Hypatia articles from June 1998

Hypatia archives from June 1998

Border crossings: multicultural and postcolonial feminist challenges to philosophy.(Part II)
June 22, 1998... This is the second issue of a two-part collection of papers. In the introduction to the first issue (Spring 1998), we noted how so much of contemporary feminist thinking refuses to be contained either by the familiar borders of the disciplines...

Maquiladora mestizas and a feminist border politics: revisiting Anzaldua.
June 22, 1998... This essay argues that a new, politicized mestiza is emerging within the cultural borderlands of the Mexico-U.S. divide. She works in the upper ranks of the multinational maquiladoras and raises many challenges for a feminist theorization of a...

Burnt offerings to rationality: a feminist reading of the construction of indigenous peoples in Enrique Dussel's theory of modernity.
June 22, 1998... The philosopher Enrique Dussel offers a critical analysis of European construction of indigenous peoples which he calls "transmodern." His theory is especially relevant to feminist and other concerns about the potential disabling effects of...

Gender, development, and post-enlightenment philosophies of science.
June 22, 1998... Recent "gender, environment, and sustainable development" accounts raise pointed questions about the complicity of Enlightenment philosophies of science with failures of Third World development policies and the current environmental crisis. The...

Impossible Dreams: Rationality, Integrity, and Moral Imagination.
June 22, 1998... Impossible Dreams: Rationality, Integrity, and Moral Imagination. By SUSAN E. BABBITT Boulder, Co.: Westview Press, 1997. "God created me to be a slave, just as he created a camel to be a camel." The New York Times (Sunday, 12 October,...

Feminists Rethink the Self.
June 22, 1998... Feminists Rethink the Self. Edited by DIANA TIETJENS MEYERS. Boulder: Westview Press, 1997. Feminists Rethink the Self, edited by Diana Meyers, is an excellent collection. Feminist philosophers who do moral psychology will find here the...

The Roots of Thinking.
June 22, 1998... The Roots of Thinking. By MAXINE SHEETS-JOHNSTONE. Philadelphia. Temple University Press, 1990. The Roots of Power: Animate Form and Gendered Bodies. By MAXINE SHEETS-JOHNSTONE. Chicago. Open Court, 1994. A creature's corporeal...

The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Gendered Phenomenologies, Erotic Generosities.
June 22, 1998... The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Gendered Phenomenologies, Erotic Generosities.By DEBRA B. BERGOFFEN. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1997. Sex and Existence: Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex. By EVA...

Locating traitorous identities: toward a view of privilege-cognizant white character.
June 22, 1998... I address the problem of how to locate "traitorous" subjects, or those who belong to dominant groups yet resist the usual assumptions and practices of those groups. I argue that Sandra Harding's description of traitors as insiders, who "become...

Multiculturalism as a cognitive virtue of scientific practice.
June 22, 1998... I argue that science will be better, by its own criteria, if it pursues multiculturalism, by which I mean an ethnic- and gender-diverse set of scientists. I argue that minority and women scientists will be more likely to recognize false,...

What should white people do?
June 22, 1998... In this paper I explore white attempts to move toward a proactive position against racism that will amount to more than self-criticism in the following three ways: by assessing the debate within feminism over white women's relation to...

It's all in the family: intersections of gender, race, and nation.
June 22, 1998... Intersectionality has attracted substantial scholarly attention in the 1990s. Rather than examining gender, race, class, and nation as distinctive social hierarchies, intersectionality examines how they mutually construct one another. I explore...

Dualisms, discourse, and development.
June 22, 1998... This essay reviews a body of literature on feminism, development, and knowledge construction. This literature rejects essentialist constructions of women, challenges the universality of the Western scientific method, and creates a discursive...

Resisting the veil of privilege: building bridge identities as an ethico-politics of global feminisms.
June 22, 1998... Northern researchers and service providers espousing modernist theories of development in order to understand and aid countries and peoples of the South ignore their own non-universal starting points of knowledge and their own vested interests....

What should white people do? (combatting racism)(Special Issue: Border Crossings: Multicultural and Postcolonial Feminist Challenges to Philosophy, part 2)
June 22, 1998... In the movie Dances with Wolves (1991), Kevin Costner plays a white Union soldier stationed on the Indian frontier who undergoes a political transformation. He comes to realize that the native peoples his militia intends to kill are not the...

Locating traitorous identities: toward a view of privilege-cognizant white character.(Special Issue: Border Crossings: Multicultural and Postcolonial Feminist Challenges to Philosophy, part 2)
June 22, 1998... I had begun to feel pretty irregularly white. Klan folks had a word for it: race traitor. Driving in and out of counties with heavy Klan activity, I kept my eye on the rear-view mirror, and any time a truck with a confederate flag passed me, the...

