Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Dialogue, politics and gender / Jude Browne -- Women and the standpoint of concrete others: from the criticism of discourse ethics to feminist social criticism / James Gordon Finlayson -- Gender, discourse and non-essentialism / Barbara Fultner -- Universalism in feminist international ethics: gender and the difficult labour of translation / Kimberly Hutchings -- Language, gender, dialogue, ethics: universalism and consensus after gender trouble / Terrell Carver -- Between consensus and deconstruction: a feminist reading of dialogue / Martin Leet and Roland Bleiker -- Trapped in a family portrait? Gender and family in Nietzsche's refiguring of authority / Verity Smith and Tracy B. Strong -- Gender, gesture and garments: encountering embodied interlocutors / Diana Coole -- What kind of dialogue do we need? Gender, deliberation and comprehensive values / Clare Chambers and Phil Parvin -- Deliberation, domination and decision-making / Judith Squires.