Hypatia articles from January 1993

Hypatia archives from January 1993

Embodiment, sexual difference, and the nomadic subject.
January 1, 1993... In my previous work on contemporary French philosophy (Braidotti 1991), I put forward a two-pronged argument: while stating my skepticism at the idea of the "crisis" of modernity, a crisis of the philosophical subject that takes place at the...

Women's lives/feminist knowledge: feminist standpoint as ideology critique.
January 1, 1993... I. Feminist standpoint theory occupies a significant place among materialist critiques of Western epistemology.(1) Socialist feminists initially appropriated the notion of standpoint from the insights of Marx, Engels, Lukacs, and others...

Hannah Arendt, feminism, and the politics of alterity: "What will we lose if we win?"
January 1, 1993... To talk about Hannah Arendt's "feminism" means admitting at the outset that she was strongly against "isms" of any kind, said little about women's issues, and sparked controversy when she did. As political philosopher, theorist, and historian,...

Positioning subjects and objects: agency, narration, relationality.
January 1, 1993... The world is full of black women who have never been heard from again. (Patricia Williams 1991, 193) Conceptually, it will become difficult for there to be a possibility of that space for any cultural performance ...

Feminism and hermeneutics.
January 1, 1993... A recent volume of essays entitled Feminism/Postmodernism and edited by Linda J. Nicholson (1990) suggests two sources for feminist theory's interest in postmodern philosophy. First, postmodern philosophy attacks the universalistic assumptions...

Self-trust, autonomy, and self-esteem.
January 1, 1993... The topic of trust is becoming a fashionable one in some philosophical circles, and rightly so. Working on this subject, I encountered what seems to me to be an important subtopic: the matter of self-trust. Self-trust is interesting in its own...

Marx, housework, and alienation. (Karl Marx)
January 1, 1993... I. For modern feminist theorists, housework and child rearing can be seen in very different and even opposed ways. They can be viewed as the most rewarding activity or as the greatest oppression. Rosaldo observes that "men have no...

Bartky, Domination, and the subject. (Sandra Lee Bartky) (Symposium on Sandra Lee Bartky's "Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression")
January 1, 1993... In Femininity and Domination, Sandra Bartky combines feminism, Marxism, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, conceptual analysis, and empirical social science to develop an account of the social construction of femininity and women's domination....

Possibilities for a nondominated female subjectivity. (Symposium on Sandra Lee Bartky's "Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression")
January 1, 1993... In the introduction to Femininity and Domination, Sandra Bartky talks about the importance of bringing one's political commitments to bear on whatever one is doing. And in turn, it is important to bring one's philosophical acumen and skilled...

Reading Bartky: identity, identificatioon, and critical self reflection. (Sandra Lee Bartky) (Symposium on Sandra Lee Bartky's "Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression")
January 1, 1993... What has drawn me to Sandra Bartky's theorizing is its honesty, clarity, and complexity crystallized in the form of essays such as those collected in Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression. Her theorizing provides...

Bribery and intimidation: a discussion of Sandra Lee Bartky's Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression. (Symposium on Sandra Lee Bartky's "Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression")
January 1, 1993... Over the years I have had the privilege of hearing most of the essays included in this volume when they were presented as works in progress at conferences of the Midwest Society for Women in Philosophy. Sandra Bartky's work has stimulated and...

Comments on Sandra Lee Bartky's Femininity and Domination. (Symposium on Sandra Lee Bartky's "Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression")
January 1, 1993... In reading Sandra Bartky's book I became very excited. What I found was an extremely clear, elegantly written analysis of many core feminist issues: What is a feminist? What are different modes of oppression? Is women's care giving...

In defense of femininity: commentary on Sandra Bartky's Femininity and Domination. (Symposium on Sandra Lee Bartky's "Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression")
January 1, 1993... I. Last summer, when I went to the Philippines to join in the celebration of my parents' fiftieth wedding anniversary, I brought Sandra Bartky's book along so that I might get some work done on this paper during the long plane trip and...

Reply to commentators on Femininity and Domination. (response to articles in this issue, p. 145) (Symposium on Sandra Lee Bartky's "Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression")
January 1, 1993... How fortunate to have commentators who understand what one is about! Indeed many of my commentators articulate better than I have myself my larger project. I wrote the papers in Femininity and Domination over a fifteen-year period, amid...

"Take Your Pill Dear": Kate Millett and psychiatry's dark side. (on the book "The Loony Bin Trip" by Kate Millett) (Review Essay)
January 1, 1993... The action begins at Kate's farm in Poughkeepsie in the summer of 1980 with her announcement that she has stopped taking lithium. She is 45. What happened was this. In 1973 her family had her detained in a mental hospital in California and...

Is Women's Philosophy Possible?
January 1, 1993... By NANCY J. HOLLAND. Savage, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1990. The answers to the question that the title of this book poses are "yes," "no," "maybe," but it's the "maybe" that is the most interesting. Holland begins by noting that there...

Justice, Gender, and the Family.
January 1, 1993... By SUSAN OKIN. New York: Basic Books, 1989. In her book Women in Western Political Thought, Susan Okin promised that her work would not only demonstrate how poorly political philosophers, both past and present, have treated women in their...

(Ex)tensions: Re-Figuring Feminist Criticism.
January 1, 1993... By ELIZABETH MEESE. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990. The clearest and most remarkable statement of the basic premise of Elizabeth Meese's second book of feminist criticism is this: "Writing is (like) a passionate affair of and in...