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61Making History of Ideas Classes RelevantTeaching Philosophy 25 (2): 123-130. 2002.Many of the concrete examples found in older philosophical texts that aim at showing how a philosophical idea is relevant tend, for many students, to be mysterious. While instructors can substitute examples from their own lives to show an idea’s relevance, such examples can fail to be effective since college students are not a homogenous group and faculty often do not know their students well. This paper describes a writing assignment where students are asked to choose an event from their lives …Read more
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48Rousseau's Political Defense of the Sex‐roled FamilyHypatia 5 (3): 90-109. 1990.We argue that Rousseau 's defense of the sex-roled family is not based on biological determinism or simple misogyny. Rather, his advocacy of sexual differentiation is based on his understanding of its ability to bring individuals outside of themselves into interdependent communities, and thus to counter natural independence, self-absorption and asociality, as well as social competitiveness and egoism. This political defense of the sex-roled family needs more critique by feminists
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22Book review: Gendered community: Rousseau, sex, and politics (review)Philosophy and Literature 19 (1). 1995.
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21Feminism and community (edited book)Temple University Press. 1995.Author note: Penny A. Weiss, Associate Professor of Political Science at Purdue University, is the author of Gendered Community: Rousseau, Sex, and Politics. Marilyn Friedman, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Washington University, is the author of What Are Friends For? Feminist Perspectives on Personal Relationships and Moral Theory.
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21Feminist Interpretations of Mary Astell (edited book)Pennsylvania State University Press. 2016."A collection of essays on the early modern English writer, proto-feminist, and rhetorician Mary Astell. Includes discussions on human nature, equality, rationality, power, freedom, friendship, marriage, and education"--Provided by publisher.
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20Feminism and communitarianismIn Penny A. Weiss & Marilyn Friedman (eds.), Feminism and Community, Temple University Press. pp. 161--186. 1995.
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18Canon Fodder: Historical Women Political ThinkersPennsylvania State University Press. 2009.A discussion of women thinkers in political philosophy, and the nature of political inquiry --Provided by publisher.
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16Feminist reflections on communityIn Penny A. Weiss & Marilyn Friedman (eds.), Feminism and Community, Temple University Press. pp. 3--18. 1995.
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13Bodies of KnowledgeTeaching Philosophy 45 (2): 181-207. 2022.I developed a first-day exercise for my interdisciplinary “Feminist Epistemology” class that calms students’ fears about what they imagine will be the unduly abstract course content, and engages them in easy but revealing conversation about knowledge. Individually and then together, we explore metaphors and proverbs about knowing body parts and bodily images of knowledge that have the potential to teach us something about knowledge itself. From “the nose knows” to having “seminal ideas” to being…Read more
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10Gendered Community: Rousseau, Sex, and PoliticsNYU Press. 1993.Weiss (political science, Purdue U.) wades through the tangled prose and ideas of the 18th-century French philosopher to resolve some of his male-female role contradictions. She finds that his gender-based division of labor was designed to make everyone dependent on the whole society, rather than to relegate women to a subordinate role, but that the actual arrangements he suggests are based on a purely antifeminist culture. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
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9Feminist Interpretations of Emma Goldman (edited book)Pennsylvania State University Press. 2007.Within the popular consciousness, Emma Goldman has become something of an icon, a symbol for rebellion and women’s rights. But there has been surprisingly little substantive analysis of her influence on social, political, and feminist theory. In _Feminist Interpretations of Emma Goldman,_ Weiss and Kensinger present essays that resist a simplistic understanding of Goldman and instead attempt to examine her thinking in its proper social, historical, and philosophical context. Only by considering …Read more
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7Conversations with Feminism: Political Theory and PracticeRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1998.Applying the idea of conversation broadly, Penny A. Weiss offers a collection of essays that are either constructed dialogues, letters, or discussions about voice and silencing. Conversation emerges as both a theory and a method of feminist political inquiry and practice. The most vocal participants in Weiss' conversations are historical political thinkers both within the Western canon (Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Rousseau) and beyond its confines (Astell, Coopers, Wollstonecraft, de Pizan). …Read more
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51 Locations and LegaciesIn Penny Weiss & Alice Sowaal (eds.), Feminist Interpretations of Mary Astell, Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 1-15. 2016.
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28 “From the Throne to Every Private Family”In Penny Weiss & Alice Sowaal (eds.), Feminist Interpretations of Mary Astell, Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 128-152. 2016.
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St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Social and Political Philosophy |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |