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IntroductionElly VintiadisPart I: Thinking about Philosophy1. Philosophy as a Means of Empowerment and Self-AdvocacyLisa Bortolotti and Sophie Stammers2. What Is Philosophy and Why Does It Matter?: A Situated, Pluralist, Social, Caring -- and Perhaps Rebellious ResponseMaria Brincker3. Does Philosophy Progress?Agnes Callard4. Adventures in PhilosophyEllen Fridland5. When Love Stinks, Call a Conceptual PlumberC.S.I. Jenkins6. Moving the Contexts of PhilosophyHeisook Kim7. Philosophy, Comedy, and the Need for Good MaterialQuill R Kukla8. Hypatia's GazeKyoo Lee9. Philosophy as a Helping Profession?Gina Schouten10. What Philosophy Is and What It Could BeElly VintiadisPart II: Doing and Valuing Philosophy 11. What Is the Philosophy of Cinema? An Alternative ReadingMelenia Arouh12. Becoming a Humbler Philosopher: My Life in Philosophy as a WomanEva Feder Kittay13. Philosopher Queens? The Wrong Question at the Wrong TimeMary Margaret McCabe14. How Can Philosophy of Language Help Us Navigate the Political News Cycle?Teresa Marques15. Philosophy as WorkChris Meyns16. Thinking-Emoting-Reflecting Beyond LoveRónké Òké17. On Doing Philosophy: Territory, Discipline and PracticesMickaella Perina18. The History of Philosophy and Its Disappeared WomenEmily Thomas19. Believing Is Seeing: Feminist Philosophy, Knowledge, and PerceptionBriana Toole20. Philosophy Matters for Children, Children Matter for PhilosophyPenelope Voutsina21. How Can a (Modern) Greek (Woman) Be a Philosopher?Fay Zika

Assuming that women's empowerment would accelerate the pace of social change in rural Nepal, the World Bank urged the Nepali government to undertake a "Gender Activities Project" within an ongoing long-term water-engineering scheme. The author, an anthropologist specializing in bureaucratic organizations and gender studies, was hired to monitor the project. Analyzing her own experience as a practicing "development expert," she demonstrates that the professed goal of "women's empowerment" is a pretext for promoting economic organizational goals and the interests of local elites. She shows how a project intended to benefit women, through teaching them literary and agricultural skills, fails to provide them with any of the promised resources. Going beyond the conventional analysis that positions aid givers vis-à-vis powerless victimized recipients, she draws attention to the complexity of the process and the active role played by the Nepalese rural women who pursue their own interests and aspirations within this unequal world. The book makes an important contribution to the growing critique of "development" projects and of women's development projects in particular

The introductory essay of a section on "Altered States" maintains that scholars of feminist science studies almost never work in academic departments that have many other scholars with the same interests. Consequently, their work not only rarely conforms to the orderly dimensions of any prevailing framework, but often challenges these frameworks. The evolution of feminist science studies is traced from its emergence in the 1970s, when feminist critics of science worked in isolation, through the development & enrichment of a theoretical framework, to the current body of work that has "reimagined the cornerstone role of objectivity in the practices & purposes of creating scientific knowledge." Diverse questions currently being researched are examined, noting that most feminist science theory/research looks at who does science, how & for whose benefit it is conducted, & its social consequences. The dual deconstructive & reconstructive roles of feminist theory in the humanities & social sciences are discussed, along with similar deconstructive & reconstructive elements of feminist science theory. A synopsis of the section's essays is included. 42 References. J. Lindroth