Hypatia articles from January 2002

Hypatia archives from January 2002

At the table with Arendt: toward a self-interested practice of coalition discourse.
January 1, 2002... This article draws from Hannah Arendt's theory of "inter-est" to formulate a model of coalition discourse that can coarticulate difference and commonality and approach them as mutually nourishing conditions rather than as polarities. By...

Ethics of care and concept of jen: a reply to Chenyang Li.(COMMENT/REPLY)
January 1, 2002... This comparative study of the ethics of care and the Confucian concept of jen argue against two assumptions made by Chenyang Li in his own study of these two traditions. Against him, I argue that a "feminine" morality is not adequate to address...

Revisiting Confucian jen ethics and feminist care ethics: a reply to Daniel Star and Lijun Yuan.(COMMENT/REPLY)
January 1, 2002... At two fronts I defend my 1994 article. I argue that differences between Confucian jen ethics and feminist care ethics do not preclude their shared commonalities in comparison with Kantian, utilitarian, and contractarian ethics, and that...

Responsibility ethics, shared understandings, and moral communities.(SYMPOSIUM)
January 1, 2002... Margaret Walker's Moral Understandings offers an "expressive-collaborative," culturally situated, practice--based picture of morality, critical of a "theoretical-juridical" picture in most prefeminist moral philosophy since Henry Sidgwick....

Narratives of responsibility and agency: reading Margaret Walker's Moral understandings.(SYMPOSIUM)
January 1, 2002... Naturalized moral epistemology eschews practices of assuming to know a priori the nature of situations and experiences that require moral deliberation. Thus it promises to close a gap between formal ethical theories and circumstances where...

Morality in practice: a response to Claudia Card and Lorraine Code.(SYMPOSIUM)
January 1, 2002... I briefly reprise a few themes of my book Moral Understandings in order to address some questions about responsibility and justification. I argue for a thoroughly situated and naturalized view of moral justification that warns us not to take...

Ideas in the mind: gender and knowledge in the seventeenth century.
January 1, 2002... "Neither doth our Sex delight or understand Philosophy." (Margaret Cavendish, 1664) It is well known that the seventeenth century was a great age of women writers. In many countries, from Europe to the Americas, women put pen to paper,...

Women's Voices, Women's Rights: Oxford Amnesty Lectures 1996.
January 1, 2002... Women's Voices, Women's Rights: Oxford Amnesty Lectures 1996. Edited by ALISON JEFFRIES. Boulder: Westview Press, 1999. Alison Jeffries advises us to read the essays in Women's Voices, Women's Rights as part of the debate between feminist...

Norms and Values: Essays on the Work of Virginia Held.
January 1, 2002... Norms and Values: Essays on the Work of Virginia Held. Edited by JORAM G. HABER and MARK S. HALFON. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998. I first came across Virginia Held's work when I read "Non-contractual Society," an essay that...

Ethical Vegetarianism: From Pythagoras to Peter Singer.
January 1, 2002... Ethical Vegetarianism: From Pythagoras to Peter Singer. Edited by KERRY S. WALTERS and LISA PORTMESS. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. Walters and Portmess present the reader with a valuable collection of arguments that...

Feeling Power: Emotions and Education.
January 1, 2002... Feeling Power: Emotions and Education. By MEGAN BOLER. New York, London: Routledge, 1999. Feeling Power is a bold and provocative book whose breadth of inquiry is stunning. Author Megan Boler sets out to rescue emotions from their devalued...

Disability, Difference, and Discrimination: Perspectives on Justice in Bioethics and Public Policy.
January 1, 2002... Disability, Difference, and Discrimination: Perspectives on justice in Bioethics and Public Policy. By ANITA SILVERS, DAVID WASSERMAN, and MARY B. MAHOWALD. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998. Disability studies, like other emergent...

Mother Time: Women, Aging, and Ethics.
January 1, 2002... Mother Time: Women, Aging, and Ethics. Edited by MARGARET URBAN WALKER. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999. This book arrived at a particularly pertinent time in my life. I just turned 65 and decided to "retire" from academia. I wish...

Inside/Outside Nietzsche: Psychoanalytic Explorations.
January 1, 2002... Inside/Outside Nietzsche: Psychoanalytic Explorations. By EUGENE VICTOR WOLFENSTEIN. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2000. If there is one word that describes Eugene Victor Wolfenstein's book, it is ambitious. This work ranges...

