Hypatia articles from June 1997

Hypatia archives from June 1997

Rethinking philosophy in the third wave of feminism.
June 22, 1997... The influence of feminist theory on philosophy has been less pervasive than it might have been. This is due in part to inherent tensions between feminist critique and the university as an institution, and to philosophy's place in the academy....

Moral responsibility and social change: a new theory of self.
June 22, 1997... The aim of this essay is to rethink classic issues of freedom and moral responsibility in the context of feminist and antiracist theories of male and white domination. If personal identities are socially constructed by gender, race and...

Anti-essentialism in practice: Carol Gilligan and feminist philosophy.
June 22, 1997... Third wave anti-essentialist critique has too often been used to dismiss second wave feminist projects. I examine claims that Carol Gilligan's work is "essentialist," and argue that her recent research requires this criticism be rethought....

Ending at the skin: sexuality and race in feminist theorizing.
June 22, 1997... Many feminists have found inspiration in Donna Haraway's myth of the cyborg (1990). From the standpoint of feminist bisexual identity, however, I contend that this myth evades the very issues of race and sexuality which it seems to be...

Making waves and drawing lines: the politics of defining the vicissitudes of feminism.
June 22, 1997... If there actually is a third wave of feminism, it is too close to the second wave for its definition to be clear and uncontroversial, a fact which emphasizes the political nature of declaring the existence of this third wave. Through an...

In praise of unreliability.
June 22, 1997... Bisexuality challenges familiar assumptions about love, family, and sexual desire that are shared by both heterosexual and homosexual communities. In particular, it challenges the assumption that a person's desire can and should run in only one...

Warning! Contents under heterosexual pressure.
June 22, 1997... This essay examines some stereotypes of bisexuals held by some lesbians. I argue that the decision that a lesbian makes not to become involved with a bisexual woman because she is bisexual can recenter men in lesbian desire, a consequence many...

Swear by the moon.
June 22, 1997... In this article I discuss the argument/criticism/concerns of bisexuality that arise from within progressive communities which already accept gay and lesbian rights. Issues discussed include trust, heterosexuality and the body, the power...

Charting the currents of the third wave.
June 22, 1997... The term "third wave" within contemporary feminism presents some initial difficulties in scholarly investigation. Located in popular-press anthologies, zines, punk music, and cyberspace, many third wave discourses constitute themselves as a...

The legacy of the personal: generating theory in feminism's third wave.
June 22, 1997... This essay focuses on the repeated rhetorical moves through which the third wave autobiographical subject seeks to be real and to speak as part of a collective voice from the next feminist generation. Given that postmodernist, postructuralist,...

Surfing the third wave: a dialogue between two third wave feminists.
June 22, 1997... As third wave feminist philosophers attending graduate schools in different parts of the country, we decided to use our e-mail discussion as the format for presenting our thinking on the subject of third wave feminism. Our dialogue takes us...

Mean spirits: the politics of contempt between feminist generations.
June 22, 1997... Current models for individuation in academe exacerbate generational tensions between second and third wave feminists. Feminist pedagogues must be wary of getting caught in the "vicious circle of contempt," where students are expected to...

Surfing the third wave: a dialogue between two third wave feminists.(Special Issue: Third Wave Feminisms)
June 22, 1997... From: Jo Trigilio To: Rita Alfonso Subject: Catching the third wave I am excited by our decision to write a dialogue through e-mail for the special issue of Hypatia on third wave feminism. I know that we did not decide whether we should...

Making waves and drawing lines: the politics of defining the vicissitudes of feminism.(Special Issue: Third Wave Feminisms)
June 22, 1997... There is something lovely about a wave. Gently swelling, rising and then crashing, waves evoke images of both beauty and power. As feminists, we could do much worse than be associated with this phenomenon. The significance of speaking of feminism...

Charting the currents of the third wave.(Special Issue: Third Wave Feminisms)
June 22, 1997... It was inevitable. A new generation of feminists is reworking what it variously perceives to be the successes and failures of the women's movement of the late sixties and seventies. In the past two or three years, the term "third wave"(1) has...

The legacy of the personal: generating theory in feminism's third wave.(Special Issue: Third Wave Feminisms)
June 22, 1997... Wave (n) 2c. A forward movement of a large body of persons (chiefly invaders or immigrants overrunning a country, or soldiers advancing to an attack), who either recede and return after an interval, or are followed after a time by another body of...

Mean spirits: the politics of contempt between feminist generations.(Special Issue: Third Wave Feminisms)
June 22, 1997... If university education means anything beyond the processing of human beings into expected roles, through credit hours, tests, and grades... it implies an ethical and intellectual contract between teacher and student. (Adrienne Rich, "Claiming...

Rethinking philosophy in the third wave of feminism.(Special Issue: Third Wave Feminisms)
June 22, 1997... A revolution in thought and ethics is needed if the work of sexual difference is to take place. We need to reinterpret everything concerning the relations between the subject and discourse, the subject and the world, the subject and the cosmic,...

Moral responsibility and social change: a new theory of self.(Special Issue: Third Wave Feminisms)
June 22, 1997... A paradigm shift in feminist thought has been developing between those who consider themselves modernists and those who embrace postmodernist or poststructuralist critiques of such positions. In a dynamic similar to the "naming games" of the...

Anti-essentialism in practice: Carol Gilligan and feminist philosophy.(Special Issue: Third Wave Feminisms)
June 22, 1997... How should feminist philosophers integrate "anti-essentialist" insights into feminist practice? Much contemporary feminist theory obscures this crucial question. Anti-essentialist critique is used to dismiss wholesale certain feminist claims,...

Ending at the skin: sexuality and race in feminist theorizing.(Special Issue: Third Wave Feminisms)
June 22, 1997... As imagined by Donna Haraway (1990), the cyborg is a being who represents creative possibilities in a time of crisis. By shaking up boundaries and categories thought to be inscribed in nature, the cyborg also challenges the familiar values that...

In praise of unreliability. (bisexuality)(Special Issue: Third Wave Feminisms)
June 22, 1997... Bisexuals have often been regarded as unreliable or untrustworthy, confused (and confusing), messy, unnatural (or more unnatural), and "in transition" or "unsettled" by majority and minority sexual cultures.(1) If we were only disturbing to...

Warning! Contents under heterosexual pressure.(Special Issue: Third Wave Feminisms)
June 22, 1997... The voices of lesbian feminists have been some of the strongest, most assuring, and most guiding voices in second wave feminism. Lesbian feminists and lesbian separatists were largely responsible for politicizing desire, sexuality, and sexual...

Swear by the moon. (bisexuality)(Special Issue: Third Wave Feminisms)
June 22, 1997... and even the stars and even the snow and even the rain do not amount to much unless these things submit to some disturbance some derangement such as when I yield myself/belonging to your unmistaken body . . . all things are dear that disappear...