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This book joins epistemic and socio-political issues, using Wittgenstein and diverse liberatory theories to reorient epistemology as an explicitly political endeavor, with trustworthiness at its heart. Each essay was an attempt to grasp a particular set of problems, and they appear together as a model of passionate philosophical engagement.

AbstractThe essay is a retrospective reflection on "Queering the Center by Centering the Queer: Reflections on Transsexuals and Secular Jews," which critically explored the structures of normative intelligibility through a comparison of experiences of unintelligibility. Twenty years later, extraordinary progress has been made in rendering transsexual lives intelligible, in part by replacing invisibly professionally managed transformations with openly lived journeys. But core conceptual dichotomies that problematically set the terms of intelligibility remain entrenched—in particular, between determined facticity and ungrounded freedom—leading to some trans women's arguing that there is some core meaning of woman that as a matter of fact includes them, and others' defiantly claiming the right to self-identify as women freed from any shared social understanding of what that means. The essay suggests that there is more political hope in arguing against currently normative understandings of gender while struggling to find plural, often contentious, but interrelated, coalitional understandings that do justice to the wide range of gender's discontents.

Recent writing by Jewish lesbians is characterized BY challenging and evocative reflection on themes of home and identity, family and choice, tradition and transfor' mation. This essay is a personal journey through some of this writing. An exploration of the obvious and troubling tensions between lesbian or feminist and Jewish identities leads to the paradoxical but ultimately unsurprising suggestion that lesbian identity and eroticism can provide a route of return to and affirmation of Jewish identity.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Section I: The Subject of Philosophy and the Philosophical Subject -- 1. Philosophy, Language, and Wizardry -- 2. Wittgenstein, Feminism, and the Exclusions of Philosophy -- 3. Speaking Philosophy in the Voice of Another: Wittgenstein, Irigaray, and the Inheritance of Mimesis -- Section II: Wittgensteinian Feminist Philosophy: Contrasting Visions -- 4. What Do Feminists Want in an Epistemology? -- 5. Making Mistakes, Rendering Nonsense, andMoving Toward Uncertainty -- 6. Tractatio Logico-Philosophica: Engendering Wittgenstein's Tractatus -- 7. The Moral Language Game -- 8. The Short Life of Meaning: Feminism and Nonliteralism -- Section III: Drawing Boundaries: Categories and Kinds -- 9. ''Back to the Rough Ground!'': Wittgenstein, Essentialism, and Feminist Methods -- 10. Wittgenstein Meets 'Woman' in the Language-Game of Theorizing Feminism -- 11. Using Wittgensteinian Methodology to Elucidate the Meaning of ''Equality'' -- 12. Eleanor Rosch and the Development of Successive Wittgensteinian Paradigms for Cognitive Science -- Section IV: Being Human: Agents and Subjects -- 13. Words and Worlds: Some Thoughts on the Significance of Wittgenstein for Moral and Political Philosophy -- 14. Big Dogs, Little Dogs, Universal Dogs: Ludwig Wittgenstein and Patricia Williams Talk About the Logic of Conceptual Rearing -- 15. Developing Wittgenstein's Picture of the Soul: Toward a Feminist Spiritual Erotics -- 16. ''No Master, Outside or In'': Wittgenstein's Critique of the Proprietary Subject -- Section V: Feminism's Allies: New Players, New Games -- 17. Wittgensteinian Vision(s) and ''Passionate Detachments'': A Queer Context for a Situated Episteme -- 18. Wittgenstein's Remarks on Colour as Remarks on Racism -- 19. Culture, Nature, Ecosystem (or Why Nature Can't Be Naturalized) -- 20. Moving to New Boroughs: Transforming the World by Inventing Language Games -- Bibliography -- Index -- Contributors