Feminist interpretations of Benedict Spinoza / 
edited by Moira Ga tens. 
 - University Park, Pa. :  Pennsylvania State University Press,   c2 009. 
 - xiv, 239 p. ;   23 cm. 
 - Re-reading the canon .
 - Re-reading the canon. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: Through Spinoza's "looking glass" / Moira Gatens -- Do minance and difference : a Spinozistic alternative to the distinction b etween "sex" and "gender" / Genevieve Lloyd -- Autonomy and the relatio nal individual : Spinoza and feminism / Aurelia Armstrong -- Spinoza on the pathos of idolatrous love and the hilarity of true love / Amelie R orty -- Spinoza and sexuality / Alexandre Matheron -- Reason, sexuality , and the self in Spinoza / David West -- What Spinoza can teach us abo ut embodying and naturalizing ethics / Heidi Morrison Ravven -- Adam an d the serpent : everyman and the imagination / Paola Grassi -- The enve lope : a reading of Spinoza's ethics, "of God" / Luce Irigaray -- Re-re ading Irigaray's Spinoza / Sarah Donovan -- The politics of the imagina tion / Moira Gatens -- Law and sovereignty in Spinoza's politics / Susa n James. 
<br/><br/> "A collection of essays on the metaphysical, political, theological, ethical and psychological writings of Spinoza. Examines the ways in wh ich his philosophy presents a resource for the re-conceptualization of friendship, sexuality, politics and ethics in contemporary life"--Provi ded by publisher. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780271035161 (pbk.) 0271035161 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008-045147 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/> Spinoza, Benedictus de,  1632-1677. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Feminist criticism.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>199.492