ABSTRACT

In Feminist Challenges, new and established scholars demonstrate the application of feminism in a range of academic disciplines including history, philosophy, politics, and sociology. As Carole Pateman notes in her introduction, ‘all the contributors raise some extremely far-reaching questions about the conventional assumptions and methods of contemporary social and political inquiry.’

chapter |10 pages

Introduction

The theoretical subversiveness of feminism

part |50 pages

The Challenge to Theory

chapter |17 pages

Ethics revisited

Women and/in philosophy

part |82 pages

The Challenge to Academia

chapter |19 pages

Philosophy, subjectivity and the body

Kristeva and Irigaray

chapter |13 pages

Simone de Beauvoir

Philosophy and/or the Female Body

chapter |17 pages

Evidence and silence

Feminism and the limits of history

chapter |15 pages

Conclusion

What is feminist theory?