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Feminism and Philosophy Edited by M. Vetterling-Braggin, F. A. Elliston and J. English Littlefield, Adams, 1977, 452 pp., $7.95

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Susan Haack
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Philosophy , Volume 54 , Issue 208 , April 1979 , pp. 242 - 247
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1979

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References

1 Mill, J. S., ‘The Subjection of Women’ (1869)Google Scholar; Taylor, H., ‘The Enfranchisement of Women’ (1851), in Essays on Sex Equality, Rossi, A. (ed.) (Chicago University Press, 1970).Google Scholar

2 Cf. Honoré, T., Sex Law (Duckworth), 1978, Ch. 1.Google Scholar

3 Cf. the recent British decision that a man cannot be convicted of rape if he believes, however unreasonably, that the woman consents (Morgan v. DPP, 1976).Google Scholar

4 One of the classic papers is Koedt, A., ‘The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm’ (1970)Google Scholar reprinted in Radical Feminism, Koedt, A., Levine, E. and Rapone, A. (eds) (Quadrangle), 1973.Google Scholar Cf. also Moulton, J., ‘Sex and Reference’Google Scholar in Philosophy and Sex, Elliston, F. A. and Baker, R. (eds) (Prometheus), 1975.Google Scholar

5 See e.g. Liberalism and Social Action (1935) (Capricorn), 1963.Google Scholar

6 By contrast, Engels, in Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884) (Lawrence and Wishart), 1972Google Scholar, postulated a sexual division of labour before the development of capitalism and the patrilineal family.

7 Cf. Baker, R., ‘“Pricks” and “Chicks”’ in Philosophy and Sex, Elliston, F. A., and Baker, R. (eds) (Prometheus), 1975.Google Scholar

8 Thanks are due to the colleagues and students with whom I have discussed various papers in this collection.