Language and liberation feminism, philosophy, and language (State University of New York Press, 1999)
Includes bibliographical references and index
How to do (feminist) things with words - Christina Hendricks and Kelly Oliver -- - Derogatory terms : racism, sexism, and the inferential role theory of meaning - Lynne Tirrell -- - Discourse competence : or how to theorize strong women speakers - Sara Mills -- - Surviving to speak new language : Mary Daly and Adrienne Rich - Jane Hedley -- - From revolution to liberation : transforming hysterical discourse into analytic discourse - Georganna Ulary -- - Disarticulated voices : feminism and philomela - Elissa Marder -- - Confessional feminisms : rhetorical dimensions of first-person theorizing - Susan David Bernstein -- - Postcolonial critic : shifting subjects, changing paradigms - Sangeeta Ray -- - Sublime impersonation : the rhetoric of personification in Kant - Natalie Alexander -- - Frege's metaphors - Andrea Nye -- - Free gift or forced figure? Derrida's usage of hymen in "The Double Session" - Roberta Weston -- - At the limits of discourse : heterogeneity, alterity, and the maternal body in Kristeva's thought - Ewa Płonowska Ziarek -- - Writing (into) the symbolic : the maternal metaphor in Hélǹe Cixous - Lisa Walsh -- - Language and the space of the feminine : Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray - Cynthia Baker