Published in 2006
275 pages
Catherine Villanueva Gardner, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies, is the Director of the Office of Faculty Development –she is also the Director of the Women’s Studies Program. Her areas of research interest include ethics, the history of women philosophers, feminist history of philosophy, and ecofeminism. She has also published on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and is the co-principle investigator with Dr. Jeannette E. Riley, Academic Director of Online Learning, Chair of English and Professor of English and Women’s Studies, on a grant studying blended learning funded by the Davis Educational Foundation.
What is this book about?
Having only emerged in the past few decades, Feminist Philosophy is rapidly developing its own thrust in areas of particular importance to feminism –and women more generally– while also reevaluating and reshaping most other fields of philosophy, from ethics to logic and Marxism to environmentalism. It draws not only on feminist philosophers but criticizes, approves, or appropriates the work of the leading philosophers of all times. The introduction to this reference work provides a useful overview of the subject area and the chronology runs the gamut from Ancient Greek philosophers to contemporary feminist ones. The cross-referenced dictionary entries cover both the central figures and ideas from the historical tradition of philosophy, as well as ideas and theories from contemporary feminist philosophy, such as epistemology (the philosophy of science) and topics that have been introduced by the feminist movement itself, like abortion and sexuality. In addition to including entries on Aristotle, Plato, Descartes, Kant, Wollstonecraft, Beauvoir, and Daly, relevant aspects of other fields of philosophy, the major concepts, and prevailing interpretations and conjectures are also covered. A comprehensive bibliography allows for further reading.
