Yielding Gender: Feminism, Deconstruction and the History of Philosophy

by Penel Deutscher and Deutscher

Book Overview

Traditional accounts of the feminist history of philosophy have viewed reason as associated with masculinity and subsequent debates have been framed by this assumption. Yet recent debates in deconstruction have shown that gender has never been a stable matter. In the history of philosophy 'female' and 'woman' are full of ambiguity. What does deconstruction have to offer feminist criticism of the history of philosophy?
Yielding Gender explores...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415139457
• ISBN13: 9780415139458
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"