Dr. Susan Hekman

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PUBLICATIONS   

 

Books: Private Selves, Public Identities: Reconsidering Identity
Politics, 2004, Penn State Press.
                 
The Future of Differences: Truth and Method in Feminist
Theory, 1999, Polity Press and Blackwell.
                   
Moral Voices, Moral Selves:  Carol Gilligan and Feminist
Moral Theory, Polity Press (UK), Penn State Press (US), 1995.
                        
Gender and Knowledge:  Elements of a Postmodern Feminism,
Polity Press (UK), Northeastern University Press (US), 1990.
Translation: Japanese.Reprinted 1995.
                         
Hermeneutics and the Sociology of Knowledge, Polity 
Press (UK), University of Notre Dame Press (US), 1986.
Translation:  Portuguese.
                          
Weber, the Ideal Type, and Contemporary Social
Theory, University of Notre Dame Press, 1983.
                     
                    
Edited: Feminism, Identity, and Difference, Frank Cass,1999.
Special volume of Critical Review of International  
Social and Political Philosophy, vol.2#1, Spring, 1999,                  
pp.3-26.
                                  
Rereading the Canon:  Feminist Interpretations of
Foucault, Penn State Press, 1996.
                      
                         
Articles: "Feminist Identity Politics: Transforming the Political,"
in Dianna Taylor & Karen Vintges, eds. The Final 'Foucault.'
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004, pp. 197-213
                                                           
The Ontology of Change: Gadamer and Feminism, in Lorraine
Code, ed. Feminist Interpretations of Gadamer, University Park:
Penn State Press, 2003, pp. 181-201.
   
"The Moral Language Game," in Re-reading the Canon:                           
  Feminist Interpretations of Wittgenstein, ed. Naomi
  Scheman, University Park:  Penn State Press, 2002, pp.159-175.
                             
"The Epistemology of Moral Voice," in Nancy Tuana & Sandra
Morgen, eds. Engendering Rationalities. Albany: SUNY Press,
2001, pp. 415-435.
                         
"Beyond Identity: Feminism, Identity, & Identity Politics,"
Feminist Theory, vol. 1(3): 289-308, 2000.
                                 
Identity Crises: Identity, Identity Politics, and Beyond,
Critical Review of International Social and Political
Philosophy, vol.2#1, Spring 1999, pp.3-26.
                   
"Backgrounds and Riverbeds:  Feminist Reflections"
Feminist Studies,vol.25#2, pp.427-448, Summer, 1999
                        
"Material Bodies" in Body and Flesh:  A Philosophical
Reader, ed. Donn Welton, Oxford:  Blackwell Press, 1998,
pp.61-70.
                         
"Truth and Method:  Feminist Standpoint Theory Revisited," 
Signs, vol.22 #2 (1997) pp.341-365; "Reply," pp.399-402.
                                
"Weber and Post-Positivist Social Theory," in The
Barbarism of Reason, ed. Asher Horowitz and Terry Maley,
University of Toronto Press, 1994, pp. 267-286.
                       
"Subjects and Agents:  The Question for Feminism," in
Provoking Agents:  Theorizing Gender and Agency, ed.
Judith Kegan Gardiner, University of Illinois Press,
1995, pp. 370-395; and Filosofska Misal, vol. 11
(1991), pp. 15-28 (Bulgarian).
                      
"Gadamer and Ricoeur on Hermeneutics," in The Polity
Reader in Social Theory, Cambridge: Polity Press,
1994, pp. 49-53.
                       
"The Feminist Critique of Rationality," in The Polity
Reader in Gender Studies, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1994,
pp. 50-61.
                     
"Moral Voices, Moral Selves:  About Getting it Right in
Moral Theory," Human Studies, vol. 16, #1-2 (1993), pp.
143-162.
                            
"John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women:  The
Foundations of Liberal Feminism,"  History of
European Ideas, 1992, vol. 15 (#4-6), pp. 681-686.
                           
"Totalities and Localities:  The Question of Method,"
APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, Volume 91,
Fall, 1992, pp. 46-49.
                 
"The Embodiment of the Subject:  Feminism and the
Communitarian Critique of Liberalism," Journal of
Politics, vol. 54, no. 4 (1992), pp. 1096-1117.
                         
"Reconstituting the Subject:  Feminism, Modernism and
Postmodernism," Hypatia, vol. 6, no. 2 (1991), pp. 44-63.
                   
"Hermeneutics and the Crisis of Social Theory: A
Critique of Gidden's Epistemology," in Anthony Giddens:
Consensus and Controversy, ed. Jon Clark, Falmer Press,
1990, pp. 155-165, 167-8.
                                
"The Feminization of Epistemology:  Gender and the
Social Sciences," Women and Politics, Fall, 1987, and
in Feminism and Epistemology:  Approaches to Research
in Women and Politics, ed. Maria Falco, Haworth Press, 1987.
                     
"Antifoundational Thought and the Sociology of Knowledge:
The Case of Karl Mannheim," Human Studies,
vol. 10, no. 3-4 (1987), pp. 333-356.
                                
"Re-interpreting Mannheim," Theory, Culture, and
Society, vol. 3, no. 1 (1986), pp. 137-142.
                          
"Action as a Text," Journal for the Theory of Social
Behavior, vol. 14, no. 3 (October 1984), pp. 333-354.
                    
"From Epistemology to Ontology," Human Studies, vol.
6, no. 3 (1983), pp. 205-224.

"Weber's Ideal Type:  A Contemporary Reassessment,"

Polity, vol. 16, no. 1 (Fall 1983), pp. 119-137.
                                   
"Beyond Humanism:  Gadamer, Althusser and the 
Methodology of the Social Sciences," Western Political
Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 1 (March 1983), pp. 98-115.
                          
"Some Remarks on the Universal and Conventional in
Social Theory:  Wittgenstein and Habermas," Social
Science Journal, vol. 20, no. 2 (April 1983), pp. 1-15.
                          
"The Althusserian Critique of Weber:  A Reassessment,"
Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, vol. 12, no.2
(March 1982), pp.83-102.
                                   
"Phenomenology, Ordinary Language and the Methodology
of the Social Sciences," Western Political Quarterly,
vol. 33, no. 3 (September 1980), pp. 341-356.
                         
"Weber's Concept of Causality," Sociological Inquiry,
vol. 49, no. 4 (December 1979), pp. 67-76.
                           
                       
Essay "Unbearable Weight and Bodies That Matter," Susan
Reviews: Bordo and Judith Butler, Hypatia, vol. 10, no. 4
(1995): 151-157.
                        
"Max Weber and the Dispute over Reason and Value,"
Stephen Turner and Regis Factor, American Journal of
Sociology, vol. 91, no.5 (1986): 1240-1242.
                           
"Alfred Schutz:  An Intellectual Biography," Helmut
Wagner, Political Theory, vol. 12, no. 2 (1984): 299-302.
                   
"Naturalism and Social Science," David Thomas,
Political Theory, vol. 8, no. 4 (1980): 555-558.
                
                
Other: Routledge Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories:  Nancy
Hartsock;  Susan Moller Okin.  Forthcoming.