By: Hélène Cixous (Centre de Recherches en Études Féminines at Paris VIII University, France)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745650975, Pub Date US Sep 2012, Pub Date RoW Jun 2012, Pub Date Aus Jun 2012
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745650968, Pub Date US Sep 2012, Pub Date RoW Jun 2012, Pub Date Aus Jun 2012

Description: "I get up every day with one day more," says Eve, the writer's 97-year-old mother. She is escaping into the New Life and the writer must race to ca...

By: Rachel Jones (University of Dundee)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745651057, Pub Date US Apr 2011, Pub Date RoW Mar 2011, Pub Date Aus Mar 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745651040, Pub Date US Apr 2011, Pub Date RoW Mar 2011, Pub Date Aus Mar 2011

Description: The work of French Philosopher Luce Irigaray has exerted a profound influence on feminist thinking of recent decades and provides a far-reaching chal...

By: David West (Australian National University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745645827, Pub Date US Dec 2010, Pub Date RoW Nov 2010, Pub Date Aus Nov 2010
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745645810, Pub Date US Dec 2010, Pub Date RoW Dec 2010, Pub Date Aus Dec 2010

Description: This book is a fully updated and expanded new edition of An Introduction to Continental Philosophy, first published in 1996. It provides a clear, con...

By: Stella Sandford
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745626413, Pub Date US Sep 2010, Pub Date RoW Jul 2010, Pub Date Aus Jul 2010
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745626406, Pub Date US Sep 2010, Pub Date RoW Jul 2010, Pub Date Aus Jul 2010

Description: What does the study of Plato’s dialogues tell us about the modern meaning of ‘sex’? How can recent developments in the philosophy o...

By: Lois McNay (Somerville College, Oxford, UK)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745629322, Pub Date US Feb 2008, Pub Date RoW Dec 2007, Pub Date Aus Dec 2007
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745629315, Pub Date US Mar 2008, Pub Date RoW Dec 2007, Pub Date Aus Dec 2007

Description: The idea of the struggle for recognition features prominently in the work of various thinkers from Charles Taylor and Jurgen Habermas to Axel Honneth...

By: Alison Stone (Lancaster University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745638836, Pub Date US Dec 2007, Pub Date RoW Nov 2007, Pub Date Aus Nov 2007
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745638829, Pub Date US Dec 2007, Pub Date RoW Nov 2007, Pub Date Aus Nov 2007

Description: This is the first book to offer a systematic account of feminist philosophy as a distinctive field of philosophy. The book introduces key issues and ...

By: Moya Lloyd (Loughborough University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745626123, Pub Date US Sep 2007, Pub Date RoW Jul 2007, Pub Date Aus Jul 2007
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745626116, Pub Date US Sep 2007, Pub Date RoW Jul 2007, Pub Date Aus Jul 2007

Description: With the publication of her highly acclaimed and much-cited book Gender Trouble, Judith Butler became one of the most influential feminist theorists ...

By: Elisabeth Badinter and Julia Borossa
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745633817, Pub Date US Mar 2006, Pub Date RoW Feb 2006, Pub Date Aus Feb 2006
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745633800, Pub Date US Mar 2006, Pub Date RoW Feb 2006, Pub Date Aus Feb 2006

Description: In this provocative new book, France’s leading feminist theorist launches a broadside against the way in which feminism has evolved since the 1...

By: Rosi Braidotti (University of Utrecht/Birkbeck College University of London)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745635965, Pub Date US Mar 2006, Pub Date RoW Jan 2006, Pub Date Aus Jan 2006
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745635958, Pub Date US Mar 2006, Pub Date RoW Jan 2006,

Description: This major new book offers a highly original account of ethical and political subjectivity in contemporary culture. It makes a strong case for a non-...

By: David West (Australian National University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745624228, Pub Date US May 2005, Pub Date RoW Mar 2005, Pub Date Aus Mar 2005
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745624211, Pub Date US May 2005, Pub Date RoW Mar 2005, Pub Date Aus Mar 2005

Description: This book traces the genealogy of ideas of reason, self and sexuality in the West, opening the way to a richer and more diverse understanding of sexu...

By: Alessandra Tanesini
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745620756, Pub Date US Sep 2004, Pub Date RoW Jul 2004, Pub Date Aus Jul 2004
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745620749, Pub Date US Sep 2004, Pub Date RoW Jul 2004, Pub Date Aus Jul 2004

Description: In this new book, Alessandra Tanesini demonstrates that feminist thought has a lot to offer to the study of Wittgenstein's philosophical work, and th...

By: Kimberly Hutchings
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745619521, Pub Date US Jan 2003, Pub Date RoW Dec 2002, Pub Date Aus Dec 2002
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745619514, Pub Date US Jan 2003, Pub Date RoW Dec 2002, Pub Date Aus Dec 2002

Description: Hegel and Feminist Philosophy traces the legacy of Hegel in the work of thinkers such as de Beauvoir, Irigaray and Butler, and also in contemporary d...

