Linda Martin Alcoff is Director of Women's Studies and Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College, City University of New York.
Alcoff's work is consistently insightful, clearly written, and well argued. She bravely tackles a number of contemporary challenges to feminist philosophy, including attacks on the epistemic authority of sexual assault victims, worries about making normative judgments about sex, difficulties with defining the concept of rape, and the political dangers of public discourse. ... The best book I have read in several years. Debra L. Jackson, California State University, Bakersfield