Feminist Interpretations of John Dewey

Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 14
Introduction......Page 16
I. A Usable Past......Page 38
1 A Toast to John Dewey......Page 40
2 Experimenting with Education: John Dewey and Ella Flagg Young at the University of Chicago......Page 46
3 John Dewey’s Pragmatist Feminism......Page 62
4 Feminism and Pragmatism: On the Arrival of a ‘‘Ministry of Disturbance, a Regulated Source of Annoyance; a Destroyer of Routine, an Underminer of Complacency’’......Page 93
II. Democracy and Education......Page 108
5 Philosophy, Education, and the American Tradition of Aspirational Democracy......Page 110
6 Identity, Feminist Teaching, and John Dewey......Page 128
III. Subjectivity......Page 146
7 The Need for a Pragmatist Feminist Self......Page 148
8 Reclaiming a Subject, or A View from Here......Page 175
IV. Objectivity and Truth......Page 202
9 The Pragmatic Ecology of the Object: John Dewey and Donna Haraway on Objectivity......Page 204
10 The Need for Truth: Toward a Pragmatist-Feminist Standpoint Theory......Page 225
V. Social and Political Philosophy......Page 252
11 How Practical Is John Dewey?......Page 254
12 Deepening Democratic Transformation: Deweyan Individuation and Pragmatist Feminism......Page 275
13 Jane Addams’s Critique of Capitalism as Patriarchal......Page 293
Select Bibliography......Page 312
Contributors......Page 320
Index......Page 322