By: Mary Evans (University of Kent)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745620732, Pub Date US Dec 2002, Pub Date RoW Oct 2002, Pub Date Aus Oct 2002
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745620725, Pub Date US Dec 2002, Pub Date RoW Oct 2002, Pub Date Aus Oct 2002

Description: Since the end of the eighteenth century, the pursuit of 'true love' has been enshrined in the expectations of Western societies. We regard this pursu...

By: Susan Rowland (University of Greenwich)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745625171, Pub Date US Feb 2002, Pub Date RoW Dec 2001, Pub Date Aus Dec 2001
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745625164, Pub Date RoW Dec 2001, Pub Date Aus Dec 2001

Description: Jung: A Feminist Revision explores the relationship between feminist theory and Jungian studies. It combines an original student-friendly introductio...

By: Lois McNay (Somerville College, Oxford)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745613499, Pub Date US Aug 2000, Pub Date RoW May 2000, Pub Date Aus May 2000
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745613482, Pub Date US Aug 2000, Pub Date RoW May 2000, Pub Date Aus May 2000

Description: This book reassesses theories of agency and gender identity against the backdrop of changing relations between men and women in contemporary societie...

By: Mary Evans (University of Kent)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745614762, Pub Date US Jan 1991, Pub Date RoW Apr 2000, Pub Date Aus Apr 2000

Description: This introductory textbook offers a concise and lucid account of the main developments in contemporary feminist thinking, and demonstrates the centra...

By: Susan J. Hekman (University of Texas, Arlington)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745623795, Pub Date US Dec 1999, Pub Date RoW Oct 1999, Pub Date Aus Oct 1999
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745623788, Pub Date US Dec 1999, Pub Date RoW Oct 1999, Pub Date Aus Oct 1999

Description: This key work addresses one of the most central and controversial issues in contemporary feminist theory: the problem of difference....

By: Christine Battersby
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745615554, Pub Date RoW Jan 1998, Pub Date Aus Jan 1998
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745615547, Pub Date RoW Jan 1998, Pub Date Aus Jan 1998

Description: This original book enters the undeveloped territory of feminist metaphysics and offers a bold and unusual contribution to debates about identity, ess...

By: Edward Fullbrook (Freelance writer) and Kate Fullbrook (University of the West of England)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745612034, Pub Date US Feb 1998, Pub Date RoW Dec 1997, Pub Date Aus Dec 1997
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745612027, Pub Date US Feb 1998, Pub Date RoW Dec 1997, Pub Date Aus Dec 1997

Description: This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to Simone de Beauvoir's philosophical thought. Beauvoir has long been recognized as the twent...

By: Susan Sellers (University of St Andrews)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745612553, Pub Date US Apr 1996, Pub Date RoW Feb 1996, Pub Date Aus Feb 1996

Description: This book is a clear and accessible introduction to the writings of Helene Cixous, novelist, dramatist and critic, whose work has had a major impact ...

By: Adriana Cavarero (University of Verona)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745615721, Pub Date RoW Sep 1995, Pub Date Aus Sep 1995

Description: This book makes an important intervention in contemporary feminist theory. Cavarero takes four figures from ancient Greek texts and reinterprets them...

By: Susan J. Hekman (University of Texas, Arlington)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745615028, Pub Date US May 1995, Pub Date RoW Apr 1995, Pub Date Aus Apr 1995

Description: This book is an original discussion of key problems in moral theory. The author argues that the work of recent feminist theorists in this area, parti...

By: Lois McNay (Somerville College, Oxford, UK)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745609393, Pub Date US Nov 1992, Pub Date RoW Oct 1992, Pub Date Aus Oct 1992

Description: This book offers a systematic attempt to explore the point of convergance between feminist theory and the work of Michel Foucault....

By: Seyla Benhabib
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745610597, Pub Date RoW Jun 1992, Pub Date Aus Jun 1992

Description: Focusing on contemporary debates in moral and political theory, Situating the Self argues that a non-relative ethics, binding on us in virtue of out ...

By: Susan Hekman (University of Texas at Arlington, USA.)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745610481, Pub Date US Apr 1992, Pub Date RoW Mar 1992, Pub Date Aus Mar 1992

Description: After the success of the hardback, students and academics will welcome the publication of this book in paperback. The aim of the book is to explore t...

By: Rosi Braidotti (University of Utrecht)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745609126, Pub Date RoW Jun 1991, Pub Date Aus Jun 1991

Description: This book is a brilliant and timely analysis of the complex issues raised by the relation between women and philosophy. It offers a critical account ...