Jennifer Hockenbery

Thinking Woman (eBook, ePUB)

A Philosophical Approach to the Quandary of Gender

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What does it mean to be a woman? Do women have a unique nature and a unique vocation? Should feminists work to help women specifically or to support all people? Thinking Woman examines the lives and ideas of women in the history of philosophy who wished to understand and advocate for themselves as women. Some, like Hildegard of Bingen and Edith Stein, found women to be a unique creature designed by God, necessary for good stewardship of creation. Others, such as Mary Wollstonecraft and Sojourner Truth, found women to be identical to men in all but biology and thus identical before the law. Still others, from Simone de Beauvoir to Judith Butler, found the very question troubling as they tried to sort out cultural ideas from biological rules. These women and their views form a canon on the question of women, a canon that can help guide the conversation for thinkers and activists today who want both to understand women and to advocate for justice for all people.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498279932
• Artikelnr.: 63347122

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Hockenbery is Dean of the Division of Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Saint Norbert College. Formerly she was Professor of Philosophy at Mount Mary University. She is the author of Thinking Woman: A Philosophical Approach to the Quandary of Gender (Cascade, 2015) and Just in Time: Moments in Teaching Philosophy (Pickwick, 2019).