Hypatia articles from January 1996

Hypatia archives from January 1996

Relational rights and responsibilities: revisioning the family in liberal political theory and law.(Special Issue: the Family and Feminist Theory)
January 1, 1996... This article discusses three main orientations in recent works of legal and political theory about the family--contract-based, community-based, and rights-based-and argues that none of these takes adequate account of two paradoxical features...

Sexual orientation, gender, and families: dichotomizing differences.(Special Issue: the Family and Feminist Theory)
January 1, 1996... Throughout history, women and men have been seen as "opposites" in various respects. Examples from the writings of political theorists illustrate this point, while Virginia Woolf is shown to have departed radically from the general tendency to...

Toward a new feminist liberalism: Okin, Rawls, and Habermas.(Special Issue: the Family and Feminist Theory)
January 1, 1996... While Okin's feminist appropriation of Rawls's theory of justice requires that principles of justice be applied directly to the family, Rawls seems to require only that the family be minimally just. Rawls's recent proposal dulls the critical...

Antigone's ghost: undoing Hegel's 'Phenomenology of Spirit.'(Special Issue: the Family and Feminist Theory)
January 1, 1996... This essay argues that Hegel's discussion of the family in "The Ethical Order" section of Phenomenology of Spirit undermines the entire project of that text. Hegel's project demands that every element of consciousness be conceptualizable, and...

Sophie doesn't: families and counterstories of self-trust.(Special Issue: The Family and Feminist Theory)
January 1, 1996... Girls learn the lesson of cognitive deference most clearly, perhaps, growing up in patriarchal families. Taught to discount their own judgments and to depend on those of the family's dominant men, they lose self-trust and cannot take...

Human rights are women's right: Amnesty International and the family.(Special Issue: The Family and Feminist Theory)
January 1, 1996... This essay examines why the recent recognition of human rights violations against women, as exemplified by Amnesty International's 1995 report on women, remains bound to the limitations of traditional approaches to human rights. The essay...

Feminist challenges to the new familialism: lifestyle experimentation and the freedom of intimate association.(Special Issue: The Family and Feminist Theory)
January 1, 1996... The new familialists argue that the decline of the intact two-parent family is responsible for our most pressing social problems and advocate public policies designed to promote family stability and discourage divorce and nonmarital births....

Feminist inquiry and the transformation of the "public" sphere in Virginia Held's 'Feminist Morality.'(Special Issue: the Family and Feminist Theory)
January 1, 1996... Virginia Held's Feminist Morality defends the idea that is is possible to transform the "public" sphere by remaking it on the model of existing "private" relationships such as families. This paper challenges Held's optimism. It is argued that...

Reply to Moody-Adams. (response to Michele M. Moody-Adams' article in this issue, p. 155)(Special Issue: the Family and Feminist Theory)
January 1, 1996... I want first to express my appreciation to Michele Moody-Adams (1996) for her interesting review of my book, and for this opportunity to reply to it. I hope our exchange will exemplify the kinds of feminist discussion that many of us...

Questions of identity and inheritance: a critical review of Kwame Anthony Appiah's 'In My Father's House.'(Special Issue: the Family and Feminist Theory)
January 1, 1996... Judeo-Christian and Anglo-Saxon forms of marriage have injected patrilineal values and companionate expectations into the Akan matrilineal family structure. As Anthony Appiah demonstrates, these infusions have generated severe strains in the...

Human rights are women's right: Amnesty International and the family.
January 1, 1996... This essay examines why the recent recognition of human rights violations against women, as exemplified by Amnesty International's 1995 report on women, remains bound to the limitations of traditional approaches to human rights. The essay...

Feminist challenges to the new familialism: lifestyle experimentation and the freedom of intimate association.
January 1, 1996... The new familialists argue that the decline of the intact two-parent family is responsible for our most pressing social problems and advocate public policies designed to promote family stability and discourage divorce and nonmarital births....

Feminist inquiry and the transformation of the "public" sphere in Virginia Held's Feminist Morality.
January 1, 1996... Virginia Held's Feminist Morality defends the idea that it is possible to transform the "public" sphere by remaking it on the model of existing "private" relationships such as families. This paper challenges Held's optimism. It is argued that...

Reply to Moody-Adams.(COMMENT/REPLY)
January 1, 1996... I want first to express my appreciation to Michele Moody-Adams (1996) for her interesting review of my book, and for this opportunity to reply to it. I hope our exchange will exemplify the kinds of feminist discussion that many of us...

Questions of identity and inheritance: a critical review of Kwame Anthony Appiah's In My Father's House.(Company overview)
January 1, 1996... Judeo-Christian and Anglo-Saxon forms of marriage have injected patrilineal values and companionate expectations into the Akan matrilineal family structure. As Anthony Appiah demonstrates, these infusions have generated severe strains in the...

Sexual orientation, gender, and families: dichotomizing differences.
January 1, 1996... Throughout history, women and men have been seen as "opposites" in various respects. Examples from the writings of political theorists illustrate this point, while Virginia Woolf is shown to have departed radically from the general tendency to...

Relational rights and responsibilities: revisioning the family in liberal political theory and law.
January 1, 1996... This article discusses three main orientations in recent works of legal and political theory about the family--contract-based, community-based, and rights-based--and argues that none of these takes adequate account of two paradoxical features...

Toward a new feminist liberalism: Okin, Rawls, and Habermas.
January 1, 1996... While Okin's feminist appropriation of Rawls's theory of justice requires that principles of justice be applied directly to the family, Rawls seems to require only that the family be minimally just. Rawls's recent proposal dulls the critical...

Antigone's ghost: undoing Hegel's Phenomenology of spirit.
January 1, 1996... This essay argues that Hegel's discussion of the family in "The Ethical Order" section of Phenomenology of Spirit undermines the entire project of that text. Hegel's project demands that every element of consciousness be conceptualizable, and...

Sophie doesn't: families and counterstories of self-trust.
January 1, 1996... Girls learn the lesson of cognitive deference most clearly, perhaps, growing up in patriarchal families. Taught to discount their own judgments and to depend on those of the family's dominant men, they lose self-trust and cannot take themselves...