© Columbia University Press
Hipparchia's Choice: An Essay Concerning Women, Philosophy, etc.
Paper, 392 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13895-6
$26.50
/ £15.50
October, 2006
Cloth, 392 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13894-9
$75.00
/ £44.00
"Informally ordered yet tightly argued, Hipparchia's Choice ranges from brief close readings of Aristotle and Husserl to investigation of local 1970s French campaigns for reproductive rights and educational equality, with lengthy (but never self-indulgent) biographical and autobiographical digressions, always in search of the solid ground of shared political realism." — Meryl Altman, Women's Review of Books
"To see Hipparchia's Choice simply as an excellent feminist text is not enough: the point is that it is also excellent philosophy. . . . Le Doeuff's book is a challenge to what has rapidly become the received wisdom of a large section of Western feminism." — Toril Moi, Times Literary Supplement
"Your book is a joy. It has a strength which permeates its every tone of voice. You are renewing the whole problem of thought, tracking down a distinctively masculine cogito. Already you are sketching the outline of a thought which would be free from such constraints, and estimating its cost. I admire your book and am impatient for the next one. Think of me as someone close to you and be assured, if you will, of my friendship." — Gilles Deleuze
"Le Doeuff is a feminist thinker of unparalleled brilliance and originality. Hipparchia's Choice is a deep, sustained series of meditations on women and philosophy; it is perhaps even more important and relevant now than it was when first published. I cannot recommend a book with more enthusiasm." — Nancy Bauer, Tufts University and author of Simone de Beauvoir, Philosophy, and Feminism
"Hipparchia's Choice takes many of the themes and problems brought to life by Simone de Beauvoir fifty years ago and deepens and recreates them for the twenty-first century." — Emily Grosholz, Pennsylvania State University