Feminist Frameworks: Alternative Theoretical Accounts of the Relations Between Women and Men

Alison M. Jaggar is Professor of Philosophy and Womens Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She has also taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of California at Los Angeles, and Rutgers University, where she held the Laurie New Jersey Chair in Womens Studies. Her books include Feminist Politics and Human Nature and Gender/Body/Knowledge: Feminist Reconstruction of Being and Knowing, coedited with Susan R. Bordo. Currently she is working on two books, Living with Contradictions: Moral Controversies in Feminism, and Toward a Feminist Conception of Practical Reason. Jaggar was a founder member of the Society for Women in Philosophy and is past chair of the American Philosophical Association Committee on the Status of Women. She works with local feminist organizations and sees feminist scholarship as inseparable from feminist activism.

Paula S. Rothenberg is Director of The New Jersey Project: Integrating the Scholarship on Gender, a statewide curriculum transformation project, and is Professor of Philosophy and Womens Studies at The William Patterson College of New Jersey where she has taught since 1969. She serves on the Advisory Board of the New Jersey Multicultural Studies Project and is a former Regional Coordinator of the National Womens Studies Association Mid-Atlantic Region. Rothenberg is the coeditor of Philosophy Now and Ethics in Perspective and the author of Race, Class, and Gender in the United States. Her articles and essays appear in journals and anthologies in philosophy, womens studies, education, and African-American Studies. She has also lectured and consulted on multicultural and gender curriculum transformation at colleges and universities across the country.