Introduction : Engaging the present / Dianna Taylor and Karen Vintges -- The shaping of a "beautiful" soul : the critical life of Anna Maria van Schurman / Jeannette Bloem -- E.G. : Emma Goldman, for example / Kathy E. Ferguson -- Exit Woolf / Stephen M. Barber -- Experience and truth telling in a post-humanist world : a Foucauldian contribution to feminist ethical reflections / Mariana Valverde -- An ethics of the self / Helen O'Grady -- Inventing images, constructing standpoints : feminist strategies of the technology of the self / Sylvia Pritsch -- Practicing practicing / Ladelle McWhorter -- Foucault's pleasures : desexualizing queer politics / Jana Sawicki -- Bodies and power revisited / Judith Butler -- Feminist identity politics : transforming the political / Susan Hekman -- Foucault and feminism : power, resistance, freedom / Margaret A. McLaren -- Foucault, feminism, and the self : the politics of personal transformation / Amy Allen -- Foucault's ethos : guide(post) for change / Dianna Taylor -- Endorsing practices of freedom : feminism in a global perspective / Karen Vintges

1. Feminist theory
2. Foucault
3. Michel
4. 1926-1984
5. Feminist ethics
6. Self
7. Power (Social sciences)
8. Postmodernism -- Social aspects