Hypatia articles from January 2001

Hypatia archives from January 2001

Tools for a cross-cultural feminist ethics: exploring ethical contexts and contents in the Makah whale hunt.(Company overview)
January 1, 2001... Antiracist white feminists and ecofeminists have the tools but lack the strategies for responding to issues of social and environmental justice cross-culturally, particularly in matters as complex as the Makah whale hunt. Distinguishing between...

Irigaray and Deleuze: Experiments in Visceral Philosophy.
January 1, 2001... Irigaray and Deleuze: Experiments in Visceral Philosophy. By TAMSIN LORRAINE. Ithaca: New York: Cornell University Press, 1999. In her latest book, Irigaray and Deleuze: Experiments in Visceral Philosophy (1999), Tamsin Lorraine not only...

Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism.
January 1, 2001... Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism. By UMA NARAYAN. New York: Routledge, 1997. Reviewing the emergent field of postcolonial feminist theory, Sara Mills remarks, "perhaps the most important area in which...

Textures of Light: Vision and Touch in Irigaray, Levinas and Merleau-Ponty.
January 1, 2001... Textures of Light: Vision and Touch in Irigaray, Levinas and Merleau-Ponty. By CATHRYN VASSELEU. New York: Routledge, 1998. In her book Textures of Light: Vision and Touch in Irigaray, Levinas and Merleau-Ponty (1998), Cathryn Vasseleu...

The Anatomy of Prejudices.
January 1, 2001... The Anatomy of Prejudices. By ELISABETH YOUNG-BRUEHL. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996. In The Anatomy of Prejudices (1996), Elisabeth Young-Bruehl critiques and synthesizes many approaches to understanding prejudices, thinking...

Dismantling the self/other dichotomy in science: towards a feminist model of the immune system.
January 1, 2001... Despite the development of a vast body of literature pertaining to feminism and science, examples of how feminist philosophies might be applied to scientific theories and practice have been limited. Moreover, most scientists remain unfamiliar...

Exploring a moral landscape: genetic science and ethics.
January 1, 2001... This project draws on scholarship of feminist and womanist scholars, and on results of interviews with scientists currently involved in molecular genetics. With reference to Margaret Urban Walkers "practices of moral responsibility, " the...

The death of the other/father: a feminist reading of Derrida's hauntology.
January 1, 2001... This paper addresses the question of whether Derrida's "hauntology," as developed in Specters of Marx and related texts, can be anything more than yet another repetition of a specifically male preoccupation with the Father inscribed on the...

Julia Gulliver as philosopher.(RECOVERING OUR PREDECESSORS)
January 1, 2001... This article introduces a little-known woman philosopher, Julia Gulliver, from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Following a biographical sketch, the article discusses four illustrations of Gulliver's philosophical work. These...

Revisioning Gender.
January 1, 2001... Revisioning Gender. Edited by MYRA MARX FEREE, JUDITH LORBER AND BETH B. HESS. London: Sage Publications, 1999. The aim of this collection is impressive: to reflect upon the development of gender analysis over the last twenty-five years and...

Analyzing the Different Voice: Feminist Psychological Theory and Literary Texts.
January 1, 2001... Analyzing the Different Voice: Feminist Psychological Theory and Literary Texts. Edited by JERILYN FISHER and ELLEN S. SILBER. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998. Philosophy has always recognized that we test our theories against...

The Complete Works of Harriet Taylor Mill.
January 1, 2001... The Complete Works of Harriet Taylor Mill. Edited by JO ELLEN JACOBS, assistant edited by PAULA HARMS PAYNE. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. The Complete Works of Harriet Taylor Mill (1998) promises to shed light on Taylor's...

Becoming Divine: Towards a Feminist Philosophy of Religion.
January 1, 2001... Becoming Divine: Towards a Feminist Philosophy of Religion. By GRACE M. JANTZEN. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. Philosophy of religion in Great Britain used to be synonymous with John Hick's books and business-as-usual out of...

Tools for a Cross-Cultural Feminist Ethics: Exploring Ethical Contexts and Contents in the Makah Whale Hunt.
January 1, 2001... Antiracist white feminists and ecofeminists have the tools but lack the strategies for responding to issues of social and environmental justice cross-culturally, particularly in matters as complex as the Makah whale hunt. Distinguishing between...

Dismantling the Self/Other Dichotomy in Science: Towards a Feminist Model of the Immune System.
January 1, 2001... Despite the development of a vast body of literature pertaining to feminism and science, examples of how feminist philosophies might be applied to scientific theories and practice have been limited. Moreover, most scientists remain unfamiliar...

Exploring a Moral Landscape: Genetic Science and Ethics.
January 1, 2001... This project draws on scholarship of feminist and womanist scholars, and on results of interviews with scientists currently involved in molecular genetics. With reference to Margaret Urban Walker's "practices of moral responsibility," the...

The Death of the Other/Father: A Feminist Reading of Derrida's Hauntology [1].
January 1, 2001... This paper addresses the question of whether Derrida's "hauntology," as developed in Specters of Marx and related texts, can be anything more than yet another repetition of a specifically male preoccupation with the Father inscribed on the...

Julia Gulliver As Philosopher.
January 1, 2001... This article introduces a little-known woman philosopher, Julia Gulliver, from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Following a biographical sketch, the article discusses four illustrations of Gulliver's philosophical work. These...

Revisioning Gender.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Revisioning Gender. Edited by MYRA MARX FEREE, JUDITH LORBER AND BETH B. HESS. London: Sage Publications, 1999. The aim of this collection is impressive: to reflect upon the development of gender analysis over the last twenty-five years and...

Analyzing the Different Voice: Feminist Psychological Theory and Literary Texts.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Analyzing the Different Voice: Feminist Psychological Theory and Literary Texts. Edited by JERILYN FISHER and ELLEN S. SILBER. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998. Philosophy has always recognized that we test our theories against...

The Complete Works of Harriet Taylor Mill.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Complete Works of Harriet Taylor Mill. Edited by JO ELLEN JACOBS, assistant edited by PAULA HARMS PAYNE. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. The Complete Works of Harriet Taylor Mill (1998) promises to shed light on Taylor's...

Becoming Divine: Towards a Feminist Philosophy of Religion.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Becoming Divine: Towards a Feminist Philosophy of Religion. By GRACE M. JANTZEN. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. Philosophy of religion in Great Britain used to be synonymous with John Hick's books and business-as-usual out of...

Irigaray and Deleuze: Experiments in Visceral Philosophy.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Irigaray and Deleuze: Experiments in Visceral Philosophy. By TAMSIN LORRAINE. Ithaca: New York: Cornell University Press, 1999. In her latest book, Irigaray and Deleuze: Experiments in Visceral Philosophy (1999), Tamsin Lorraine not only...

Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions, and Third-World Feminism.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions, and Third-World Feminism. By UMA NARAYAN, New York: Routledge, 1997. Reviewing the emergent field of postcolonial feminist theory, Sara Mills remarks, "perhaps the most important area in which...

Textures of Light: Vision and Touch in Irigaray, Levinas and Merleau-Ponty.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Textures of Light: Vision and Touch in Irigaray, Levinas and Merleau-Ponty. By CATHRYN VASSELEU. New York: Routledge, 1998. In her book Textures of Light: Vision and Touch in Irigaray, Levinas and Merleau-Ponty (1998), Cathryn Vasseleu...

The Anatomy of Prejudices.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Anatomy of Prejudices. By ELISABETH YOUNG-BRUEHL. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996. In The Anatomy of Prejudices (1996), Elisabeth Young- Bruehl critiques and synthesizes many approaches to understanding prejudices, thinking...