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Feminist interpretations of Benedict Spinoza / edited by Moira Gatens.

Contributor(s): Gatens, Moira
Material type: TextTextSeries: Re-reading the canon: Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: xiv, 239 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780271035161 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0271035161 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677 | Feminist criticismDDC classification: 199/.492 LOC classification: B3998 | .F28 2009Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Through Spinoza's "looking glass" / Moira Gatens -- Dominance and difference : a Spinozistic alternative to the distinction between "sex" and "gender" / Genevieve Lloyd -- Autonomy and the relational individual : Spinoza and feminism / Aurelia Armstrong -- Spinoza on the pathos of idolatrous love and the hilarity of true love / Amelie Rorty -- Spinoza and sexuality / Alexandre Matheron -- Reason, sexuality, and the self in Spinoza / David West -- What Spinoza can teach us about embodying and naturalizing ethics / Heidi Morrison Ravven -- Adam and the serpent : everyman and the imagination / Paola Grassi -- The envelope : a reading of Spinoza's ethics, "of God" / Luce Irigaray -- Re-reading Irigaray's Spinoza / Sarah Donovan -- The politics of the imagination / Moira Gatens -- Law and sovereignty in Spinoza's politics / Susan James.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Through Spinoza's "looking glass" / Moira Gatens -- Dominance and difference : a Spinozistic alternative to the distinction between "sex" and "gender" / Genevieve Lloyd -- Autonomy and the relational individual : Spinoza and feminism / Aurelia Armstrong -- Spinoza on the pathos of idolatrous love and the hilarity of true love / Amelie Rorty -- Spinoza and sexuality / Alexandre Matheron -- Reason, sexuality, and the self in Spinoza / David West -- What Spinoza can teach us about embodying and naturalizing ethics / Heidi Morrison Ravven -- Adam and the serpent : everyman and the imagination / Paola Grassi -- The envelope : a reading of Spinoza's ethics, "of God" / Luce Irigaray -- Re-reading Irigaray's Spinoza / Sarah Donovan -- The politics of the imagination / Moira Gatens -- Law and sovereignty in Spinoza's politics / Susan James.

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