De bijdragen in deze bundel concentreren zich op het gedachtengoed van de filosoof Kant uit de 18e eeuw, vanuit een feministisch perspectief. Bevat de volgende bijdragen: Xenophobia and Kantian rationalism / Adrian M.S. Piper: Can Kant's ethics survive the feminist critique? / Sally Sedgwick: Feminist ethics: how it could benefit from Kant's moral philosophy / Herta Nagl-Docekal, translation by Stephanie Morgenstern: Re-visions of agency in Kant's moral theory / Jean P. Rumsey: Kantian ethics and claims of detachment / Marcia Baron: The aesthetic dimension of Kantian autonomy / Jane Kneller: The concepts of the sublime and the beautiful in Kant and Lyotard / Cornelia Klinger: Feminist themes in unlikely places: re-reading Kant's 'Critique of judgement' / Marcia Moen: Sensus communis and violence: a feminist reading of Kant's 'Critique of judgement' / Kim Hall: Kant's patriarchal order / Hannelore Schröder, translated by Rita Gircour: How can individualists share responsibility? / Annette C. Baier: The gender of enlightenment / Robin May Schott: Kant, the law, and desire / Monique David-Ménard, translated by Leslie Lykes de Galbert: The economy of respect: Kant and respect for women / Sarah Kofman, translated by Nicola Fisher: Rethinking Kant from the perspective of ecofeminism / Holly L. Wilson.