InBelief, Bodies, and Being, thirteen distinguished contributors present diverse and illuminating viewpoints on feminist issues of embodiement, materialism, and agency from feminist and postmodernist philosophical perspectives.

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Acknowledgements Chapter 3 Thinking Through the Body: An Introduction to Beliefs, Bodies and Being Chapter 4 Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter Chapter 5 Monstrous Reflections on the Mirror of the Self-Same Chapter 6 Ontology and Feminism Chapter 7 Diotima, Wittgenstein and a Language for Liberation Chapter 8 Re-situating the Feminine in Contemporary French Philosophy Chapter 9 Being and Time, Non-Being and Space... Introductory Notes Toward an Ontological Stude of 'Women' Chapter 10 To Take a Chance with Meaning under the Veil of Words: Transpositions, Mothers and Learning in Julia Kristeva's Theory of Language Chapter 11 In Search of the Body in the Cave: Luce Irigaray's Ethics of Embodiment Chapter 12 Reconsidering the Notion of the Body in Anti-essentialism, With the Help of Luce Irigaray and Judith Butler Chapter 13 Butler's Sophisticated Constructivism: A Critical Assessment Chapter 14 A Critique of Feminist Radical Constructionism Chapter 15 Applying Time to Feminist Philosophy of the Body Chapter 16 Contributors Chapter 17 Index