Out from the Shadows: Analytical Feminist Contributions to Traditional Philosophy (Studies in Feminist Philosophy)

__Out 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. Content: Preface 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 "Out 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."--Page 4 de la couverture This collection draws together 18 mostly new papers on topics in standard areas of traditional analytical philosophy written from a feminist perspective. It aims to bring out from the shadows traditional philosophy by challenging it in a constructive, socially critical way that is essential for philosophy's fundamental goal of pursuing truth that matters.