Preface Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION Why Feminism and Freedom Both Begin with the Letter F Freedom as a Social Question Freedom as a Subject Question Freedom as a World Question Feminism's "Lost Treasure" CHAPTER ONE Feminists Know Not What They Do: Judith Butler's Gender Trouble and the Limits of Epistemology Theory--The Craving for Generality? A Wittgensteinian Reading of the Feminist Foundations Debate Doing Gender, Following a Rule Radical Imagination and Figures of the Newly Thinkable Toward a Freedom-Centered Feminist Theory CHAPTER TWO Feminists Are Beginners: Monique Wittig's Les guérillères and the "Problem of the New" The Limits of Doubt Language as a "War Machine" Renversement No-More and Not-Yet Elles --A Fantastic Universal CHAPTER THREE Feminists Make Promises: The Milan Collective's Sexual Difference and the Project of World-Building Tearing Up the Social Contract The Desire for Reparation The Problem with Equality Discovering Disparity A Political Practice of Sexual Difference Refiguring Rights CHAPTER FOUR Feminists Make Judgments: Hannah Arendt's Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy and the Affirmation of Freedom Judgment and the "Problem of the New" The Old Problem of Objectivity Judging without a Concept One Concept of Validity A Political Concept of Validity From World-Disclosure to World-Opening "Being and thinking in my own identity where actually I am not" Imagination and Freedom Sensus Communis and the Practice of Freedom CONCLUSION Reframing the Freedom Question in Feminism Feminism's Paradox of Founding What a Political Claim Is Feminism Is a World-Building Practice Recovering Feminism's "Lost Treasure" Notes Index.