Hypatia articles from January 2005

Hypatia archives from January 2005

Moral theory in the fiction of Isabelle de Charriere: the case of Three Women.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2005... This article considers the philosophical interest of the fiction of Isabelle de Charriere, today known primarily as a novelist. The well-educated daughter of minor Dutch nobility, Charriere (1740-1806) lived first in the Netherlands and then in...

The productive power of ambiguity: rethinking homosexuality through the virtual and developmental systems theory.
January 1, 2005... What we have to do with banal facts is to discover--or try to discover-- which specific and perhaps original problem is connected to them --Michel Foucault In this paper I juxtapose two ways of thinking the indeterminacy of the body:...

Freud's Oedipus and Kristeva's Narcissus: three heterogeneities.
January 1, 2005... The major objective of this paper is to argue for the contributions that psychoanalysis makes to understanding the fate of nature in relation to culture. In a sense to be explored here, this is a question of the relationship between the fate of...

"The lost foundation": Kristeva's semiotic chora and its ambiguous legacy.
January 1, 2005... Julia Kristeva introduced the concept of the semiotic chora in La Revolution du Langage Poetique (1974) in the context of her "descent" (as she calls it) to the most "archaic" origins of language and the subject (83). In her foreword to this...

Queerness, disability, and The Vagina Monologues.(Intersex Society of America's V-day challenge)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2005... The "naming" of sex is an act of domination and compulsion, an institutionalized performative that both creates and legislates social reality by requiring the discursive/perceptual construction of bodies in accord with principles of sexual...

Reason, religion, and sexual difference: resources for a feminist philosophy of religion in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2005... When I first read G.W.F. Hegel's 1827 Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion (LPR), I warmed to his notion of spirit as "the absolute womb or the infinite fountain-head out of which everything emerges, into which everything returns, and in...

A defense of the feminist-vegetarian connection.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2005... Despite the goal of ending all forms of oppression, most feminists do not include the oppression of nonhuman animals within their praxis. This is not due to a lack of awareness. Standard arguments such as Peter Singer's Animal Liberation...

Simone de Beauvoir and the politics of privilege.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2005... In 1955, Simone de Beauvoir published a collection of essays entitled Privileges. She wrote in the Preface that one question linked all her essays together: how may the privileged think about their situation? They cannot think about it honestly...

Feminist Interpretations of David Hume.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Feminist Interpretations of David Hume. Edited by ANNE JAAP JACOBSON. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. Marina Frasca-Spada makes the following observation about relations among philosophy, its history, and its...

Line Drawings: Defining Women through Feminist Practice.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Line Drawings: Defining Women through Feminist Practice. By CRESSIDA HEYES. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. The work of a philosopher consists in assembling reminders for a particular purpose. --Ludwig Wittgenstein,...

A Feminist Cosmology: Ecology, Solidarity, and Metaphysics.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... A Feminist Cosmology: Ecology, Solidarity, and Metaphysics. By NANCY R. HOWELL. Amherst: Humanity Books, 2000. Is it possible for feminist theory to construct a cosmology that recognizes the multitude of possible perspectives generated by...

Genes, Women, and Equality.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Genes, Women, and Equality. By MARY MAHOWALD. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. In Genes, Women, and Equality, Mary Mahowald considers a variety of genetic technologies and interventions from a feminist perspective. As she states, her...

Resistance, Flight, Creation: Feminist Enactments of French Philosophy.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Resistance, Flight, Creation: Feminist Enactments of French Philosophy. Edited by DOROTHEA OLKOWSKI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. Publishers have told me that both feminism and edited collections of essays are no longer viable...

Women of Color and Philosophy.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Women of Color and Philosophy. Edited by NAOMI ZACK. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 2000. In 1772, a London publisher agreed to issue the work of Phillis Wheatley, provided that John and Susanna Wheatley--her owners/captors--could...

Feminist Interpretations of Martin Heidegger.(Book Notes)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Feminist Interpretations of Martin Heidegger. Ed. NANCY J. HOLLAND and PATRICIA HUNTINGTON. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001. Because feminist philosophers have not, as a whole, turned to the work of Martin...

Feminist Interpretations of Friedrich Nietzsche.(Book Notes)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Feminist Interpretations of Friedrich Nietzsche. Ed. KELLY OLIVER and MARILYN PEARSALL. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001. Despite his frequent attacks on women and the feminine, and the fact that these have...

Feminist Interpretations of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.(Book Notes)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Feminist Interpretations of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Ed. LYNDA LANGE. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002. There is much disagreement among feminist theorists regarding the extent and implications of sexism in...

Feminist Interpretations of Ludwig Wittgenstein.(Book Notes)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Feminist Interpretations of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Ed. NAOMI SCHEMAN and PEG O'CONNOR. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002. From a distance, Wittgenstein can appear as insignificant, or even inimical, to feminist...

Feminist Interpretations of W. V. Quine.(Book Notes)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Feminist Interpretations of W. V. Quine. Ed. LYNN HANKINSON NELSON and JACK NELSON. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003. Explored in this collection of essays is the question of whether Quine's calls for the...

Adoption.(MUSINGS)
January 1, 2005... I am one of those baby-boomers who "forgot to have children" until my early forties. Once we began trying, I was amazed, then distraught, when pregnancy didn't happen as it had, unplanned, when I was thirty, the very first time the birth...

Errata.(Correction Notice)
January 1, 2005... Due to an editing error, Colin Danby's essay, "Lupita's Dress: Care in Time" (vol. 19, no. 4), consistently refers to post-Keynesian economics when what was meant is Post Keynesian. Robin May Schott's essay, "The Atrocity Paradigm and the...

Books received.(Bibliography)
January 1, 2005... Alstott, Anne L. 2004. No exit: What parents owe their children and what society owes parents. New York: Oxford University Press. Baehr, Amy R., ed. 2004. Varieties of feminist liberalism. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. Boisseau,...