FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON THE HUMAN BEING / HUMAN NATURE (BODY, MIND, SELF): COGNITIVE SCIENCE / PHILOSOPHY OF MIND / PSYCHOLOGY / PHILOSOPHY OF THE SELF

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FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON THE HUMAN BEING: BODY, MIND, SELF
(COGNITIVE SCIENCE / PHILOSOPHY OF MIND / PSYCHOLOGY)

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Feminist Perspectives on Race and Post-Coloniality

ASSOCIATIONS

CONFERENCES

Femininity and Embodiment, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, May 15–16, 2007
Agency and Embodiment, CSWIP, Dalhousie University, Mount Saint Vincent University, Saint Mary's University and the University of King's College, September 30–October 2, 2005
Gender, the Body, and Objectification, Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield, May 21-22, 2005
Menstruation: Blood, Body, Brand, University of Liverpool, January 24-26, 2003

COURSES

JOURNALS

PERSONS

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Anthologies:
- Body:
  - Arthurs, Jane, and Jean Grimshaw, eds. Women's Bodies: Cultural Representation and Identity. London: Cassell, 1999.
  - Balsamo, Anne Marie. Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women. Durham: Duke UP, 1996.
  - Entwistle, Joanne. The Fashioned Body: Fashion, Dress and Modern Social Theory. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.
  - Schiebinger, Londa, ed. Feminism and the Body. Oxford: OUP, 2000.
- Mind:
  - Antony, Louise M., and Charlotte Witt, eds. A Mind of One's Own: Feminist Essays in Reason and Objectivity. Boulder: Westview, 1993.
  - Belenky, Mary, Blythe Clinchy, Nancy Goldberger, and Jill Tarule, eds. Women's Ways of Knowing: the Development of Self, Voice, and Mind. New York: Basic, 1986.
  - Harvey, Elizabeth D., and Kathleen Okruhlik, eds. Women and Reason. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan P, 1992.
  - Threadgold, Terry, and Ann Cranny-Francis, eds. Feminine-Masculine Representation. London: Allen and Unwin, 1991.
  - Tuana, Nancy, and Susan Morgen, eds. Engendering Rationalities. Albany: SUNY Press, 2001.
- Psychology:
  - Burman, Erica, ed. Deconstructing Feminist Psychology. London: Sage, 1998.
  - Burman, Erica, ed. Feminists and Psychological Practice. London: Sage, 1990.
- Self:
  - Benstock, Shari, ed. The Private Self: Theory and Practice of Women's Autobiography. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1988.
  - Brodzki, Bella, and Celeste Schenck, eds. Life / Lines: Theorising Women's Autobiography. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1988.
  - Freedman, Diane P., Olivia Frey, and Frances Murphy Zauhar, eds. The Intimate Critique: Autobiographical Literary Criticism. Durham: Duke UP, 1993.
  - Meyers, Diana Tietjens, and Allison Jaggar, eds. Feminists Rethink the Self. Boulder: Westview, 1997.
  - Stanton, Donna C, ed. The Female Autograph: Theory and Practice of Autobiography from the Tenth to the Twentieth Century. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1987.
Selected Individual Works:
- Body:
  - Gatens, Moira. Imaginary Bodies: Ethics, Power, and Corporeality. London: Routledge, 1996.
  - Grosz, Elizabeth. Volatile Bodies: Towards a Corporeal Feminism. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1994.
  - Kukla, Rebecca. Mass Hysteria: Medicine, Culture, and Mothers' Bodies. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005.
  - Weiss, Gail. Body Images: Embodiment as Intercorporeality. London: Routledge, 1999.
- Mind:
  - Alcoff, Linda. "Is the Feminist Critique of Reason Rational?" Philosophical Topics 23.2 (1995). 1-26.
  - Atherton, Margaret. “Cartesian Reason, Gendered Reason.” A Mind of One's Own. Ed. Louise M. Antony and Charlotte Witt. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1993. 21-37.
