Feminists Read Habermas: Gendering the Subject of Discourse

| Acknowledgments    |                                                                                                    | ix  |
| A Note on the Text |                                                                                                    | xi  |
| Introduction       |                                                                                                    | 1   |
| 1.                 | What’s Critical about Critical Theory?                                                             | 21  |
|                    | Nancy Fraser                                                                                       |     |
| 2.                 | Critical Social Theory and Feminist Critiques: The Debate with Jürgen Habermas                     | 57  |
|                    | Jean L. Cohen                                                                                      |     |
| 3.                 | The Public and the Private Sphere: A Feminist Reconsideration                                      | 91  |
|                    | Joan B. Landes                                                                                     |     |
| 4.                 | Women and the “Public Use of Reason”                                                               | 117 |
|                    | Marie Fleming                                                                                      |     |
| 5.                 | From Communicative Rationality to Communicative Thinking: A Basis for Feminist Theory and Practice | 139 |
|                    | Jane Braaten                                                                                       |     |
| 6.                 | Feminist Discourse/Practical Discourse                                                             | 163 |
|                    | Simone Chambers                                                                                    |     |
| 7.                 | The Debate over Women and Moral Theory Revisited                                                   | 181 |
|                    | Seyla Benhabib                                                                                     |     |
| 8.                 | Discourse in Different Voices                                                                      | 205 |
|                    | Jodi Dean                                                                                          |     |
| 9.                 | Autonomy, Recognition, and Respect: Habermas, Benjamin, and Honneth                                | 231 |
|                    | Johanna Meehan                                                                                     |     |
| 10.                | Discourse Ethics and Feminist Dilemmas of Difference                                               | 247 |
|                    | Georgia Warnke                                                                                     |     |
| 11.                | Toward a Model of Self-Identity: Habermas and Kristeva                                             | 263 |
|                    | Allison Weir                                                                                       |     |
| Index              |                                                                                                    | 283 |
| Contributors       |                                                                                                    | 289 |