Hypatia articles from July 2008

Hypatia archives from July 2008

In memory of Iris.(Iris Young Marion)
July 1, 2008... The Iris I knew, the Iris I know, is the Iris who is not physically here with us, the Iris who had and who still has the power to draw us together and keep us together. It is this power of drawing us together that I want to talk about, and it...

Seeing oneself through the eyes of the other: asymmetrical reciprocity and self-respect.
July 1, 2008... Iris Marion Young argues we cannot understand others' experiences by imagining ourselves in their place or in terms of symmetrical reciprocity (1997a). For Young, reciprocity expresses moral respect and asymmetry arises from people's greatly...

Being torn: toward a phenomenology of unwanted pregnancy.
July 1, 2008... In Pregnant Embodiment: Subjectivity and Alienation, Iris Marion Young describes the lived bodily experience of women who have "chosen" their pregnancies. In this essay, Lundquist underscores the need for a more inclusive phenomenology of...

Power and the politics of difference: oppression, empowerment, and transnational justice.
July 1, 2008... This paper examines Young's conception of power, arguing that it is incomplete, in at least two ways. First, Young tends to equate the term power with the narrower notions of 'oppression' and 'domination'. Thus, Young lacks a satisfactory...

Interview with Iris Marion Young.(Interview)
July 1, 2008... Originally, the idea o f interviewing Iris Marion Young in Barcelona came about after she accepted an invitation to give a public lecture at the Law School of Pompeu Fabra University in May 2002. I had first met Iris back in 1999, at a...

Reflections on the metavirtue of sensitivity to suffering.
July 1, 2008... One of the deficiencies of much moral and political theory is that it fails to take much notice of the fact of oppression, the effect of oppression on agents' moral capacities, and the kinds of moral and political problems that are constitutive...

Virtues and oppression: a complicated relationship.
July 1, 2008... This paper raises some minor questions about Lisa Tessman's book, Burdened Virtues. Friedman's questions pertain, among other things, to the adequacy of a virtue ethical focus on character, the apparent implication of virtue ethics that...

Burdening the Burdened Virtues.
July 1, 2008... Lisa Tessman's Burdened Virtues: Virtue Ethics for Liberatory Struggles is a distinct and significant contribution to the feminist project of describing and analyzing oppression. Tessman is courageous in her willingness to confront topics that...

Reply to critics.
July 1, 2008... Tessman responds to her three critics' comments on Burdened Virtues, focusing on their concerns with her stipulation of an "inclusivity requirement," according to which one cannot be said to flourish without contributing to the flourishing of...

On Female Body Experience: Throwing Like a Girl and Other Essays.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... On Female Body Experience: Throwing Like a Girl and Other Essays. By IRIS MARION YOUNG. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. This review was written while Iris Marion Young was still vibrantly with us. Her voice remains in her absence....

Feminist praxis challenges the identity question: toward new collective identity metaphors.
July 1, 2008... The analysis of difference and identity questions brought Iris Marion Young to develop a metaphor of collective identity, the city, which included the diversity that characterizes all human groups. This article honors Iris Marion Young by...

Nietzsche's Dancers: Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, and the Revaluation of Christian Values.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Nietzsche's Dancers: Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, and the Revaluation of Christian Values. By KIMERER L. LAMOTHE. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006. In Nietzsche's Dancers: Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, and the Revaluation of Christian...

Family Matters: Feminist Concepts in African Philosophy of Culture.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Family Matters: Feminist Concepts in African Philosophy of Culture. By Nkiru Uwechia Nzegwu. Albany, N.Y: SUNY, 2006. Nkiru Uwechia Nzegwu's Family Matters joins important new scholarship that explores the previously neglected sources for...

Women's Liberation and the Sublime: Feminism, Postmodernism Environment.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Women's Liberation and the Sublime: Feminism, Postmodernism Environment. By BONNIE MANN. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Women's Liberation and the Sublime is a passionate, thought-provoking, and original book that sets out to...

Feminist Politics: Identity, Difference, and Agency.(BOOK NOTES)(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Feminist Politics: Identity, Difference, and Agency. Edited by Deborah Orr, Dianna Taylor, Eileen Kahl, Kathleen Earle, Christa Rainwater, and Linda Lopez McAlister. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. Drawing from various...

The Philosophy of Sex: Contemporary Readings.(BOOK NOTES)(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2008... The Philosophy of Sex: Contemporary Readings. 5th Ed. Edited by Alan Soble and Nicholas Power. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. This fifth edition of The Philosophy of Sex contains thirty contemporary essays that examine a variety...

Wittgenstein and the Moral Life: Essays in Honor of Cora Diamond.(BOOK NOTES)(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Wittgenstein and the Moral Life: Essays in Honor of Cora Diamond. Edited by Alice Crary. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007. As the title suggests, this collection is dedicated to Cora Diamond's work on Wittgenstein and moral philosophy. As such,...

Goodbye Hypatia, my friend.(MUSINGS)
July 1, 2008... Dear Hypatia, I can't believe it was almost five years ago that we both arrived at Michigan State University. Now it's time for you to move on to another university and I am sad to see you go. I have come to think of you as more than a...

Politics of difference and nationalism: on Iris Young's global vision.
July 1, 2008... Iris Marion Young's politics of difference promotes equality among socially and culturally different groups within multicultural states and advocates group autonomy to empower such groups to develop their own voice. Extending the politics of...

Home and identity: in memory of Iris Marion Young.
July 1, 2008... Drawing on Iris Marion Young's essay, "House and Home: Feminist Variations on a Theme," Weir argues for an alternative ideal of home that involves: (1) the risk of connection, and of sustaining relationship through conflict; (2) relational...

Self-determination, non-domination, and federalism.
July 1, 2008... This article summarizes the theory of federalism as non-domination Iris Marion Young began to develop in her final years, a theory of self-government that tried to recognize interconnectedness. Levy also poses an objection to that theory:...

Let's talk about the weather: decentering democratic debate about climate change.
July 1, 2008... In this paper, Bronwyn Hayward, a New Zealander, explores Iris Marion Young's argument for decentered deliberation in the context of climate change debate in the South Pacific. Young's criticisms of a centered approach to local planning are...

Confronting political responsibility: the problem of acknowledgment.
July 1, 2008... Iris Marion Young articulated a social connection model of responsibility to conceptualize political responsibility for structural injustice. Schiff argues that actually confronting our responsibility is problematic: the pervasiveness of...

In honor of Iris Marion Young: theorist and practitioner of justice: introduction.
July 1, 2008... Normative reflection arises from hearing a cry of suffering or distress, or feeling distress oneself. The philosopher is always socially situated, and if the society is divided by oppressions, she either reinforces or struggles against them....