Hypatia articles from January 2006

Hypatia archives from January 2006

Introduction: maternal bodies.(women philosophers opinion on maternity)(Column)
January 1, 2006... It gives me great pleasure to introduce Hypatia's special issue on maternal bodies. All of the essays in this issue take corporeal, socially embedded, agential maternal bodies as objects of theoretical attention in their own right. The essays...

Feminists on the inalienability of human embryos.
January 1, 2006... One of the many ethical issues with human embryo research--especially when the research involves the destruction of embryos--is that it risks commodifying, or resulting in the commodification of, that which perhaps ought not to be commodified,...

Strange anatomy: Gertrude Stein and the avant-garde embryo.(dead embroyos featured in a comic strip)(Column)
January 1, 2006... A few years ago, the politically conservative comic strip Mallard Fillmore depicted a Petri dish containing several small orbs. The thought bubbles emanating from one of the orbs read, "There are people who'd fight to the death for the spotted...

Reproductive freedom, self-regulation, and the government of impairment in utero.(Column)
January 1, 2006... Genetic testing and screening have rapidly developed as practices that produce knowledge about the genetic bases of an expanding number of ostensibly natural human characteristics and a host of risks posed to the integrity of that genetic...

Adoption, ART, and a re-conception of the maternal body: toward embodied maternity.
January 1, 2006... Feminists since Simone de Beauvoir have exposed the social construction of childbirth and motherhood. In The Second Sex, Beauvoir rocked the foundation of the patriarchal understanding of women's natural role and challenged the view that "it is...

13 short pieces, but not the whole [t]ruth.(personal narrative by pregnant women about pregnancy)(Author Abstract)
January 1, 2006... I remember I was young. I remember it was winter. I remember I wasn't supposed to go out back, but I went anyway. They, my parents, had lined up several ice cream buckets and filled them with water, and in those buckets were the kittens that...

Promising monsters: pregnant bodies, artistic subjectivity, and maternal imagination.
January 1, 2006... 1733 on 10 November with Maryken, wife of the servant to the orphanage. A son. But had a face like an ape. At the back of the neck an opening as big as a hand. Its genitals were also not as they should be. She had seen...

Shame, gender, birth.(giving birth was complicated earlier, today using technology it has become easy)(Column)
January 1, 2006... Only when the conscious experience of mothers, potential mothers, and mothering persons are taken fully into account can we possibly develop understanding that might someday merit the description of "human." --Virginia Held In an...

"Like a maternal body": Emmanuel Levinas and the motherhood of Moses.
January 1, 2006... In Otherwise than Being, Emmanuel Levinas compares ethical responsibility to a maternal body that bears the Other without integrating him or her into the same. To be responsible is to bear the Other under one's skin, in the flesh, and in spite...

Contamination and contagion: environmental toxins, HIV/AIDS, and the problem of the maternal body.
January 1, 2006... Breastfeeding is currently a highly contested practice in areas of the world with high rates of HIV infection, and it receives significant attention in the medical literature concerning mother-to-child transmission. In addition, HIV...

Ethics and ideology in breastfeeding advocacy campaigns.(Column)
January 1, 2006... Health-care systems have many intertwined layers: hospitals, community health centers, nursing homes, and other institutions work in concert, more or less messily, in order to care for the many and varying needs of different kinds of citizens....

Parents and children: an alternative to selfless and unconditional love.
January 1, 2006... In developing an account of valuable caring relationships between children and parents in this essay, I draw on philosophical accounts of care or love broadly conceived (Dillon 1992; Slote 2004; Velleman 1999) and of care or love in friendship...

Adoptive maternal bodies: a queer paradigm for rethinking mothering?
January 1, 2006... Describing families that depart substantially from traditional family forms as distinctively gay conceals the queerness of many heterosexual families.... Gays and lesbians have become family outlaws not because their relationships and...

Why Privacy Isn't Everything: Feminist Reflections on Personal Accountability.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Why Privacy Isn't Everything: Feminist Reflections on Personal Accountability. By ANITA ALLEN. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. In Why Privacy Isn't Everything: Feminist Reflections on Personal Accountability, Anita Allen offers a...

Miss morals speaks out about publishing.
January 1, 2006... Ludwig Wittgenstein once likened doing philosophy to swimming under water--there is an almost irresistible temptation to come up for air. Many of us, I daresay, feel the same way about writing for publication. We're tempted to surface when we...

Books received.
January 1, 2006... Afary, Janet, and Kevin B. Anderson. 2005. Foucault and the Iranian revolution: Gender and the seductions of Islamism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Agnesi, Maria Gaetana. 2005. The contest for knowledge: Debates over women's...