A Companion to Feminist Philosophy

This title is one of a series which offers a wide ranging and authoritative survey of philosophy as a whole, each volume providing a collection of essays which cover the leading figures, terms, topics and problems of the field. This particular volume is of particular interest as it departs from the conventional philosophic divisions such as ethics, aesthetics, or metaphysics, to concentrate on an area which only began to develop in the 1970s as one branch of the women’s studies movement. Like women’s studies in other disciplines, feminist philosophy started out with the goal of ending the invisibility of women...