Susan Hekman is Professor of Political Science and Director of Graduate Humanities at the University of Texas at Arlington. She is author of Private Selves, Public Identities and The Future of Differences.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The First Settlement: Philosophy of Science2. The Second Settlement: Analytic Philosophy3. The Third Settlement: Foucault—We Have Never Been Postmodern4. The Fourth Settlement: Feminism—From Epistemology to Ontology5. From Construction to Disclosure: Ontology and the SocialNotesReferencesIndex

"This is a truly feminist book in the best sense; it does not simply adopt, or abandon, paradigms but engages with what's worth saving. It is a genuinely new way of thinking about the relation between matter and science."—Claire Colebrook, University of Edinburgh"There is no other existing book that does exactly what Hekman does here, which is work across a very broad and diverse range of fields and figures to draw together the best of what's out there rethinking the relationship between the material and the linguistic."—Shannon Sullivan, Penn State University