Modern Engendering: Critical Feminist Readings in Modern Western Philosophy

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Preface ix
• Introduction - Bat-Ami Bar on xi
• Notes xvii
• Part One - Beginnings: Descartes 1
• The Cartesian Masculinization of Thought and the Seventeenth-Century Flight from the Feminine 3
• Part Two - Themes of Modernity: the English Tradition 25
• Locke's Epistemology and Women's Struggles 27
• Notes 47
• Indians, Savages, Peasants and Women: Hume's Aesthetics 51
• A Feminist Use for Hume's Moral Ontology 69
• Part Three - Themes of Modernity: the Continental Tradition 93
• Women and Rousseau's Democratic Theory: Philosopher Monsters and Authoritarian Equality 95
• Women in Kantian Ethics: A Failure in Universality 117
• Rereading the Canon: Kantian Purity and the Suppression of Eros 127
• Kant's Immature Imagination 141
• Hegel's Theoretical Violence 155
• Hegel, Antigone, and the Possibility of a Woman's Dialectic 167
• Part Four - Critics of Modernity 183
• Marx and the Ideology of Gender: A Paradox of Praxis and Nature 185
• Who is Nietzsche's Woman? 201
• Nietzschean Debris: Ruth as Circe 219
• Nietzsche's Psychology of Gender Difference 231
• Interaction in a World of Chance: John Dewey's Theory of Inquiry 247
• Interaction in a World of Chance: John Dewey's Theory of Inquiry 247
• Suggestions for Further Reading 267
• Contributors 271
• Index 275

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