TY - BOOK AU - Gatens, Moira. TI - Feminist interpretations of Benedict Spinoza T2 - Re-reading the canon SN - 9780271035161 (pbk.) U1 - 199.492 22 PY - 0000/// c2 009 CY - University Park, Pa. PB - Pennsylvania State University Press KW - Spinoza, Benedictus de, KW - Feminist criticism N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 N2 - "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 ER -