While Sartre was committed to liberation struggles around the globe, his writing never directly addressed the oppression of women. Yet there is compatibility between his central ideas and feminist beliefs. In this first feminist collection on Sartre, philosophers reassess the merits of Sartres radical philosophy of freedom for feminist theory. Julien S. Murphy is Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine. She is the author of The Constructed Body