Contemporary Feminist Pragmatism

Maurice Hamington is Professor of Philosophy at Portland State University, USA. He writes on issues of feminist care ethics and American philosophy and is the author or editor of nine books.

This interdisciplinary collection of original essays explores the present implications of feminism and pragmatism for theory, policy, and action. This is the first book-length work to address the modern significance of the nexus of feminism and pragmatism.

Selected Contents: Part 1: Community and Identity 1. Transforming Whiteness with Roycean Loyalty: A Pragmatist Feminist Account Shannon Sullivan 2. The Hostile Gospel and Democratic Faith: Black Feminist Reflections on Rap and John Dewey V. Denise James 3. Border Communities and Royce: The Problem of Translation and Reinterpreting Feminist Empiricism Celia Bardwell-Jones 4. Dynamic Borders, Dynamic Identities: A Pragmatist Ontology Of "Groups" For Critical Multicultural Transnational Feminisms Amrita Banerjee 5. Solving the Problem of Epistemic Exclusion: A Pragmatist Feminist Approach Susan Dieleman Part 2: Political Practice 6. Feminist-Pragmatist Democratic Practice and Contemporary Sustainability Movements: Mary Parker Follett, Jane Addams, Emily Greene Balch, and Vandana Shiva Judy Whipps 7. Community Gardeners or Radical Homemakers? Lisa Heldke 8. Education's Role in Democracy: The Power of Pluralism Barbara Thayer-Bacon Part 3: Ethics and Inquiry 9. Visionary Pragmatism and an Ethics of Connectivity: An Alternative to the Autonomy Tradition in Analytic Ethics Cynthia Willett 10. The Revolutionary Fact of Compassion: William James, Buddhism and the Feminist Ethics of Care Cathryn Bailey 11. Hospitality as Moral Inquiry: Sympathetic Knowledge in the Guest/Host Encounter Maurice Hamington 12. A Methodological Interpretation of Feminist Pragmatism Claudia Gillberg 13. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Women, Animals, and Oppression Erin McKenna 14. Natural Caring: A Pragmatist Feminist Approach to Ethics in the More-Than-Human World Heather E. Keith