Gender, Place, and Identity: Understanding Feminist Geographies.
January 1, 2002... Gender, Place, and Identity: Understanding Feminist Geographies. By LINDA MCDOWELL. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. Linda McDowell's Gender, Place, and Identity is an introduction to feminist geographies. It is a careful...

The Power of Feminist Theory.
January 1, 2002... The Power of Feminist Theory. By AMY ALLEN. Boulder: Westview Press, 1999. "Why are feminists interested in power?" asks Amy Allen in her compelling and lucid book, The Power of Feminist Theory. Because we are interested in "understanding,...

Illusions of Paradox: A Feminist Epistemology Naturalized.
January 1, 2002... Illusions of Paradox: A Feminist Epistemology Naturalized. By RICHMOND CAMPBELL. Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998. Edrie Sobstyl "Paradox Tossed" Critics of feminist epistemology continue to focus their attention on early texts which,...

Why should a knower care?
January 1, 2002... This paper argues that the concept of care is significant not only for ethics, but for epistemology as well. After elucidating caring as a five-step dyadic relation, I go on to show its epistemic significance within the general framework of...

Do muscles matter?--Women and physical strength: a reply to Xinyan Jiang.(COMMENT/REPLY)
January 1, 2002... In Hypatia's (15) 3, issue, Xinyan Jiang describes a failed experiment in sexual equality conducted during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. She believes the lesson to be drawn from it is that males will continue to have an advantage in...

Reply to Jay Gallagher.(COMMENT/REPLY)
January 1, 2002... In response to Jay Gallagher's criticism, I emphasize that my article "The Dilemma Faced by Chinese Feminists" (2000) is aimed at showing how both the level of economic development and sexual difference are relevant to the realization of sexual...

Do Confucians really care? A defense of the distinctiveness of care ethics: a reply to Chenyang Li.(COMMENT/REPLY)
January 1, 2002... Chenyang Li argues, in an article originally published in Hypatia, that the ethics of care and Confucian ethics constitute similar approaches to ethics. The present paper takes issue with this claim. It is more accurate to view Confucian ethics...

Preface.(Hypatia)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... This issue marks the transition of Hypatia's editorial offices from the University of Oregon to The Pennsylvania State University. As always, Nancy and Laurie continue to coedit the journal thanks to electronic communications. There are...

At the table with Arendt: Toward a self-interested practice of coalition discourse.
January 1, 2002... This article draws from Hannah Arendt's theory of "inter-est" to formulate a model of coalition discourse that can coarticulate difference and commonality and approach them as mutually nourishing conditions rather than as polarities. By...

Why should a knower care?
January 1, 2002... This paper argues that the concept of care is significant not only for ethics, but for epistemology as well. After elucidating caring as a five-step dyadic relation, I go on to show its epistemic significance within the general framework of...

Do muscles matter?--Women and physical strength: A reply to Xinyan Jiang. (Comment/Reply).
January 1, 2002... In Hypatia's (15) 3, issue, Xinyan Jiang describes a failed experiment in sexual equality conducted during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. She believes the lesson to be drawn from it is that males will continue to have an advantage in...

Reply to Jay Gallagher. (Comment/Reply).
January 1, 2002... In response to Jay Gallagher's criticism, I emphasize that my article "The Dilemma Faced by Chinese Feminists" (2000) is aimed at showing how both the level of economic development and sexual difference are relevant to the realization of sexual...

Do confucians really care? A defense of the distinctiveness of care ethics: A reply to Chenyang Li. (Comment/Reply).
January 1, 2002... Chenyang Li argues, in an article originally published in Hypatia, that the ethics of care and Confucian ethics constitute similar approaches to ethics. The present paper takes issue with this claim. It is more accurate to view Confucian ethics...

Ethics of care and concept of Jen: A reply to Chenyang Li. (Comment/Reply).
January 1, 2002... This comparative study of the ethics of care and the Confucian concept of jen argue against two assumptions made by Chenyang Li in his own study of these two traditions. Against him, I argue that a "feminine" morality is not adequate to address...

Revisiting confucian jen ethics and feminist care ethics: A reply to Daniel Star and Lijun Yuan. (Comment/Reply).
January 1, 2002... At two fronts I defend my 1994 article. I argue that differences between Confucian jen ethics and feminist care ethics do not preclude their shared commonalities in comparison with Kantian, utilitarian, and contractarian ethics, and that...

