Feministische interpretatie van het werk van René Descartes. Aandacht voor 'The passions of the Soul', Méditations, de Cartesiaanse mens, zijn visie op vrouwen. Bevat de volgende bijdragen: Descartes / Karl Stern: Selections from 'The flight to objectivity' / Susan Bordo: Reason as attainment / Genevieve Lloyd: Descartes's 'Gender' / Stanley Clarke: Wonder: a reading of Descartes, 'The passions of the soul' / Luce Irigaray: Writing like a man(?): Descartes, science, and madness / James A. Winders: Postmodern turns against the Cartesian subject: Descartes's 'I', Lacan's other / Adrianna M. Paliyenko: Radical doubt and the liberation of women / Ruth Perry: Descartes's mood: the question of feminism in the correspondence with Elisabeth / Thomas E. Wartenberg: Cartesian women / Erica Harth: Women cartesians, 'feminine philosophy', and historical exclusion / Eileen O'Neill: When Descartes met the fitness babe: academic Cartesianism and the late twentieth-century cult of the body / Leslie Heywood: Rehabilitating the 'I' / Susan Bordo and Mario Moussa: Cartesian autobiography/post-Cartesian testimonials / Mario Sáenz.