Hypatia articles from June 2001

Hypatia archives from June 2001

"New Mestizas," "'World'-Travelers," and "Dasein": phenomenology and the multi-voiced, multi-cultural self.
June 22, 2001... The aim of this essay is to carry out an analysis of the multi-voiced, multi-cultural self discussed by Latina feminists in light of a Heideggerian phenomenological account of persons or "Existential Analytic." In so doing, it (a) points out...

The birth of an identity: a response to Del McWhorter's Bodies and Pleasures.(SYMPOSIUM)
June 22, 2001... First, I engage Del McWhorter's confessional voice in the context of her thought and emphasize her claim that even "objective knowledge" often has an indirectly confessional aspect. Second, I give an account of the value of historicity and...

The revenge of the gay nihilist.(SYMPOSIUM)
June 22, 2001... Bodies and Pleasures has been characterized as a confessional discourse that manages to subvert confessional practice. Here it is characterized and discussed as an askesis that works to transform confessional practice as it transforms the...

Intersexuality and the categories of sex.(SYMPOSIUM)
June 22, 2001... Operations on intersexuals indicate that the sex of a person is based on more than biology. Expectations about proper gender activities furnish the frameworks through which certain features and combinations of features are understood to be...

Models and reality: when science tackles sex.(SYMPOSIUM)
June 22, 2001... Through a discussion of the way science has been used to address intersexuality, I explore an idea about how to understand science as objective and yet influenced by social, historical, and cultural factors. I propose that the Semantic View of...

Still fooling with mother nature.
June 22, 2001... In this essay I consider The Good-Natured Feminist: Ecofeminism and the Quest for Democracy by Catriona Sandilands (1999) and Ecofeminism as Politics: Nature, Marx and the Postmodern by Ariel Salleh (1997). Together these books on ecofeminism...

Public policy and the ethics of care.
June 22, 2001... Considered here are Eva Feder Kittay's Love's Labor (1999) and Mona Harrington's Care and Equality (1999). Although these books are written from very different disciplinary perspectives, Kittay and Harrington share the conviction that public...

Identity Without Selfhood: Bisexuality and Simone de Beauvoir.
June 22, 2001... Identity Without Selfhood: Bisexuality and Simone de Beauvoir. By MARIAM FRASER. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. In the introduction to Identity Without Selfhood: Bisexuality and Simone de Beauvoir, Mariam Fraser writes that...

Perspectives on Equality: Constructing a Relational Theory.
June 22, 2001... Perspectives on Equality: Constructing a Relational Theory. By CHRISTINE M. KOGGEL. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998. The goal of Christine Koggel's book is an ambitious one: to bring the insights of relational theory to bear on...

The Sounds of Feminist Theory.
June 22, 2001... The Sounds of Feminist Theory. By RUTH SALVAGGIO. Albany: SUNY Press, 1999. In The Sounds of Feminist Theory (1999), Ruth Salvaggio begins by claiming that the "metaphor of visibility" is a limited way of understanding the complexity of...

Black Venus: Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narratives in French.
June 22, 2001... Black Venus: Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narratives in French. By T. DENEAN SHARPLEY-WHITING. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999. Setting out to examine "French cultural, scientific, and literary representations...

Diagnosis: Difference: The Moral Authority of Medicine.
June 22, 2001... Diagnosis: Difference: The Moral Authority of Medicine. By ABBY L. WILKERSON. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. In this compact volume, Abby Wilkerson makes several important contributions to the burgeoning literature of feminist...

Subjectivity Without Subjects: From Abject Fathers to Desiring Mothers.
June 22, 2001... Subjectivity Without Subjects: From Abject Fathers to Desiring Mothers. By KELLY OLIVER. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998. Kelly Oliver's latest book, Subjectivity Without Subjects: From Abject Fathers to Desiring Mothers (1998),...

Problems of embodiment and problematic embodiment.
June 22, 2001... Using Judith Butler's notion that bodies are materialized via performances, "resignifying" disability involves a "democratizing contestation" of staircases because they exclude those in wheelchairs. Paleoanthropologist Maxine Sheets-Johnstone...

The look of love.
June 22, 2001... I begin to suggest an alternative to the notion of vision based in alienation and hostility put forth by Jean-Paul Sartre, Sigmund Freud, and Jacques Lacan. I diagnose this alienating vision as a result of a particular alienating notion of...

Why Kant and Ecofeminism don't mix.
June 22, 2001... This paper consists of two sections. In section one, I explore Val Plumwood's description of the features of normative dualism, and briefly discuss how these features are manifest in Immanuel Kant's view of nature. In section two, I evaluate...

Reading Ladelle McWhorter's Bodies and Pleasures.(SYMPOSIUM)
June 22, 2001... Ladelle McWhorter's Bodies and Pleasures provides an unusual and important reading of Michel Foucault's later work. This response is an effort to introduce McWhorter's project and to describe the challenge it presents to engage in askesis, the...