Multiculturalism as a cognitive virtue of scientific practice.(Special Issue: Border Crossings: Multicultural and Postcolonial Feminist Challenges to Philosophy, part 2)
June 22, 1998... Despite nearly two decades of pathbreaking feminist epistemological research and writing and almost as many years of work on postcolonial and racial critiques of science, the mainstream of philosophical literature has yet to absorb the lessons of...

It's all in the family: intersections of gender, race, and nation.(Special Issue: Border Crossings: Multicultural and Postcolonial Feminist Challenges to Philosophy, part 2)
June 22, 1998... When former vice president Dan Quayle used the term family values near the end of a speech at a political fundraiser in 1992, he apparently touched a national nerve. Following Quayle's speech, close to three hundred articles using the term family...

Dualisms, discourse, and development. (analysis of literature on feminism, economic development and knowledge construction)(Special Issue: Border Crossings: Multicultural and Postcolonial Feminist Challenges to Philosophy, part 2)
June 22, 1998... The language of development economics reads like a chapter in the Enlightenment dream, a dream that promised an orderly progress from poverty and ignorance to prosperity and modernity. It is a discourse infused with the Enlightenment ideal of...

Resisting the veil of privilege: building bridge identities as an ethico-politics of global feminisms.(Special Issue: Border Crossings: Multicultural and Postcolonial Feminist Challenges to Philosophy, part 2)
June 22, 1998... THE NEED FOR BRIDGE IDENTITIES A number of feminist researchers interested in issues of global development (cf. among others, Calas and Smircich 1996; Harding 1998) have maintained that those who provide Northern funded social services and...

'Maquiladora mestizas' and a feminist border politics: revisiting Anzaldua.(Special Issue: Border Crossings: Multicultural and Postcolonial Feminist Challenges to Philosophy, part 2)
June 22, 1998... IMAGINING THE BORDER Along stretches of the Mexico-U.S. border, a new mestiza is emerging. Her language is Spanish, English, and "Spanglish," and her job is in the maquiladoras.(1) Sometimes she has a college degree, but often she has simply...

Burnt offerings to rationality: a feminist reading of the construction of indigenous peoples in Enrique Dussel's theory of modernity.(Special Issue: Border Crossings: Multicultural and Postcolonial Feminist Challenges to Philosophy, part 2)
June 22, 1998... In his book The Invention of the Americas, the philosopher Enrique Dussel (1995) makes an important and interesting contribution to the critical analysis of European modernity and colonization that includes an approach to the critique of modern...

Gender, development, and post-enlightenment philosophies of science.(Special Issue: Border Crossings: Multicultural and Postcolonial Feminist Challenges to Philosophy, part 2)
June 22, 1998... A VIEW FROM THE EXTREMITIES OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT Since World War II, Northern agencies have tried to modernize the so-called underdeveloped societies of the South so that their standards of living would catch up to those in the North. Yet there...

Impossible Dreams: Rationality, Integrity, and Moral Imagination.
June 22, 1998... By SUSAN E. BABBITT. Boulder, Co.: Westview Press, 1997. Margaret Urban Walker "God created me to be a slave, just as he created a camel to be a camel." The New York Times (Sunday, 12 October, 1997, p. 56) reports these words of Fatma Mint...

Feminist Rethink the Self.
June 22, 1998... Edited by DIANA TIETJENS MEYERS. Boulder: Westview Press, 1997. Sue Campbell Feminists Rethink the Self, edited by Diana Meyers, is an excellent collection. Feminist philosophers who do moral psychology will find here the first collection...

The Roots of Thinking.
June 22, 1998... By MAXINE SHEETS-JOHNSTONE. Philadelphia. Temple University Press, 1990. Janet Varner Gunn A creature's corporeal consciousness is first and foremost a consciousness attuned to the movement and rest of its own body. (Maxine...

The Roots of Power: Animate Form and Gendered Bodies.
June 22, 1998... By MAXINE SHEETS-JOHNSTONE. Chicago. Open Court, 1994. Janet Varner Gunn A creature's corporeal consciousness is first and foremost a consciousness attuned to the movement and rest of its own body. (Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, "Consciousness: A...

The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Gendered Phenomenologies, Erotic Generosities.
June 22, 1998... By DEBRA B. BERGOFFEN. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1997. Kate Fullbrook and Edward Fullbrook Simone de Beauvoir died in 1986 with her high achievement as a philosopher largely unrecognized. Although excellent work...

Sex and Existence: Simone de Beauvoir's 'The Second Sex.'
June 22, 1998... The Second Sex. By EVA LUNDGREN-GOTHLIN. Translated by Linda Schenk. London: Athlone, 1996. Kate Fullbrook and Edward Fullbrook Simone de Beauvoir died in 1986 with her high achievement as a philosopher largely unrecognized. Although...

Philosophy as Passion: The Thinking of Simone de Beauvoir.
June 22, 1998... By KAREN VINTGES. Translated by Anne Lavelle. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1996. Kate Fullbrook and Edward Fullbrook Simone de Beauvoir died in 1986 with her high achievement as a philosopher largely unrecognized. Although...