE TV+This novel is “irresistible, satisfying and full of fuel” (The New York Times Book Review) and “witty, sometimes hilarious...the Catch-22 of early feminism” (Stephen King, via Twitter).A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, Oprah Daily, Entertainment Weekly, Newsweek Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with—of all things—her mind. True chemistry results. But like science, life is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother, but the reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. Elizabeth’s unusual approach to cooking (“combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride”) proves revolutionary. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn’t just teaching women to cook. She’s daring them to change the status quo.  Laugh-out-loud funny, shrewdly observant, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist.

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