Feminists Read Habermas: Gendering the Subject of Discourse 0415635144, 9780415635141

This important new collection considers Jurgen Habermas's discourse theory from a variety of feminist vantage point

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Table of contents :
| Acknowledgments | | ix |
| A Note on the Text | | xi |
| Introduction | | 1 |
| 1. | What’s Critical about Critical Theory? | 21 |
| | Nancy Fraser | |
| 2. | Critical Social Theory and Feminist Critiques: The Debate with Jürgen Habermas | 57 |
| | Jean L. Cohen | |
| 3. | The Public and the Private Sphere: A Feminist Reconsideration | 91 |
| | Joan B. Landes | |
| 4. | Women and the “Public Use of Reason” | 117 |
| | Marie Fleming | |
| 5. | From Communicative Rationality to Communicative Thinking: A Basis for Feminist Theory and Practice | 139 |
| | Jane Braaten | |
| 6. | Feminist Discourse/Practical Discourse | 163 |
| | Simone Chambers | |
| 7. | The Debate over Women and Moral Theory Revisited | 181 |
| | Seyla Benhabib | |
| 8. | Discourse in Different Voices | 205 |
| | Jodi Dean | |
| 9. | Autonomy, Recognition, and Respect: Habermas, Benjamin, and Honneth | 231 |
| | Johanna Meehan | |
| 10. | Discourse Ethics and Feminist Dilemmas of Difference | 247 |
| | Georgia Warnke | |
| 11. | Toward a Model of Self-Identity: Habermas and Kristeva | 263 |
| | Allison Weir | |
| Index | | 283 |
| Contributors | | 289 |

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