Hypatia articles from June 1993

Hypatia archives from June 1993

Exclusion and essentialism in feminist theory: the problem of mothering.
June 22, 1993... The analysis of gender has been a central concern of feminist theory. Feminist analyses of gender address the meaning and explanatory power of this concept; the relationship of the body, sex and gender; the social significance of gender...

Moral reflection: beyond impartial reason.
June 22, 1993... Recent developments in the account of the self offered in some quarters of moral and political philosophy have paralleled ones taking place in feminist theory. In both areas of inquiry, the conception of the self has undergone a corrective...

Justice and care in close relationships.
June 22, 1993... The justice-care controversy has examined many aspects of the ethics of justice and the ethics of care relevant for interpersonal relationships.(1) While most theorists agree on the necessity to overcome the dualism between justice and care,(2)...

Reconstructing judgment: emotion and moral judgment.
June 22, 1993... A prominent criticism of traditional moral theory made by feminists (and others, e.g., Stocker 1976; Blum 1980; Wolf 1982; Hinman 1983; Baron 1984) is the subordination of feeling or emotion to reason or the exclusion of feeling from moral...

Julia Kristeva's feminist revolutions.
June 22, 1993... Julia Kristeva has become known for her rejection of feminism.(1) In spite of her hasty dismissal of feminism, however, Kristeva's theory can be made useful for feminist theory. In this essay, I make a case for a reconsideration of both...

Renaissance Madonnas and the fantasies of Freud.
June 22, 1993... The myth of the maternal feminine was given its contemporary form by Freud and includes as an essential part the belief that the story of Oedipus tells the truth about the original causes and objects of those desires of which all later ones are...

Women in political thought.
June 22, 1993... My central concern in this essay is with how the history of political thought should be approached and how it should be taught if it is to clarify fully our concerns as women. Many feminist writers who have addressed this question over the last...

The problem with contemporary moral theory. (response to Margaret Urban Walker Hypatia, vol. 7, p. 23, 1992)
June 22, 1993... In a recent essay in this journal, Margaret Urban Walker rejects "current moral theories" as inadequate, not (only) because they fail to account for the data of moral experience in the lives of real men and women, situated as they are in roles,...

Thinking morality interpersonally: a reply to Burgess-Jackson. (response to articl by Keith Burgess-Jones in this issue, p. 160)
June 22, 1993... In "Feminism, Ethics, and the Question of Theory" (Walker 1992), I claimed that diverse feminist criticisms of mainstream ethics (in still dominant Anglo-American academic and institutional discourses) were resisting a particular underlying...

Fry's concept of care in nursing ethics. (response to Sara T. Fry, Hypatia, vol. 4, no.2, p.88, 1989)
June 22, 1993... Nursing is one of the caring professions.(1) Thus, it seems to be a natural field for the application of the ethics of care pioneered by Gilligan (1982). Sara T. Fry undertakes this project in her paper, "The Role of Caring in a Theory of Nursing...

Erotic Welfare.
June 22, 1993... Une ethique sexuelle ou charnelle demanderait que puissent se trouver ensemble et l'ange et le corps. Un monde a construire ou reconstruire. . . . Du plus petit au plus grand, du plus intime au plus politique, une genese de l'amour entre les...

Science as Social Knowledge.
June 22, 1993... I. EVIDENTIAL RELEVANCE AND OBJECTIVITY There has always been a problem for empiricism about the way in which observations or data serve as evidence for a theory. Observations that scientists make are taken to be evidence for the theory, but...

Gender and Knowledge: Elements of a Postmodern Feminism.
June 22, 1993... I recently viewed the documentary Atomic Cafe, which is about how the atom bomb altered American culture. The film illustrates the way in which the atom bomb is a metaphor for the modernist episteme: the atomistic conception of self, the...