Hypatia articles from January 1994

Hypatia archives from January 1994

Responsibility and rhetoric.
January 1, 1994... I. RHETORICAL SPACES Issues of voice and position are as central to feminist philosophy in the 1990s as they are to other theoretical projects responding to the challenges of post-Enlightenment critiques. Telling "where you are coming from" is...

Politics without human nature? Reconstructing a common humanity.
January 1, 1994... I. INTRODUCTION Successful coalitions and political action require a substantial concept of common humanity grounded in an explicit notion of human nature.(1) An adequate conception of common humanity aids in the elimination of internalized...

Difference, intersubjectivity, and agency in the colonial and decolonizing spaces of Helene Cixous's "Sorties."
January 1, 1994... In "Sorties," a key essay in La jeune nee (Cixous 1986) Helene Cixous provides a foundational myth of "A Woman's Coming to Writing" by moving through key sites of Western philosophy, psychoanalysis, and classical literature and reading...

The Confucian concept of Jen and the feminist ethics of care: a comparative study.
January 1, 1994... The purpose of this paper is to compare two philosophies that have seldom been brought together, Confucianism and feminism. Specifically, I will compare the concept of Jen, the central concept of Confucian ethics, and the concept of care, the...

The virtues of feminist empiricism.
January 1, 1994... Broadly speaking, feminist empiricism is any epistemology that combines empiricist methodology with feminist political goals. It is a matter of controversy, however, whether this combination is viable. Many feminists believe that empiricist...

Rethinking sadomasochism: feminism, interpretation, and simulation.
January 1, 1994... Sadomasochism has often been considered by feminists to be a major epistemological and behavioral structure of male dominated societies.(1) Most often, this structure has manifested itself in the form of dominant males coercing and controlling...

Cartesianism and feminism: what reason has forgotten; reasons for forgetting. (Special Cluster: Spanish and Latin American Feminist Philosophy)
January 1, 1994... The project this paper undertakes is that of endowing feminism with its own critical memory. We need a feminist philosophical memory, one oriented toward the critical recovery of the past of our present--a memory that carefully informs the way we...

Women and natural hierarchy in Aristotle. (Special Cluster: Spanish and Latin American Feminist Philosophy)
January 1, 1994... According to Aristotle, the polis is the proper place for the development, growth, and perfection of man, because man is, first of all, a political animal.(1) It is in this manner that the organization of the state is by nature prior to each...

Gender and power. (Special Cluster: Spanish and Latin American Feminist Philosophy)
January 1, 1994... Men tell us how the world is, women what it is. (Cees Noteboom, Rituales) One of the greatest strengths of feminist thought is that it has arisen from an analysis of women's lives and from our own vision of existence. Women's authentic...

Feminist movements and their constitution as political subjects. (Special Cluster: Spanish and Latin American Feminist Philosophy)
January 1, 1994... The women's movement has been the most radical challenge to the best of the Left's traditional intellectual and political production. Alberto Melucci, "El tiempo de la diferencia" There is a kind of consensus among militant or merely...

Women's studies centers and programs in Latin America and Spain. (Special Cluster: Spanish and Latin American Feminist Philosophy)
January 1, 1994... ARGENTINA Area Interdisciplinaria de Estudios de la Mujer Facultad de Filosofia y Letras Universidad de Buenos Aires Puan 470, 4to Piso 1406 Buenos Aires, Argentina Fax: (541) 432-2292 Centro de Historia de las Mujeres Facultad de...

More thinking about gender: a response to Julie A. Nelson. (response to Julie A. Nelson, Hypatia, vol. 7, p.138, 1992) (Special Cluster: Spanish and Latin American Feminist Philosophy)
January 1, 1994... Julie A. Nelson's two-dimensional diagram or "gender/value compass" is a useful tool for understanding both positive and negative valuations of gender distinctions (Nelson 1992). Her diagram undermines the patriarchal conception of gender, where...

More thinking about gender: reply. (response to Patricia Elliot in this issue, p. 195) (Special Cluster: Spanish and Latin American Feminist Philosophy)
January 1, 1994... Patricia Elliot and I are both interested in getting rid of sexism. Elliot states she finds my gender/value compass a "useful tool," which pleases me. Our key disagreement is about whether the categories of masculine and feminine may have a place...

Women's Liberation and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution, 2d ed.
January 1, 1994... At a time when the notion of "the subject" has been under attack by postmodernists and post-structuralists, it is important to examine how these two socialist feminist works offer us different emancipatory feminist interpretations of...

The Straight Mind and Other Essays.
January 1, 1994... The publication by Beacon Press of Monique Wittig's The Straight Mind and Other Essays may be considered an important event for those interested in an epistemological revolution. The book provides the first convenient collection of Wittig's most...

The Outer Circle: Women in the Scientific Community.
January 1, 1994... It is becoming increasingly clear that the lives and careers of women in science are affected not only by discrimination, i.e., being treated differently from men, but also by the deep ways that gender--understood as a symbolic system of meanings...