Product Description: This exciting new collection features original essays by outstanding feminist theorists including Sally Haslanger, Marilyn Frye and Linda Alcoff. It is the first collection of articles addressing metaphysical issues from a specifically feminist perspective.

Product Description: "As a social and legal institution of family formation, and as a personal experience of members of the adoption triad, adoption provides a fresh vantage point on an important set of philosophical and feminist issues. The family is often thought to be the basic and natural form of social life for human beings; adoption, however, highlights the powerful role that law and politics play in shaping families and our ideas about families...read more

Product Description: A book of tremendous influence when it first appeared, A Mind of One's Own reminded readers that the tradition of Western philosophy-- in particular, the ideals of reason and objectivity-- has come down to us from white males, nearly all of whom are demonstrably sexist, even misogynist...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Examines Aristotle's philosophy concerning sensible substances and compares his work with modern essentialism