Responsibility ethics, shared understandings, and moral communities. (Symposium).
January 1, 2002... Margaret Walker's Moral Understandings offers an "expressive-collaborative," culturally situated, practice-based picture of morality, critical of a "theoretical-juridical" picture in most prefeminist moral philosophy since Henry Sidgwick. This...

Narratives of responsibility and agency: Reading Margaret Walker's moral understandings. (Symposium).
January 1, 2002... Naturalized moral epistemology eschews practices of assuming to know a priori the nature of situations and experiences that require moral deliberation. Thus it promises to close a gap between formal ethical theories and circumstances where...

Morality in practice: A response to Claudia Card and Lorraine Code. (Symposium).
January 1, 2002... I briefly reprise a few themes of my book Moral Understandings in order to address some questions about responsibility and justification. I argue for a thoroughly situated and naturalized view of moral justification that warns us not to take...

Ideas in the mind: Gender and knowledge in the Seventeenth Century. (Review Essay).
January 1, 2002... "Neither doth our Sex delight or understand Philosophy." (Margaret Cavendish, 1664) It is well known that the seventeenth century was a great age of women writers. In many countries, from Europe to the Americas, women put pen to paper,...

Women's Voices, Women's Rights: Oxford Amnesty Lectures 1996. (Book Reviews).
January 1, 2002... Women's Voices, Women's Rights: Oxford Amnesty Lectures 1996. Edited by ALISON JEFFRIES. Boulder: Westview Press, 1999. Alison Jeffries advises us to read the essays in Women's Voices, Women's Rights as part of the debate between feminist...

Norms and Values: Essays on the Work of Virginia Held. (Book Reviews).
January 1, 2002... Norms and Values: Essays on the Work of Virginia Held. Edited by JORAM G. HABER and MARK S. HALFON. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998. I first came across Virginia Held's work when I read "Non-contractual Society," an essay that...

Ethical Vegetarianism: From Pythagoras to Peter Singer. (Book Reviews).
January 1, 2002... Ethical Vegetarianism: From Pythagoras to Peter Singer. Edited by KERRY S. WALTERS and LISA PORTMESS. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. Walters and Portmess present the reader with a valuable collection of arguments that...

Feeling Power: Emotions and Education. (Book Reviews).
January 1, 2002... Feeling Power: Emotions and Education. By MEGAN BOLER. New York, London: Routledge, 1999. Feeling Power is a bold and provocative book whose breadth of inquiry is stunning. Author Megan Boler sets out to rescue emotions from their devalued...

Disability, Difference, and Discrimination: Perspectives on Justice in Bioethics and Public Policy. (Book Reviews).
January 1, 2002... Disability, Difference, and Discrimination: Perspectives on Justice in Bioethics and Public Policy. By ANITA SILVERS, DAVID WASSERMAN, and MARY B. MAHOWALD. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998. Disability studies, like other emergent...

Mother Time: Women, Aging, and Ethics. (Book Reviews).
January 1, 2002... Mother Time: Women, Aging, and Ethics. Edited by MARGARET URBAN WALKER. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999. This book arrived at a particularly pertinent time in my life. I just turned 65 and decided to "retire" from academia. I wish...

Inside/Outside Nietzsche: Psychoanalytic Explorations. (Book Reviews).
January 1, 2002... Inside/Outside Nietzsche: Psychoanalytic Explorations. By EUGENE VICTOR WOLFENSTEIN. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2000. If there is one word that describes Eugene Victor Wolfenstein's book, it is ambitious. This work ranges...

Gender, Place, and Identity: Understanding Feminist Geographies. (Book Reviews).
January 1, 2002... Gender, Place, and Identity: Understanding Feminist Geographies. By LINDA MCDOWELL. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. Linda McDowell's Gender, Place, and Identity is an introduction to feminist geographies. It is a careful...

The Power of Feminist Theory. (Book Reviews).
January 1, 2002... The Power of Feminist Theory. By AMY ALLEN. Boulder: Westview Press, 1999. "Why are feminists interested in power?" asks Amy Allen in her compelling and lucid book, The Power of Feminist Theory. Because we are interested in "understanding,...

Illusions of Paradox: A Feminist Epistemology Naturalized. (Book Reviews).
January 1, 2002... Illusions of Paradox: A Feminist Epistemology Naturalized. By RICHMOND CAMPBELL. Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998. "PARADOX TOSSED" Critics of feminist epistemology continue to focus their attention on early texts which, while...