Hypatia articles from April 2008

Hypatia archives from April 2008

Women: the secret weapon of modern warfare?(Critical essay)
April 1, 2008... The images from wars in the Middle East that haunt us are those of young women killing and torturing. Their media circulated stories share a sense o f shock. They have both galvanized and confounded debates over feminism and women's equality....

Just war and the problem of evil.(Critical essay)
April 1, 2008... In this essay, Robin May Schott criticizes leading proponents of just war theory and introduces the notion of justifiable but illegitimate violence. Instead of legitimating some wars as just, it is better to acknowledge that both the situation...

The opposition of politics and war.
April 1, 2008... At stake for this essay is the distinction between politics and war and the extent to which politics can survive war. Gender analysis reveals how high these stakes are by revealing the complexity of militarism. It also reveals the impossibility...

Introduction: situated black women's voices in/on the profession of philosophy.
April 1, 2008... Two very prominent philosophers offered to look at my resume (I was flattered) and then asked to sleep with me (I was disturbed). --Anita Allen Doing philosophy is an activity. Like all activities, philosophy is situated. As a situated...

Situated voices: black women in/on the profession of philosophy.(Discussion)
April 1, 2008... George Yancy (GY): The first question blends the narrative autobiographical with the philosophical. This is an intersection that I find very interesting, particularly given the fact that we are, or so I claim, homo narrans and homo significans;...

Unruly daughters to mother nation: Palestinian and Israeli first-person films.(My Land Zion and Paradise Lost)
April 1, 2008... This article examines the Israeli documentary My Land Zion and the Palestinian documentary Paradise Lost. Both films are critical autobiographical texts and in both, the woman filmmaker negotiates her emotional and ideological ties with her...

Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege.(Critical essay)
April 1, 2008... Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege. By SHANNON SULLIVAN. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. In Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege, Shannon Sullivan employs what she...

Burdened Virtues Virtue Ethics for Liberatory Struggles.
April 1, 2008... Burdened Virtues Virtue Ethics for Liberatory Struggles. By LISA TESSMAN. Cambridge: Oxford University Press, 2005. Lisa Tessman asks whether virtue is possible in an oppressive society, and if so what it is like. She identifies a set of...

Science and Social Inequality: Feminist and Postcolonial Issues.
April 1, 2008... Science and Social Inequality: Feminist and Postcolonial Issues. By SANDRA HARDING. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2006. As was apparent in her groundbreaking text, The Science Question in Feminism (1987), one of Sandra Harding's...

Personal Autonomy in Society.(Critical essay)
April 1, 2008... Personal Autonomy in Society. By Marina Oshana. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2006. Personal Autonomy in Society covers a tremendous amount of philosophical ground. In this book, Marina Oshana defends a number of distinctive and provocative...

Women and Children First: Feminism, Rhetoric, and Public Policy.(BOOK NOTES)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Women and Children First: Feminism, Rhetoric, and Public Policy. Edited by Sharon M. Meagher and Patrice DiQuinzio. Albany: SUNY Press, 2005. This collection of essays examines the rhetoric of a wide range of public policies in the United...

The Contradictions of Freedom: Philosophical Essays on Simone de Beau, voir's The Mandarins.(BOOK NOTES)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2008... The Contradictions of Freedom: Philosophical Essays on Simone de Beau, voir's The Mandarins. Edited by Sally J. Scholz and Shannon Mussett. Albany: SUNY Press, 2005. Bringing together scholars in the fields of existentionalism,...

Feminist Interpretations of Theodor Adorno.(BOOK NOTES)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Feminist Interpretations of Theodor Adorno. Edited by Renee Heberle. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. This edited collection, which is part of the "Re-reading the Canon" series edited by Nancy Tuana, is useful both...

The Historical Dictionary of Feminist Philosophy.(BOOK NOTES)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2008... The Historical Dictionary of Feminist Philosophy. By Catherine Villanueva Gardner. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2006. This dictionary provides an overview of feminist philosophy with entries on both ideas-issues, concepts, and arguments, such...

Returning to Irigaray: Feminist Philosophy, Politics, and the Question of Unity.(BOOK NOTES)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Returning to Irigaray: Feminist Philosophy, Politics, and the Question of Unity. Edited by Maria C. Cimitile and Elaine P Miller. Albany: SUNY Press, 2007. This edited collection addresses a gap in the literature on Irigaray: "whether...

Changing the ideology and culture of philosophy: not by reason (alone).(MUSINGS)
April 1, 2008... There is a deep well of rage inside of me. Rage about how I as an individual have been treated in philosophy; rage about how others I know have been treated; and rage about the conditions that I'm sure affect many women and minorities in...

Replacing just war theory with an ethics of sexual difference.(Critical essay)
April 1, 2008... This essay argues that the flaws of just war theory should lead us to develop a new approach to living with others. Danielle Poe begins her argument with a description of just war theory and its failures. In the next section, Poe discusses the...

"The Stigma of Nation": feminist just war, privilege, and responsibility.(Critical essay)
April 1, 2008... If women are not yet accorded the full rights of citizenship internationally and especially in the military context, a feminist position on just war may have to be provisional. Drawing on Virginia Woolf's argument referenced in the title, Eide...

Care ethics and dependence--rethinking jus post bellum.(Critical essay)
April 1, 2008... In this essay, Ben-Porath begins from the assumption that just war theory should be extended to include a jus post bellum component. Postwar conduct should be significantly informed by a care ethics perspective, particularly its political...

The just war tradition: translating the ethics of human dignity into political practices.(Critical essay)
April 1, 2008... This essay argues that the ambiguities of the just war tradition, sifted through a feminist critique, provides the best framework currently available for translating the ethical entitlement to human dignity into concrete feminist political...

The human rights of others: sovereignty, legitimacy, and "just causes" for the "war on terror".(Critical essay)
April 1, 2008... In this essay, Denike assesses the appropriation of international human rights by humanitarian law and policy of "security states." She maps representations of the perpetrators and victims of "tyranny" and "terror," and their role in providing...

Introduction: thinking about war.
April 1, 2008... In the preface to Just and UnjustWars, which he wrote in 1977, Michael Walzer makes the following observation about how he came to think about just and unjust wars: I did not begin by thinking about war in general, but about ...