Hypatia articles from June 1994

Hypatia archives from June 1994

Identity, knowledge and Toni Morrison's 'Beloved': questions about understanding racism.
June 22, 1994... Arguably, one of the most significant contributions of feminist theory to ethics and political theory in general is insistence that the concepts and terms in which information and events are understood and questions are formulated cannot be taken...

Claire loves Julie: reading the story of women's friendship in 'La Nouvelle Heloise.'
June 22, 1994... I am sorry to break off so abruptly. Are there no men present? Do you promise me that behind that red curtain over there the figure of Sir Chartres Biron is not concealed? We are all women, you assure me? Then I may tell you that the very next...

Being dismissed: the politics of emotional expression.
June 22, 1994... It was my experience that when confronted with a feminist complaint that I did not agree with (typically because I did not understand it) I attempted to disprove the validity of the complaint. . . . I would contend that offense required two...

Abortion ethics: rights and responsibilities.
June 22, 1994... I. LIBERAL RIGHTS In dealing with reproductive control, the women's liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s imbibed liberal individual goals of equality, rights, and choice. These goals often translated into thinking of equality as sameness...

An immodest proposal: Foucault, hysterization and the "second rape." (Michel Foucault)
June 22, 1994... There are many respects in which the social thought of Michel Foucault is a rich resource for feminist theory. Foucault's rejection of the notion of self-contained subjectivity provides a perspective from which to critique the idea that women's...

The ethic of care vis-a-vis the ethic of rights: a problem for contemporary moral theory.
June 22, 1994... I. INTRODUCTION Carol Gilligan has delineated two ethics, the ethic of rights and the ethic of care. The implications of this work have reverberated throughout both academic and nonacademic circles. In this article I focus on the wider...

"The lot of gifted ladies is hard": a study of Harriet Taylor Mill criticism.
June 22, 1994... Who can tell a life? How can I reconstruct the inside, not merely the shell, of another? Margaret Atwood quotes the end of Arnold Bennett's biography by Margaret Drabble: "Many a time, . . . reading a letter or a piece of his journal, I have...

Philosophizing crossdresser; or, who does what things with which words? (poem)
June 22, 1994... "let us speak from a position of queerness" "queer is the name of a space of politics and thinking, of conflictual possibilities" "the most efficient way to expose or demystify an existing practice is to suggest an alternative practice"...

Feminist philosophy after twenty years between discrimination and differentiation: introductory reflections.
June 22, 1994... Feminism is undoubtedly the most important social movement of the second half of the 20th century and the challenge and vitalization it has brought to philosophy is considerable. The question posed by feminist philosophers twenty years ago...

On the possibility of feminist philosophy.
June 22, 1994... When Carol Gould asked me to be on this panel to discuss feminist philosophy after twenty years and told me that the other panelists would be Ann Ferguson and Kathy Addelson--two of the more influential and important practitioners of feminist...

Twenty years of feminist philosophy.
June 22, 1994... In this article I shall argue that we can't really understand the contemporary debates in feminist philosophy, and indeed in feminist theory in general, of which feminist philosophy is but a subset, without seeing how the project of feminist...

Feminist philosophy and the women's movement.
June 22, 1994... In reviewing twenty years of feminist philosophy, I found myself asking, "What is feminist philosophy?" I know (as Ann Ferguson said) that there is now a canon that defines it, and a list of experts and practitioners. It counts as an area of...

Women and language in Susan Griffin's 'Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her.'
June 22, 1994... A definition of language is always, implicitly or explicitly, a definition of human beings in the world.--Raymond Williams, Marxism and Literature (1977) Ecology as a concept and as a social movement asks us to question the assumptions and...