Hypatia articles from January 1997

Hypatia archives from January 1997

Domination and dialogue in Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception.
January 1, 1997... Merleau-Ponty's claim in Phenomenology of Perception (1962) that the anonymous body guarantees an intersubjective world is problematic because it omits the particularities of bodies. This omission produces an account of "dialogue" with another...

Toward a queer ecofeminism.
January 1, 1997... Although many ecofeminists acknowledge heterosexism as a problem, a systematic exploration of the potential intersections of ecofeminist and queer theories has yet to be made. By interrogating social constructions of the "natural," the various...

Sexuality, masculinity, and confession.
January 1, 1997... The practice of confessing one's sexual sins has historically provided boys and men with mixed messages. Engaging in coercive sex is publicly condemned; yet it is treated as not significantly different from other transgressions that can be...

From aperspectival objectivity to strong objectivity: the quest for moral objectivity.
January 1, 1997... Sandra Harding is working on the reconstruction of scientific objectivity. Lorraine Daston argues that objectivity is a concept that has historically evolved. Her account of the development of "aperspectival objectivity" provides an opportunity...

Feminist Interpretations of Mary Wollstonecraft.
January 1, 1997... Feminist Interpretations of Mary Wollstonecraft. By MARIA J. FALCO. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996. Maria J. Falco's Feminist Interpretations of Mary Wollstonecraft encompasses a broad range of issues...

What is a woman? Butler and Beauvoir on the foundations of the sexual difference.
January 1, 1997... The aim of this paper is to show that Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex has been mistakenly interpreted as a theory of gender, because interpreters have failed adequately to understand Beauvoir's aims. Beauvoir is not trying to explain facts,...

A critique of normative heterosexuality: identity, embodiment, and sexual difference in Beauvoir and Irigaray.
January 1, 1997... The distinction between heterosexuality and homosexuality does not allow for sufficient attention to be given to the question of non-normative heterosexualities. This paper develops a feminist critique of normative sexuality, focusing on...

Questions of proximity: "woman's place" in Derrida and Irigaray.
January 1, 1997... This article reconsiders the issue of Luce Irigaray's proximity to Jacques Derrida on the question of woman. I use Derrida's reading of Nietzsche in Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles (1979) and Irigaray's reading of Heidegger in L'Oubli de l'air...

Feminist philosophy and the philosophy of feminism: Irigaray and the history of western metaphysics.
January 1, 1997... Irigaray demonstrates that metaphysics depends upon the specific negation and exclusion of the female body. Readings of Irigaray's Speculum of the Other Woman tend to highlight the status of this excluded materiality: is there an essential...

Justice, care, and questionable dichotomies.
January 1, 1997... Throughout the development of an "ethic of care" different from an "ethic of justice," the relationship between the two has been problematic. Are they theories between which one must choose? Are they complementary? Are they domain-specific? In...