Feminist Interpretations of René Descartes
360 pages | 6 x 9 | 1999
ISBN 978-0-271-01857-7 | cloth: $83.00 sh
ISBN 978-0-271-01858-4 | paper: $27.00 sh
Re-Reading the Canon Series
A re-reading of the Cartesian corpus from the multiple vantage points of contemporary feminism.
"This is a superb collection that will expand the parameters of debate over Descartes's legacy for a long time to come. It includes discussions of multiple themes: the implications of Descartes's epistemology for feminists and feminist epistemology, the implications of his metaphysics for social constructions of women, the historical context of his intellectual relations with women, an exploration of reasons why his female critics have been so erased from contemporary history of philosophy, and others." —Linda Martín Alcoff, Syracuse University
Contributors are Susan Bordo, Stanley Clarke, Erica Harth, Leslie Heywood, Luce Irigaray, Genevieve Lloyd, Mario Moussa, Eileen O'Neill, Adrianna Paliyenko, Ruth Perry, Mario Sáenz, Karl Stern, Thomas Wartenberg, and James Winders.
Susan Bordo is the Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities at the University of Kentucky and is the author of several books, including Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body (California, 1993) and Twilight Zones: The Hidden Life of Cultural Images from Plato to O.J. (California, 1997).