Is Feminist Philosophy — Philosophy? — See bers Mal ON ASS ol Parole OSStO Pe HEY ee PetinleOlRRO ORRTS Ya ? Northwestern University Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Founding Editor TJames M. Edie General Editors John McCumber David Michael Levin Consulting Editors Robert Bernasconi J. N. Mohanty Judith P. Butler tMaurice Natanson David Carr Graeme Nicholson Edward S. Casey Frederick Olafson Stanley Cavell Paul Ricoeur Roderick M. Chisholm Tom Rockmore Hubert L. Dreyfus George Schrader Lester E. Embree Calvin O. Schrag Dagfinn Fgllesdal Thomas Sheehan Véronique Foti Hugh J. Silverman lrene Harvey Robert Sokolowski Dieter Henrich tHerbert Spiegelberg Don |hde Charles Taylor tEmmanuel Levinas Samuel J. Todes Alphonso Lingis Bruce W. Wilshire William McBride David Wood A i’ bh O nBNe EN LS ole Le iMLILITeNs|s a k De =] i Pin LOOSrr i nh BN oe PAL ALO) SO) Pink ve 4 Edited by Emanuela Bianchi Northwestern University Press Evanston, Illinois Northwestern University Press Evanston, Illinois 60208-4210 Compilation copyright © 1999 by Northwestern University Press. Published 1999. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America ISBN 0-8101-1594-8 (cloth) ISBN 0-8101-1595-6 (paper) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Is feminist philosophy philosophy? / edited by Emanuela Bianchi p- cm.—(Northwestern University studies in phenomenology and exis- tential philosophy) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-8101-1594-8 (cloth : alk. paper)—ISBN 0-8101-1595-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Feminist theory. 2. Feminism—Philosophy. I. Bianchi, Emanuela. II. Northwestern University studies in phenomenology & existential philosophy. HQ1190.177 1999 305.42'01—dc21 99-046794 CIP The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. For my mother, Lorenza Bianchi Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2022 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/isfeministphilosOO00unse