Feminine Subject

Susan Hekman is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Graduate Humanities Program at the University of Texas at Arlington.

• AcknowledgementsChapter 1: Simone De Beauvoir and the Beginnings of The Feminine SubjectChapter 2: Difference I: The “French Feminists”Chapter 3: Difference Ii: Radical Feminism and the Relational SelfChapter 4: Continuing the Tradition: Liberalism and MarxismChapter 5: From Difference to Differences: Postmodernism, Race, Ethnicity, and IntersectionalityChapter 6: The Material SubjectBibliography

Susan Hekman has written a brilliant and much needed book. She encourages contemporary scholars to pursue the radical, boundary-breaking project of bringing ‘woman’ into philosophical traditions and offers a shrewd analysis of what has impeded this project. This accessible book will be of great value to students of feminist philosophy, feminist theory, gender studies, and in fact, anyone who recognizes that the search for ‘woman’ is on-going and continues to evolveCarol Gilligan, New York University Feminist theorists are fortunate that Susan Hekman has written this well-argued book. It will no doubt be read with interest and delight and assigned to students for classes. It is a pleasure to see a mature scholar take account of the field with an engaging thesis.Eloise Buker, Saint Louis UniversityIn The Feminine Subject, Susan Hekman has crafted an original account of feminist theory as a positive cumulative enterprise with discernible lineages to Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex. The intriguing result of this approach, which treats feminist theory as an ‘evolving tradition,’ is a feminism that embraces its differences within, rather than being undone by them.Christine Di Stefano, University of Washington