Contemporary Feminist Pragmatism

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Selected Contents: Part 1: Community and Identity 1. Transforming Whiteness with Roycean Loyalty: A Pragmatist Feminist Account Shannon Sullivan 2. The Hostile Gospel and Democratic Faith: Black Feminist Reflections on Rap and John Dewey V. Denise James 3. Border Communities and Royce: The Problem of Translation and Reinterpreting Feminist Empiricism Celia Bardwell-Jones 4. Dynamic Borders, Dynamic Identities: A Pragmatist Ontology Of Groups For Critical Multicultural Transnational Feminisms Amrita Banerjee 5. Solving the Problem of Epistemic Exclusion: A Pragmatist Feminist Approach Susan Dieleman Part 2: Political Practice 6. Feminist-Pragmatist Democratic Practice and Contemporary Sustainability Movements: Mary Parker Follett, Jane Addams, Emily Greene Balch, and Vandana Shiva Judy Whipps 7. Community Gardeners or Radical Homemakers? Lisa Heldke 8. Education's Role in Democracy: The Power of Pluralism Barbara Thayer-Bacon Part 3: Ethics and Inquiry 9. Visionary Pragmatism and an Ethics of Connectivity: An Alternative to the Autonomy Tradition in Analytic Ethics Cynthia Willett 10. The Revolutionary Fact of Compassion: William James, Buddhism and the Feminist Ethics of Care Cathryn Bailey 11. Hospitality as Moral Inquiry: Sympathetic Knowledge in the Guest/Host Encounter Maurice Hamington 12. A Methodological Interpretation of Feminist Pragmatism Claudia Gillberg 13. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Women, Animals, and Oppression Erin McKenna 14. Natural Caring: A Pragmatist Feminist Approach to Ethics in the More-Than-Human World Heather E. Keith