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This book presents a significant challenge to the belief that philosophy, especially Anglo-American philosophy, is gender neutral. The author argues that this philosophical tradition is structured in such a way as to make philosophy from a woman's point of view problematic, if not impossible. Her unusual background in Anglo-American philosophy, contemporary Continental philosophy, and feminism supports a creative synthesis involving the work of philosophers in all three areas. With its focus on Locke and Hume, the book also serves as an important critique in the history of modern philosophy.

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"Women's philosophy" here is work "that arises from, explicitly refers to, and attempts to account for the experience of women." Holland (Hamline University) starts by using deconstructionist critique to show how Locke and Hume define experience so as to render women's philosophy impossible. She then turns to Continental resources for "feminist re-thinking of philosophy": Heidegger's being-with; Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology; the existentialisms of Sartre and Beauvoir; structuralism and semiotics (Barthes, Lacan, Foucault, and Derrida); and the "French Feminists"--Wittig, Kristeva, Cixous, and Irigaray. She ends with recommendations and examples (dealing with abortion and nuclear war) for a "deconstructive/phenomenological/hermeneutic approach to women's philosophy." Rich in allusions, dense in style, and difficult in content, the book brings together in intriguing and helpful ways very different approaches to feminist theory. (For easier starting points, see Alison M. Jaggar, Feminist Politics and Human Nature, 1983, and New French Feminisms, ed. by Elaine Marks and Isabelle de Courtivron, CH, May'80). Helpful bibliography and index; most useful for faculty and graduate students. -H. J. John, Trinity College (DC)

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Nancy Holland is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Hamline University in Minnesota.