Visible Women

Susan James is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College,University of London. Stephanie Palmer is a Lecturer in Law at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Girton College.

• Feminism and the politics of difference - or, where have all the women gone?, Anne Phillips; the mother of the legal person, Kristin Savell; can women be legal persons?, Ngaire Naffine; feminism and the promise of human rights - possibilities and paradoxes, Stephanie Palmer; violence, ethics and law - feminist reflections on a familiar dilemma, Nicola Lacey; sexual difference and collective identities the new global constellation, Seyla Benhabib; the politics of "presence" and "difference" -working through Spinoza and Eliot, Moira Gatens; freedom and the imaginary, Susan James.

...the feminism of Visible Women is first and foremost a feminism that seeks to keep women visible, without succumbing to the simplicity of earlier versions of the subject. It is a feminism that is unapologetic in its focus on women, while at the same time, engaging critically with the category itself. And it is a feminism that is unapologetically theoretical. It does not shy away from the critical and intellectual project of rethinking the foundational categories of feminism. Brenda Crossman Adelaide Law Review July 2003