Feminism and Families

Thinking Gender

by Hilde Lindemann Nelson (Introduction)

A ground-breaking volume of all new essays covering the conjunction of two topics--feminism and families--that, for all their centrality in our culture, have not been adequately examined in light of one another. While the family has suffered feminist neglect, most women are in fact members of families, living their lives within the social context of families, even at a time when the concept of "family" has become bewilderingly unstable. The intersection of families and feminism is thus one in need of philosophical reflection, as a basis both for good public policy and for the ethical relationships of intimate life.

Genres: Feminism

270 pages, Paperback

First published December 17, 1996

About the author

Hilde Lindemann is a Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University. She has written books under the names Hilde Lindemann and Hilde Lindemann Nelson. She has coauthored a number of books with James Lindemann Nelson.

She is a former editor of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. She was also coeditor of Rowman & Littlefield's Feminist Constructions series and the general coeditor of the Reflective Bioethics series at Routledge.

A Fellow of the Hastings Center, her ongoing research interests are in feminist bioethics, feminist ethics, the ethics of families, and the social construction of persons and their identities.

Reviews

[Shelley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Contains a wide variety of thought provoking essays relevant to an introductory examination of feminist family studies. Published in 1997, some the arguments found in this text are incredibly out of date, but they, nonetheless, provide an ample starting point for further exploration. My favorite essays in this collection were "Feminism by Any Other Name" by Michele M. Moody-Adams and "Privacy, Self-Knowledge, and Pluralistic Communes: An Invitation to the Epistemology of the Family" by John Hardwig.