Hypatia articles from January 1999

Hypatia archives from January 1999

A queer supplement: reading Spinoza after Grosz.
January 1, 1999... This article critiques Elizabeth Grosz's understanding that queer theory is unproductive insofar as it disrupts the specific identities of gay and lesbian. Reconsidering ideas about desire, the body, and identity that Grosz takes from Gilles...

Pornography's many meanings: a reply to C.M. Concepcion.(COMMENT/REPLY)
January 1, 1999... C.M. Concepcion's review of "Pornography: An Uncivil Liberty?" (Carse 1995) fundamentally misconstrues the position defended in that article. This paper examines possible sources of this misconstrual, focusing critical attention on the narrowly...

Care ethics: moving forward.
January 1, 1999... The three books considered here take very different approaches within the developing area of feminist ethics that grow out of the work of Carol Gilligan and other theorists of care. Juxtaposing the books allows us to see some interesting...

Two feminist views on the self, identity and collective action.
January 1, 1999... The debate about the importance of identity, both individual and collective, is central to contemporary feminist theory. Two notable contributions to this debate are Allison Weir's Sacrificial Logics: Feminist Theory and the Critique of...

Justice Interruptus: Critical Reflections on the "Postsocialist" Condition.
January 1, 1999... Justice Interruptus: Critical Reflections on the "Postsocialist" Condition. By NANCY FRASER. New York: Routledge, 1997. It is not news that the U.S. Left has been suffering political paralysis. What is notable, and perhaps hopeful, is that...

Exceeding Hegel and Lacan: different fields of pleasure within Foucault and Irigaray.
January 1, 1999... Anglo-American embodiments of poststructuralist and French feminism often align themselves with the texts of either Michel Foucault or Luce Irigaray. Interrogating this alleged distance between Foucault and Irigaray, I show how it reinscribes...

Is Science Multicultural? Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies.
January 1, 1999... Is Science Multicultural? Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies. By SANDRA HARDING. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1998. Those of us in science studies who are aware that minorities (defined as black,...

The timing of feminism.
January 1, 1999... Is history a category of reason, or is reason a category of history? These opposing questions have divided the structuralist from the materialist--but neither question is wrong. Analysis of the logic of oppositions challenges feminism, in...

The feminist critique of reason revisited.
January 1, 1999... In this essay I distinguish four different modes of feminist critique of reason. Discussing the work of authors such as Keller, Irigaray, and Butler, I point out that the issue of masculine connotations has been addressed with regard to...

On the use of IVF by post-menopausal women.
January 1, 1999... Nonfeminist accounts of post-menopausal IVF reject the practice on four main grounds: 1) scarcity of resources; 2) fairness; 3) the "inappropriateness" of post-menopausal motherhood; and 4) concerns for orphaned children. I argue that these...

On pornography, representation and sexual agency.(COMMENT/REPLY)
January 1, 1999... I argue that Alisa Carse's call for antipornography legislation sets a potentially dangerous legal move that could threaten to shut off the dialogue women need to redefine the meanings and terms of our sexualities. I also argue that the terms...

A queer supplement: reading Spinoza after Grosz.(critique of Elizabeth Grosz's belief that queer theory is unproductive)
January 1, 1999... Elizabeth Grosz begins "Experimental Desire" (1993) by defining the main features that constitute oppression in order to point out the peculiar oppression of homophobia. In order to talk about homophobia, Grosz turns to the seventeenth century...

Exceeding Hegel and Lacan: different fields of pleasure within Foucault and Irigaray.
January 1, 1999... If language is a caressing of the phallus, as Luce Irigaray suggests in her early essay "This Sex Which Is Not One" (1985c),(1) if language is weaving always through the field of phallic pleasure and phallic desire - erecting new concepts that...

The timing of feminism.
January 1, 1999... Not only can I not think time without thinking; I cannot think it without also thinking thought. (Genevieve Lloyd, Being in Time) Feminism is brought to bear on metaphysics through the analysis it must make of difference. Of course, in...

The feminist critique of reason revisited.
January 1, 1999... The point of departure for a feminist critique of reason is that the concept of reason, in its everyday sense, has connotations of masculinity. The traditional image of gender difference characteristic of Western culture ascribes reason to men...

On the use of IVF by post-menopausal women.(in vitro fertilization)
January 1, 1999... Though new reproductive technologies (NRTs) have largely been marketed to young infertile women, an increasing number of post-menopausal women are taking advantage of this technology. Recently, a fifty-two-year-old Canadian woman who underwent...

On pornography, representation and sexual agency.(response to Alisa Carse, Hypatia, vol. 10, p. 155, 1995)
January 1, 1999... I argue that Alisa Carse's call for antipornography legislation sets a potentially dangerous legal move that could threaten to shut off the dialogue women need to redefine the meanings and terms of our sexualities. I also argue that the terms...

Pornography's many meanings: a reply to C.M. Concepcion.(response to Consuelo M. Concepcion in this issue, p. 97)
January 1, 1999... It is difficult to respond to criticisms directed against a view that has been attributed to me but is not mine. In her review of my paper, "Pornography: An Uncivil Liberty?" (Carse 1995), C.M. Concepcion ascribes to me the view against which I...

Moral Voices, Moral Selves.(Review)
January 1, 1999... The three books considered here take very different approaches within the developing area of feminist ethics that grow out of the work of Carol Gilligan and other theorists of care. Juxtaposing the books allows us to see some interesting...

Care, Gender, and Justice.(Review)
January 1, 1999... The three books considered here take very different approaches within the developing area of feminist ethics that grow out of the work of Carol Gilligan and other theorists of care. Juxtaposing the books allows us to see some interesting...

Caring: Gender-Sensitive Ethics.(Review)
January 1, 1999... The three books considered here take very different approaches within the developing area of feminist ethics that grow out of the work of Carol Gilligan and other theorists of care. Juxtaposing the books allows us to see some interesting...

Sacrificial Logics: Feminist Theory and the Critique of Identity.(Review)
January 1, 1999... The debate about the importance of identity, both individual and collective, is central to contemporary feminist theory. Two notable contributions to this debate are Allison Weir's Sacrificial Logics: Feminist Theory and the Critique of...

Feminisms and the Self: The Web of Identity.(Review)
January 1, 1999... The debate about the importance of identity, both individual and collective, is central to contemporary feminist theory. Two notable contributions to this debate are Allison Weir's Sacrificial Logics: Feminist Theory and the Critique of...

Justice Interruptus: Critical Reflections on the 'Postsocialist' Condition.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By NANCY FRASER. New York: Routledge, 1997. Rosemary Hennessy It is not news that the U.S. Left has been suffering political paralysis. What is notable, and perhaps hopeful, is that recent assessments are returning to the same telling...

Is Science Multicultural? Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By SANDRA HARDING. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1998. Ingrid Bartsch Those of us in science studies who are aware that minorities (defined as black, hispanic, and American Indian) received only 7% of...