Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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978-0-8476-8006-1 • Hardback • September 1995 • $140.00 • (£108.00) - Currently out of stock. Copies will arrive soon.
978-0-8476-8007-8 • Paperback • August 1995 • $54.00 • (£42.00)
Dana E. Bushnell is assistant professor of philosophy at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.
Chapter 1 Introduction: Philosophy and Feminism
Chapter 2 Feminism and Autonomy
Chapter 3 Oppression and Victimization: Choice and Responsibility
Chapter 4 Right-Wing Women: Causes, Choices, and Blaming the Victim
Chapter 5 Sexual Harassment, the Acquiescent Plaintiff and the "Unwelcomeness" Requirement
Chapter 6 Women, Equality, and the Military
Chapter 7 New Reproductive Technologies
Chapter 8 Markets in Women's Reproductive Labor
Chapter 9 Privacy and Reproductive Liberty
Chapter 10 Coerced Birth Control and Sexual Discrimination
Chapter 11 Is IVF Research a Threat to Women's Autonomy?
Chapter 12 To Be or Not Be a Woman: Anorexia Nervosa, Normative Gender Roles, and Feminism
Chapter 13 Women and the Knife: Cosmetic Surgery and the Colonization of Women's Bodies
Chapter 14 Beauty's Punishment: How Feminists Look at Pornography
Chapter 15 Feminine Masochism and the Politics of Personal Transformation
An unusually strong and fresh collection of essays, provocative, well written, varied in philosophical approach and covering an interesting array of important issues.
— Judith Andre, Michigan State University
. . . essays are very well chosen . . . introductory essay is very clear and very basic.
— Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy
The philosophical essays collected in this volume not only offer illuminating perspectives on a variety of practical concerns, many of which are of special interest to younger women, but also provide fresh insight into such perennial philosophical issues as autonomy, choice and responsibility.
— Alison M. Jaggar, University of Colorado, Boulder
Unlike other anthologies in feminist ethics, this book encourages critical thinking about concrete, contemporary social and moral issues. Each engaging, clearly written article is followed by discussion questions, making the book useful for students in introductory as well as upper-level women's studies, philosophy, sociology, and political science courses.