  - Chesler, Phyllis. Woman and Madness. 1972. Rev. Ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
  - James, Susan. "Feminism in Philosophy of Mind." Cambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy. Ed. Miranda Fricker and Jennifer Hornsby. Cambridge: CUP, 2000.
  - Lloyd, Genevieve. "Maleness, Metaphor and the 'Crisis' of Reason." Feminist Social Thought: a Reader. Ed. Diana Meyers. London: Routledge, 1997. 288-301.
  - Rooney, Phyllis. "Gendered Reason: Sex, Metaphor and Conceptions of Reason." Hypatia 6:2 (1991): 77-103.
  - Rooney, Phyllis. "Recent Work in Feminist Discussions of Reason." American Philosophical Quarterly 31.1 (1994): .
  - Wilson, Elizabeth. Neural Geographies: Feminism and the Microstructure of Cognition. London: Routledge, 1998.
- Psychology:
- Self:
  - Antony, Louise M. “‘Human Nature’ and its Role in Feminist Theory.” Philosophy in a Feminist Voice: Critiques and Reconstructions. Ed. Janet A. Kourany. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1998. 63-91.
  - Cavarero, Adriana. Relating Narratives: Storytelling and Selfhood.
  - Fuss, Diana. Essentially Speaking: Feminism, Nature, Difference. London: Routledge, 1989.
  - Gedalof, Irene. "Identity in Transit: Nomads, Cyborgs and Women." European Journal of Women’s Studies 7 (2000): 337–354.
  - Gedalof, Irene. Against Purity: Rethinking Identity with Indian and Western Feminisms. London: Routledge, 1999.
  - Griffiths, Morvenna. Feminisms and the Self: the Web of Identity. London: Routledge, 1995.
  - Gunn, Janet. Autobiography: Towards a Poetic of Experience. Philadelphia: U of Philadelphia P, 1982.
  - Jaggar, Allison. Feminist Politics and Human Nature. Totowa: Rowman and Allenheld, 1983.
  - James, Susan. "Feminism in Philosophy of Mind: the Question of Personal Identity." The Cambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy. Ed. Miranda Fricker and Jennifer Hornsby. Cambridge: CUP, 2000. 29-48.
  - Linden, Robin Ruth. Making Stories, Making Selves. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1992.
  - McNay, Lois. Gender and Agency: Reconfiguring the Subject in Feminist and Social Theory. London: Polity, 2000.
  - Meyers, Diana T. Self, Society, and Personal Choice. New York: Columbia UP, 1989.
  - Meyers, Diana Tietjens. Subjection and Subjectivity. London: Routledge, 1994.
  - Nelson, Hilde. Damaged Identities, Narrative Repair. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2001.
  - Nye, Andrea. "'Am I That Name?' The Subject of Philosophy." Philosophy and Feminism: at the Border. 47-81.
  - Perreault, Jeanne. Writing Selves. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1995.
  - Probyn, Elspeth. Sexing the Self: Gendered Positions in Cultural Studies. London: Routledge, 1993.
  - Riley. Denise. 'Am I That Name?' Feminism and the Category of 'Woman' in History. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1988.
  - Robinson, Sally. Engendering the Subject. Albany: SUNY Press, 1991.
  - Tuana, Nancy. The Less Noble Sex: Scientific, Religious, and Philosophical Conceptions of Woman's Nature. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1993.
  - Weir, Allison. Sacrificial Logics: Feminist Theory and the Critique of Identity. London: Routledge, 1996.

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Anthologies:
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Selected Individual Works:
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- Psychology:
  - Appignanesi, Lisa. Mad, Bad and Sad: a History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present.
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On-Line:

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Mind:
Psychology:
Self:
- Meyers, Diana Tietjens: Feminist Perspectives on the Self (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy):
  - Comprehensive Bibliography of Feminist Perspectives on the Self

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