Hypatia articles from June 2000

Hypatia archives from June 2000

Conflicted love.
June 22, 2000... Our stereotypes of maternity and paternity as manifest in the history of philosophy and psychoanalysis interfere with the ability to imagine loving relationships. The associations of maternity with antisocial nature and paternity with...

Art, understanding, and political change.
June 22, 2000... Feminist artworks can be a resource in our attempt to understand individual identities as neither singular nor fixed, and in our related attempts both to theorize and to practice forms of connection to others that do not depend on shared...

The dilemma faced by Chinese feminists.
June 22, 2000... In this essay I argue that in any country, the realization of sexual equality requires a certain level of economic development. I support this general theme by examining a particular case--a dilemma faced by Chinese feminists today. I intend to...

Introduction to the symposium on Maria Pia Lara's Moral Textures: Feminist Narratives in the Public Sphere.(SYMPOSIUM)
June 22, 2000... Women's political activism has altered the contours of civil society across the globe, overturning liberal understandings of the private sphere, forcing the state to recognize mothers as political actors and not mere icons, and reconfiguring...

Educating the political imaginary.(SYMPOSIUM)
June 22, 2000... Maria Pia Lara's two books, La Democracia como proyecto de identidad etica and Moral Textures: Feminist Narratives in the Public Sphere are described and analyzed. Her contribution to a feminist left-Habermasian theory of the relationship...

Multiculturalism and publicity.(SYMPOSIUM)
June 22, 2000... This review considers the process of expansion of subjectivity that Maria Pia Lara introduces in Moral Textures: Feminist Narratives in the Public Sphere. As the complexity of Lara's understanding of multiculturalism is exhibited, the process...

A reply to my critics.(SYMPOSIUM)
June 22, 2000... My text is written to answer the questions asked at the APA Meeting's presentation of the book Moral Textures: Feminist Narratives in the Public Sphere by professors Maria Lugones and Eduardo Mendieta. The answer seeks to clarify that Lugones's...

Creatures of Prometheus: Gender and the Politics of Technology.
June 22, 2000... Creatures of Prometheus: Gender and the Politics of Technology. By TIMOTHY V KAUFMAN-OSBORNE. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1997. The increasingly networked and mediatized interactions of the information age have placed questions of...

Pragmatism and Feminism: Reweaving the Social Fabric.
June 22, 2000... Pragmatism and Feminism: Reweaving the Social Fabric. By CHARLENE HADDOCK SEIGFRIED. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. When Charlene Haddock Seigfried described the "eclipse of pragmatism," that is, the disappearance of pragmatism...

Bridging the social and the symbolic: toward a feminist politics of sexual difference.
June 22, 2000... By clarifying the psychoanalytic notion of sexual difference (and contrasting it with a feminist analysis of gender as social reality), I argue that the symbolic dimension of psychical life cannot be discarded in developing political accounts...

Real Knowing: New Versions of Coherence Theory.
June 22, 2000... Real Knowing: New Versions of Coherence Theory. By LINDA MARTIN ALCOFE Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996. Linda Alcoff's Real Knowing: New Versions of Coherence Theory is a timely contribution to a fast-growing body of research in...

The way out west: development and the rhetoric of mobility in postmodern feminist theory.
June 22, 2000... In this essay, I trace a rhetorical affinity between feminist postmodern theory and an Enlightenment narrative of development. This affinity consists in the valorization of mobility and the repudiation of locatedness. Although feminists deploy...

The end of phenomenology: Bergson's interval in Irigaray.
June 22, 2000... Luce Irigaray is often cited as the principle feminist who adheres to phenomenology as a method of descriptive philosophy. A different approach to Irigaray might well open the way to not only an avoidance of phenomenology's sexist tendencies,...

Crossing lovers: Luce Irigaray's Elemental Passions.
June 22, 2000... Luce Irigaray's Elemental Passions could be read as a response to Merleau-Ponty's article "The Intertwining--The Chiasm" in The Visible and the Invisible. Like Merleau-Ponty, Irigaray describes corporeal intertwining or vision and touch....

