Books by Professor Deborah K. Heikes

Provides an assessment of feminist rejections of rationality and a reconstruction of the concept to meet feminist demands. This book represents a sustained argument for a feminist theory of rationality. It opens by asking the question: is reason inherently masculine?

Argues that the Enlightenment conception of rationality that feminists are fond of attacking is no longer a live concept. The author shows how contemporary theories of rationality are consonant with feminist concerns and proposes that feminists need a substantive theory of rationality, which she argues should be a virtue theory of rationality.