Contents
Preface
Nancy Tuana
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Erin C. Tarver and Shannon Sullivan
Part I: The Promise and Peril of James’s Philosophy for Feminism
1 The Feminine-Mystical Threat to Masculine-Scientific Order
Charlene Haddock Seigfried
2 “The Woman Question”: James’s Negotiations with Natural Law Theory and Utilitarianism
Jacob L. Goodson
3 Women and William James
Erin McKenna
4 Lady Pragmatism and the Great Man: The Need for Feminist Pragmatism
Erin C. Tarver
Part II: Pragmatist Ethics of Care
5 The Energies of Women: William James and the Ethics of Care
Susan Dieleman
6 William James and the Will to Care for Unfamiliar Others: The Masculinity of Care?
Maurice Hamington
Part III: Embodiment and Emotion
7 Habit, Relaxation, and the Open Mind: James and the Increments of Ethical Freedom
Megan Craig
8 James and Feminist Philosophy of Emotion
Shannon Sullivan
9 “A Perverse Kind of Pleasure”: James, the Body, and Women’s Mystical Experience
Jeremy Carrette
Part IV: Epistemic and Narrative Contestations
10 The Will Not to Believe: Pragmatism, Oppression, and Standpoint Theory
José Medina
11 Incredulity and Advocacy: Thinking After William James
Lorraine Code
Afterword
Charlene Haddock Seigfried
Index

