Offers an engaging introduction to the history of feminist philosophy, from Mary Wollstonecraft to Sojourner Truth, and from Simone de Beauvoir to feminist theorists of the 1970s. In complex and lucid prose, Nye then moves through the major contemporary fields in philosophy---logic, ethics, epistemology, philosophy of language, and political theory---in order to demonstrate the ways in which contemporary feminist thought is challenging basic presuppositions...