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Spring 2008
Volume 07, Number 2

Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy

Contributors

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Alison Bailey directs the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Illinois State University where she is also an associate professor in the philosophy department. Her research addresses issues at the intersections of feminist theory, moral and political philosophy, philosophy of race/whiteness studies, and epistemology. Her work on philosophical issues related to racism and resistance has appeared in Hypatia, Whiteness: Feminist Philosophical Perspectives, Feminist Ethics Revisited, and Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance. She recently co-edited a special issue of Hypatia on “The Reproduction of Whiteness: Race and the Regulation of the Gendered Body,” with Jacquelyn N. Zita. She and Chris Cuomo have just co-edited The Feminist Philosophy Reader. Her current research addresses questions of race in feminist bioethics, and philosophical responses to intersectionality. baileya@ilstu.edu

Nancy Holland is professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy at Hamline University. She is author of The Madwoman’s Reason, editor of Feminist Interpretations of Jacques Derrida, and co-editor of Feminist Interpretations of Martin Heidegger (all from Penn State Press). Recent articles include “Derrida’s Wake” (Radical Philosophy Review, Volume 8, Number 2) and “The Revenante of Abu Ghraib” (Philosophy Today, Volume 50, Supplement 2006). nholland@gw.hamline.edu

Gail Presbey is professor of philosophy at University of Detroit Mercy. She teaches peace and social justice, ethics, African philosophy and culture, and other courses related to social and political philosophy. Her interests are in cross-cultural and feminist explorations in philosophy and the philosophy of non-violence. She co-edited The Philosophical Quest: A Cross Cultural Reader, Thought and Practice in African Philosophy (2002), and edited Philosophical Perspectives on the ‘War on Terrorism’ (2007). In 1998-2000 she held a two-year J. William Fulbright Senior Scholar position at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, and in 2005 she had a six-month research Fulbright grant, hosted by World Peace Center at MIT, Pune, India. presbegm@udmercy.edu

Naomi Zack received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University in 1970 and, after a twenty-year absence from academia, began teaching at the University at Albany, SUNY, in 1990. She has been professor of philosophy at the University of Oregon since 2001. Zack has published widely on race, gender, and seventeenth-century philosophy and is the author of these books: Race and Mixed Race (Temple, 1993); Bachelors of Science (Temple, 1996); Philosophy of Science and Race (Routledge, 2002); Inclusive Feminism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), and the short textbook, Thinking About Race (2nd edition 2006). Zack is also the editor of American Mixed Race (Rowman & Littlefield, 1995), RACE/SEX (Routledge, 1997), and Women of Color in Philosophy (Blackwell, 2002). She has written numerous articles and has spoken widely about her work in both the U.S. and Europe. Her forthcoming book is The Specter of Disaster: New Moral Questions from Life and Popular Culture. nzack@uoregon.edu

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