Böcker av Jane Duran

Revelations offered by art when viewed or reflected on from a distance in space or time.

This book presents the feminist critique of science and the philosophy of science in such a way that students of philosophy of science, philosophers, feminist theorists, and scientists will find the material accessible and intellectually rigorous.

Much recent work has been done on Plato's notion of the female Guardian, but examples are limited. Jane Duran argues that aristocratic women of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are indeed exemplary and embody the concept of Guardianship.

The first volume to explore comprehensively the intersection of feminism, politics and philosophy, Women in Political Theory sheds light on the contributions of women philosophers and theorists to contemporary political thought. With close attention to the work of five central thinkers, including Sarah Grimke, Anna Julia Cooper, Jane Addams.

This text is a long needed, cross-cultural primer on worldviews and epistemologies of various cultures. It will prove an enormously useful resource for scholars in women's studies, philosophy, anthropology, and religious studies.

As a young girl, Jane Duran moved to Chile with her family, travelling from New York to Valparaiso on the Santa Barbara, one of the Grace Line fleet. This long journey, passing through the Panama Canal and down the Pacific coast of Latin America, has inspired her collection of poems Graceline.

This book forwards a line of argument that indicates how feminist analyses can ameliorate the standard consequential (and occasionally deontological) lines in applied ethics. Drawing on core concepts in feminist philosophy, Feminist Analyses of Applied Ethics investigates five major issues: immigration, environmental preservation, intervention in medical areas, the peace movement, and matters of citizenship. Although most of these areas have received extensive analysis, there is no one work that covers all five areas from a feminist point of view. This book aims to remedy that defect. The work draws on key thinkers in feminist ethics, such as Card and Gilligan, and also ventures to other areas of feminist philosophy.

Spanning over nine hundred years, this work traces the themes of standard philosophical theorizing and feminist thought across women philosophers in the Western tradition. It presents a comprehensive overview of eight women philosophers that underscores the profound and continuing significance of these thinkers for contemporary scholars.

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Articulates philosophical concerns in the work of five well known twentieth century women writers, including writers of color. This book traces the development of philosophical themes - ontological, ethical and feminist - in the writings of Margaret Drabble, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Toni Cade Bambara and Elena Poniatowska.