Hypatia articles from January 2008

Hypatia archives from January 2008

Care ethics and impartial reasons: B. C. Postow, 1945-2007.(Betsy Postow)(Critical essay)(Obituary)
January 1, 2008... Editor's note: It is with great sadness that we note the untimely death of Betsy Postow, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her colleague, Richard Aquila, wrote: Those who knew her even slightly will...

Interval, sexual difference: Luce Irigaray and Henri Bergson.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2008... Henri Bergson's philosophy has attracted increasing feminist attention in recent years as a fruitful locus for re-theorizing temporality. Drawing on Luce Irigaray's well-known critical description of metaphysics as phallocentrism, Hill argues...

Abortion, killing, and maternal moral authority.
January 1, 2008... A threat to women is obscured when we treat "abortion-as-evacuation" as equivalent to "abortion-as-killing." This holds only if evacuating a fetus kills it. As technology advances, the equivalence will fail. Any feminist account of abortion...

From feminist thinking to ecological thinking: determining the bounds of community.(SYMPOSIUM: LORRAINE CODE'S ECOLOGICAL THINKING)
January 1, 2008... That Lorraine Code's Ecological Thinking is a feminist book even though neither "feminism" nor "gender" appears in the title is not at all surprising in this day and age, when feminist projects have expanded beyond strict concerns of gender,...

How ecological should epistemology be?
January 1, 2008... Ecology studies the dynamic interdependence of living systems. Ecological epistemology does the same, focusing on the living systems that generate knowledge. Epistemology, of course, should be ecological, since knowledge is almost always...

Epistemic responsibility and ecological thinking.
January 1, 2008... In bringing together the central topic of Lorraine Code's new book, Ecological Thinking (2006), with that of her first book, Epistemic Responsibility (1987), I want to draw attention to the location of her topics and positions in in-between...

Ecological thinking and epistemic location: the local and the global.
January 1, 2008... I was in the audience for a book panel on Lorraine Code's book, What Can She Know? Feminist Theory and the Construction of Knowledge (1991), held at the 1992 annual meeting of the Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA). It was at those...

Thinking about ecological thinking.(Editorial)
January 1, 2008... To begin, I would like to thank the contributors to this symposium for the time and thought they have devoted to preparing their responses to Ecological Thinking. As in the best of such situations, it is especially gratifying to recognize how...

Sex Change, Social Change: Reflections on Identity, Institutions, and Imperialism.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Sex Change, Social Change: Reflections on Identity, Institutions, and Imperialism. By VIVIANE NAMASTE. Toronto: Women's Press, 2005. Sex Change, Social Change is a short volume consisting of essays, speeches, interviews, and letters by...

Tete-a-Tete: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Tete-a-Tete: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre. By HAZEL ROWLEY. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. In Tete-a-Tete, Hazel Rowley, a biographer of Christina Stead and Richard Wright, breaks new ground by presenting the first comprehensive...

The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, and Global.
January 1, 2008... The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, and Global. By VIRGINIA HELD. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. In this important book, Virginia Held assesses the current state of the discussion on care, presents her own thoughtful recent...

Reconceiving Women's Equality in China: A Critical Examination of Models of Sex Equality.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Reconceiving Women's Equality in China: A Critical Examination of Models of Sex Equality. By LIJUN YUAN. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2005. Reconceiving Women's Equality in China comprises five sections that guide readers through a dark...

Challenging Liberalism: Feminism as Political Critique.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Challenging Liberalism: Feminism as Political Critique. By LISA H. SCHWARTZMAN. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. How do the twin methodological approaches of individualism and abstraction turn liberalism from...

Feminist Interpretations of Maurice Merleau-Ponty.(BOOK NOTES)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Feminist Interpretations of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Edited by Dorothea Olkowsi and Gail Weiss. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. This edited collection, which is part of the Re-Reading the Canon series edited...

Prostitution and Pornography: Philosophical Debate about the Sex Industry.(BOOK NOTES)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Prostitution and Pornography: Philosophical Debate about the Sex Industry. Edited by Jessica Spector. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2006. The goal of this collection is to "bring together an assortment of writings about the...

Socializing Care: Feminist Issues and Public Issues.(BOOK NOTES)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Socializing Care: Feminist Issues and Public Issues. Edited by Maurice Hamington and Dorothy C. Miller. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. Defining "the concept of socializing care as the theoretical understanding and application of...

The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvior: Critical Essays.(BOOK NOTES)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvior: Critical Essays. Edited by Margaret A. Simons. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. The Fall 1999 Special Issue of Hypatia (Vol. 14, no. 4), titled "The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir," forms...

Writing what comes naturally?(MUSINGS)(autobiography writing)
January 1, 2008... As a young philosopher, I was taught to keep my life out of my scholarly work. Who you are was not supposed to make its appearance in what you wrote. Shortly after I was promoted to full professor, however, and for reasons that will appear...

"Keeping it in the family": Sarah Kofman reading Nietzsche as a Jewish woman.(Friedrich Nietzsche)
January 1, 2008... This article examines Sarah Kofman's interpretation of Nietzsche in light of the claim that interpretation was for her both an articulation of her identity and a mode of deconstructing the very notion of identity. Faulkner argues that Kofman's...

Privileged standpoints/ reliable processes.
January 1, 2008... This article attempts to reconcile Sandra Harding's postmodernist standpoint theory with process reliabilism in first-order epistemology and naturalism in metaepistemology. Postmodernist standpoint theory is best understood as consisting of an...

Climbing like a girl: an exemplary adventure in feminist phenomenology.
January 1, 2008... This essay uses the phenomenal advent of women's climbing as a paradigm case for integrating feminism and phenomenology, and for analyzing how women experience and evolve free movement and existence. In contrast to the paradigm set by Iris...

Being-from-others: reading Heidegger after Cavarero.(Martin Heidegger and Adriana Cavarero)
January 1, 2008... Drawing on Adriana Cavarero's account of natality, Guenther argues that Martin Heidegger overlooks the distinct ontological and ethical significance of birth as a limit that orients one toward an other who resists appropriation, even while...