"New Mestizas," "'World'-Travelers," and "Dasein": Phenomenology and the Multi-Voiced, Multi-Cultural Self.(feminist philosophies of Latina writers)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... The aim of this essay is to carry out an analysis of the multi-voiced, multi-cultural self discussed by Latina feminists in light of a Heideggerian phenomenological account of persons or "Existential Analytic." In so doing, it (a) points out...

Problems of Embodiment and Problematic Embodiment.(significance for disability studies)
June 22, 2001... Using Judith Butler's notion that bodies are materialized via performances, "resignifying" disability involves a "democratizing contestation" of staircases because they exclude those in wheelchairs. Paleoanthropologist Maxine Sheets-Johnstone...

The Look of Love.(denigration of vision in modernism and psychoanalysis)
June 22, 2001... I begin to suggest an alternative to the notion of vision based in alienation and hostility put forth by Jean-Paul Sartre, Sigmund Freud, and Jacques Lacan. I diagnose this alienating vision as a result of a particular alienating notion of...

Why Kant and Ecofeminism Don't Mix.(Immanuel Kant and dualism)
June 22, 2001... This paper consists of two sections. In section one, I explore Val Plumwood's description of the features of normative dualism, and briefly discuss how these features are manifest in Immanuel Kant's view of nature. In section two, I evaluate...

Reading Ladelle McWhorter's Bodies and Pleasures.(assessing the Foucauldian critique)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... Ladelle McWhorter's Bodies and Pleasures provides an unusual and important reading of Michel Foucault's later work. This response is an effort to introduce McWhorter's project and to describe the challenge it presents to engage in askesis, the...

The Birth of an Identity: A Response to Del McWhorter's Bodies and Pleasures.(gay and lesbian perceptions)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... First, I engage Del McWhorter's confessional voice in the context of her thought and emphasize her claim that even "objective knowledge" often has an indirectly confessional aspect. Second, I give an account of the value of historicity and...

The Revenge of the Gay Nihilist.
June 22, 2001... Bodies and Pleasures has been characterized as a confessional discourse that manages to subvert confessional practice. Here it is characterized and discussed as an askesis that works to transform confessional practice as it transforms the...

Intersexuality and the Categories of Sex.(cultural frameworks and medical intervention)
June 22, 2001... Operations on intersexuals indicate that the sex of a person is based on more than biology. Expectations about proper gender activities furnish the frameworks through which certain features and combinations of features are understood to be...

Models and Reality: When Science Tackles Sex.(feminist philosophy)
June 22, 2001... Through a discussion of the way science has been used to address intersexuality, I explore an idea about how to understand science as objective and yet influenced by social, historical, and cultural factors. I propose that the Semantic View of...

Still Fooling with Mother Nature.(two books on ecofeminism and politics)(Review)
June 22, 2001... In this essay I consider The Good-Natured Feminist: Ecofeminism and the Quest for Democracy by Catriona Sandilands (1999) and Ecofeminism as Politics: Nature, Marx and the Postmodern by Ariel Salleh (1997). Together these books on ecofeminism...

Public Policy and the Ethics of Care.(two books on policy and caregivers)(Review)
June 22, 2001... Considered here are Eva Feder Kittay's Love's Labor (1999) and Mona Harrington's Care and Equality (1999). Although these books are written from very different disciplinary perspectives, Kittay and Harrington share the conviction that public...

Bisexuality and Simone de Beauvoir.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Identity Without Self hood: Bisexuality and Simone de Beauvoir: By MARIAM FRASER. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. In the introduction to Identity Without Self hood Bisexuality and Simone de Beauvoir, Mariam Fraser writes that...

Constructing a Relational Theory.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Perspectives on Equality: Constructing a Relational Theory. By CHRISTINE M. KOGGEL. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998. The goal of Christine Koggel's book is an ambitious one: to bring the insights of relational theory to bear on...

The Sounds of Feminist Theory.(Review)
June 22, 2001... The Sounds of Feminist Theory. By RUTH SALVAGGIO. Albany: SUNY Press, 1999. In The Sounds of Feminist Theory (1999), Ruth Salvaggio begins by claiming that the "metaphor of visibility" is a limited way of understanding the complexity of...

Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narratives in French.
June 22, 2001... Black Venus: Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narratives in French. By T. DENEAN SHARPLEY-WHITING. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999. Setting out to examine "French cultural, scientific, and literary representations...

The Moral Authority of Medicine.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Diagnosis: Difference: The Moral Authority of Medicine. By ABBY L. WILKERSON. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. In this compact volume, Abby Wilkerson makes several important contributions to the burgeoning literature of feminist...

From Abject Fathers to Desiring Mothers.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Subjectivity Without Subjects: From Abject Fathers to Desiring Mothers. By KELLY OLIVER. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998. Kelly Oliver's latest book, Subjectivity Without Subjects: From Abject Fathers to Desiring Mothers (1998),...