Women and Values: Readings in Recent Feminist Philosophy

1. Feminist Theory and Practice. Women Do Theory, Jane Flax. Have We Got a Theory for You! Feminist Theory, Cultural Imperialism, and the Demand for 'The Woman's Voice', Maria C. Lugones and Elizabeth V. Spelman. 2. Women's Nature and Women's Values. Theories of Sex Difference, Caroline Whitbeck. Do Women Have a Distinct Nature? Nancy Holmstrom. Towards a New Consciousness, Gloria Anzaldua. The Laugh of the Medusa, Helene Cixous. 3. Social Philosophy. The Culture of Romance, Shulamith Firestone. Against Marriage and Motherhood, Claudia Card. Maternal Thinking, Sara Ruddick. The Future of Mothering: Reproductive Technology and Feminist Theory, Anne Donchin. Prostitution, Alison M. Jaggar. Rewriting the Prostitute Body, Shannon Bell. 4. Political Philosophy. Lesbians in Revolt, Charlotte Bunch. Some Reflections on Separatism and Power, Marilyn Frye. Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power, Sandra Bartky. Mammies, Matriarchs, and Other Controlling Images, Patricia Hill Collings. The Gender Closet: Lesbian Disappearance Under the Sign 'Women', Cheshire Calhoun. 5. Philosophy of Law. On Being the Object of Property, Patricia J. Williams. Women in the Public Domain: Sexual Harassment and Date Rape, Andrea Dworkin. Pornography, Oppression, and Freedom: A Closer Look, Helen E. Longino. Rape: The All-American Crime, Susan Griffin. Rape: On Coercion and Consent, Catharine A. MacKinnon. 6. Philosophy of Religion. The Qualitative Leap Beyond Patriarchal Religion, Mary Daly. Why Women Need the Goddess: Phenomenological, Psychological, and Political Reflections,Carol P. Christ. Womanist Theology: Black Women's Voices, Deloress Williams. 7. Philosophy of Art. Is the Gaze Male? E. Ann Kaplan. Oppressive Texts, Resisting Readers, and the Gendered Spectator: The 'New' Aesthetics, Mary Devereaux. Toward a Butch-Femme Aesthetic, Sue-Ellen Case. Commitment from the Mirror-Writing Box, Trinh T. Minh-ha. 8. Feminist Ethics. On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion, Mary Anne Warren. Moral Revolution, Kathryn Pyne Addelson. Abortion Through a Feminist Ethics Lens, Susan Sherwin. In a Different Voice: Women's Conceptions of Self and of Morality, Carol Gilligan. Ethics from the Standpoint of Women, Nel Noddings. Women and Caring: What Can Feminists Learn About Morality From Caring, Joan C. Tronto. Lesbian Ethics: Beginning Remarks, Sara Lucia Hoagland. Moral Wisdom in the Black Women's Literary Tradition, Katie G. Cannon. Each Sex Must Have Its Own Rights, Luce Irigaray. Contributors.