Battelle-Tompkins 112, (202) 885-2931, efeder@american.edu
Areas
of specialization
Contemporary continental philosophy, social and political philosophy,
ethics, feminist theory, and critical race theory.
Selected
publications
- Family Bonds: Genealogies of Race and Gender,
Oxford University Press, 2007
- A Passion for Wisdom: Readings in Western Philosophy
on Love and Desire (with Karmen MacKendrick and Sybol Cook), Prentice
Hall, 2004
- The Subject of Care: Feminist Perspectives on Dependency
(with Eva Feder Kittay), Rowman and Littlefield, 2002
- Derrida and Feminism: Recasting the Question
of Woman (with Mary C. Rawlinson and Emily Zakin), Routledge, 1997
Courses
taught
- Western Philosophy: Love
and Desire
- Moral Philosophy
- Philosophy, Politics, and Society
- Feminist Philosophy
- Philosophy and Education
- Race and Philosophy
- Nineteenth Century Philosophy
- Twentieth Century Philosophy
Education
Ph.D., SUNY Stony Brook
BA, Wesleyan University
