Kathleen J. Wininger, Ph.D.

Professor Kathleen J. Wininger is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Southern Maine. She writes and publishes in the areas of late nineteenth and twentieth-century cultural philosophy. She is the editor, with Robert Baker, of the 4th edition of Philosophy and Sex (Prometheus, 2008), she co-edited of the 3rd edition of Philosophy and Sex (Prometheus, 1998). She is the author of Friedrich Nietzsche's Reclamation of Philosophy (Rodopi, 1997) and is currently working on a book on the African writer Bessie Head. Her works include articles on ethical theory, Friedrich Nietzsche's moral and aesthetic theories, decolonization, and the ethical implications of European visual portrayal of colonized people. She teaches courses related to Aesthetics, Gender/Sexuality, African Philosophy, and Women Thinkers in Africa and the Diaspora. Prior to her present appointment, Dr. Wininger taught at Temple University, Earlham College and Villanova University in the United States. A frequent visitor to Southern and Eastern Africa, she has taught courses in Philosophy and Women's Studies in Kenya at the University of Nairobi.

For a complete version of her Curriculum Vitae, please visit this page.

Education

Temple University, Department of Philosophy, Ph. D. (August, 1988)
Dissertation Director: Joseph Margolis
Dissertation Committee: Alexander Nehamas, John Fisher, John Atwell

Southern Connecticut State University, B.A.
Majors: Philosophy and Art History
Additional undergraduate work in Philosophy at Yale University
And in Art History in Austria, Bavaria, and Italy

Areas of Specialization

AOS: Continental Philosophy, Philosophy of Culture: Aesthetics, Philosophy of Film
AOC: Social Justice and Ethics, Feminism, African Philosophy

Teaching/Research Interests

Philosophy of Culture, Continental Philosophy, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Film, Social Ethics, Feminism, African and African- American Philosophy

Courses Taught

Select Publications

Books

Philosophy and Sex, ed. Robert Baker and Kathleen J. Wininger. 4th edition, Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2008. in press

Philosophy and Sex, ed. Robert Baker, Kathleen J. Wininger, and Frederick A. Elliston. 3rd edition Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1998. 671 pages.

Wininger, K., Nietzsche's Reclamation of Philosophy, Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 1997. (Central-European Value Studies series under the editorship of Professor H. G. Callaway, University of Mainz, Germany).

Articles

"On Spinsters" in Philosophy and Sex, ed. Robert Baker and Kathleen J. Wininger. 4th edition, Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2008.

"To Cut or Not to Cut" in Philosophy and Sex, ed. Robert Baker and Kathleen J. Wininger. 4th edition, Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2008.

"The Slippery Slopes of Pornography," Love, and Friendship: Studies of the Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love 1993-2003, ed. by Alan Soble and Patricia Marino, Amsterdam: Rodopi (forthcoming, 2008) pp. Selected papers.

"Nietzsche." In Alan Soble, ed., Sex from Plato to Paglia: A Philosophical Encyclopedia, 2 vols. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2005, (3,000 words, pp. 711-718).

"Incorporating Gender Issues from African Philosophy in the Law" included in the Workbook for the SEARLW Women’s Law Program. July, 2004. pp. Selected papers.

Forward to Chinyere Okafor’s pamphlet “Season’s of Maine: One Year of an African Woman:” 2002, 1 page.

"Thinking African Identity: Brokenness & the Construction of Self in Bessie Head" Selected Papers from the Tenth Annual Women’s Studies Conference, Women of African Descent: Reaching Across the Diaspora, edited by Drs. Amenta, Crawford, and Jackson. 2004. Selected papers.

"Following African Identity in Bessie Head: An Exile’s Philosophical Journey" Proceedings of the 13th Annual International Conference on Women in Higher Education, edited by Diane M. Calhoun-French, Dean of Academic Affairs. 2002. pp. 13-24. Selected papers.

"Ida B. Wells," 500 word entry. Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences: The Nineteenth Century, 1800-1914. Edited by John Powell and Derek Blakeley. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001.

"Fictions And Spectacles: Neo Colonial Images Of African Women" in the 1999 Special Edition On Bessie Head's Work in Marang: Language Literature And Society: A Southern African Journal, Edited By Leloba Molema, pp 153-161, 2000.

"Nietzsche's Women and Women's Nietzsche" in Feminist Interpretations of Friedrich Nietzsche, edited by Kelly Oliver and Marilyn Pearsall in the Re-Reading the Canon series: from University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. pp.236-251.

"Steven Spielberg's Version of the Color Purple" Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts Newsletter. Vol. I, no. 2, September, 1994.

"African Philosophy: Two Views" in Philosophy, Humanity, and Ecology: Philosophy of Nature and Environmental Ethics. vol. 1. edited by Prof. H. Odera Oruka. Nairobi, Kenya: ACT Press, 1994. pp 198-207.

Reviews

Review of A Daughter of Isis: the Autobiography of Nawal el Saadawi for African Studies Quarterly. vol. 4 no. 2, Fall, 2000

Review of Disputed Subjects: Essays on Psychoanalysis, Politics and Philosophy by Jane Flax for Canadian Philosophical Reviews . Vol. XIV, no.6., December, 1994.