Conflicted Love.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2000... Our stereotypes of maternity and paternity as manifest in the history of philosophy and psychoanalysis interfere with the ability to imagine loving relationships. The associations of maternity with antisocial nature and paternity with...

Bridging the Social and the Symbolic: Toward a Feminist Politics of Sexual Difference.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2000... By clarifying the psychoanalytic notion of sexual difference (and contrasting it with a feminist analysis of gender as social reality), I argue that the symbolic dimension of psychical life cannot be discarded in developing political accounts...

The Way Out West: Development and the Rhetoric of Mobility in Postmodern Feminist Theory.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2000... In this essay, I trace a rhetorical affinity between feminist postmodern theory and an Enlightenment narrative of development. This affinity consists in the valorization of mobility and the repudiation of locatedness. Although feminists deploy...

The End of Phenomenology: Bergson's Interval in Irigaray.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2000... Luce Irigaray is often cited as the principle feminist who adheres to phenomenology as a method of descriptive philosophy. A different approach to Irigaray might well open the way to not only an avoidance of phenomenology's sexist tendencies,...

Crossing Lovers: Luce Irigaray's Elemental Passions.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2000... Luce Irigaray's Elemental Passions could be read as a response to Merleau-Ponty's article "The Intertwining--The Chiasm" in The Visible and the Invisible. Like Merleau-Ponty, Irigaray describes corporeal intertwining or vision and touch....

Art, Understanding, and Political Change.
June 22, 2000... Feminist artworks can be a resource in our attempt to understand individual identities as neither singular nor fixed, and in our related attempts both to theorize and to practice forms of connection to others that do not depend on shared...

The Dilemma Faced by Chinese Feminists.
June 22, 2000... In this essay I argue that in any country, the realization of sexual equality requires a certain level of economic development. I support this general theme by examining a particular case--a dilemma faced by Chinese feminists today. I intend to...

Introduction to the Symposium on Maria Pia Lara's Moral Textures: Feminist Narratives in the Public Sphere.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Women's political activism has altered the contours of civil society across the globe, overturning liberal understandings of the private sphere, forcing the state to recognize mothers as political actors and not mere icons, and reconfiguring...

Educating the Political Imaginary.
June 22, 2000... Maria Pia Lara's two books, La Democracia coma proyecto de identidad etica and Moral Textures: Feminist Narratives in the Public Sphere are described and analyzed. Her contribution to a feminist left-Habermasian theory of the relationship...

Multiculturalism and Publicity.
June 22, 2000... This review considers the process of expansion of subjectivity that Maria Pia Lara introduces in Moral Textures: Feminist Narratives in the Public Sphere. As the complexity of Lara's understanding of multiculturalism is exhibited, the process...

A Reply to My Critics.
June 22, 2000... My text is written to answer the questions asked at the APA Meeting's presentation of the book Moral Textures: Feminist Narratives in the Public Sphere by professors Maria Lugones and Eduardo Mendieta. The answer seeks to clarify that Lugones's...

Creatures of Prometheus: Gender and the Politics of Technology.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Creatures of Prometheus: Gender and the Politics of Technology. By TIMOTHY V. KAUFMAN-OSBORNE. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Little-field, 1997. The increasingly networked and mediatized interactions of the information age have placed questions...

Pragmatism and Feminism: Reweaving the Social Fabric.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Pragmatism and Feminism: Reweaving the Social Fabric. By CHARLENE HADDOCK SELOFRIED. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. When Charlene Haddock Seigfried described the "eclipse of pragmatism," that is, the disappearance of pragmatism...

Real Knowing: New Versions of Coherence Theory.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Real Knowing: New Versions of Coherence Theory. By LINDA MARTIN ALCOFF. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996. Linda Alcoff's Real Knowing: New Versions of Coherence Theory is a timely contribution to a fast-growing body of research in...