Hegel and Feminist Philosophy Book

	Preface
	Introduction	1
1	Feminist Philosophy and the Way of Despair	7
1.1	Thinking as a Feminist	8
1.2	Feminist Re-thinkings of Reason and Truth	17
1.3	Feminist Re-thinkings of Moral Agency and Judgement	22
1.4	Feminist Re-thinkings of Politics	25
2	Philosophy as the Task of Comprehension	31
2.1	Phenomenology and Science	32
2.2	On Nature, History and Right	44
2.3	Feminist Readings of Hegel	50
3	Thinking the Second Sex	56
3.1	Ambiguities	58
3.2	How Has 'Woman' Come to Be?	64
3.3	Thinking Being as Life; Existence as Spirit	72
4	Re-thinking the Second Sex	80
4.1	Antigone's Story	82
4.2	Hegel's Antigone	94
4.3	Towards a Hegelian Feminist Philosophy	102
5	Hegel and Feminist Ethics	112
5.1	Moral Identity and an Ethics of Difference	114
5.2	Hegel, the 'Moral Point of View' and 'Ethical Life'	122
6	Hegel and the Sexual Contract	133
6.1	Modern Patriarchy	135
6.2	Beyond the Sexual Contract	143
6.3	Towards a Hegelian Feminist Ethical Theory	148
	Conclusion	156
	Notes	161
	References	173
	Index	182