Diana Tietjens Meyers is a professor of philosophy at the University of Connecticut. She has recently published Subjection and Subjectivity: Psychoanalytic Feminism and Moral Philosophy (Routledge), articles about hate speech on college campuses and the role of emotion in moral epistemology, and an edited collection, Feminists Rethink the Self (Westview). Her anthology, Feminist Social Thought: A Reader, will be published in fall 1997 (Routledge). Her current work concerns identity and agency.

Jessica Prata Miller is a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at the University of Connecticut. She is currently working on her dissertation, entitled Trust, Moral Ties, and Social Responsibility.

Amy Mullin is an associate professor at the University of Toronto, where she teaches continental philosophy, feminism, and aesthetics. She is currently working on conceptions of community and on relations between art and politics.

Cynthia Stark is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Utah. She specializes in feminist philosophy, political philosophy, and ethical theory. She has published articles on Kant’s moral philosophy, impartiality, and pornography.

• From the Editor
• About the Newsletter
• News from the Committee on the Status of Women
• From the New Chair
• Book Reviews
  • Recent Feminist Philosophy Textbooks, Reviewed by Amy Mullin
  • Free Spirits: Feminist Philosophers on Culture and Gender Basics: Feminist Perspectives on Women and Men, Reviewed by Jessica Prata Miller
  • The Second Wave: A Reader in Feminist Theory and Women, Knowledge and Reality: Explorations in Feminist Philosophy, Reviewed by Cynthia A. Stark
  • Ethics: A Feminist Reader and Living with Contradictions: Controversies in Feminist Social Ethics, Reviewed by Margaret A. McLaren
  • Hypatia's Daughters: Fifteen Hundred Years of Women Philosophers, Reviewed by Julie M. Zilberberg
• Notes on Contributors