Hypatia articles from June 2002

Hypatia archives from June 2002

At home with Down syndrome and gender.(Report)
June 22, 2002... I argue that there is an important analogy between sex selection and selective abortion of fetuses diagnosed with Down syndrome. There are surprising parallels between the social construction of Down syndrome as a disability and the deeply...

The encounter between wonder and generosity.(Rene Descartes meets Luce Irigaray)
June 22, 2002... In a suggestive reading of Descartes's The Passions of the Soul (1989) in her book The Ethics of Sexual Difference (1993a), Irigaray argues that Descartes is right to place wonder as the first of all the passions and that wonder can provide the...

The situated self and utopian thinking.(Women Hurt in Systems of Prostitution Engaged in Revolt)
June 22, 2002... New utopias would have to derive their form from the shifting and dissolving movement of society that is gradually replacing the fixed locations of life. They would not be rational cities evolved by a philosopher's dialectic; they would...

Introduction.(Hypatia)(Editorial)
June 22, 2002... The articles in Part I of the Hypatia Special issue on Feminism and Disability addressed theoretical dimensions of women's disability identity. The articles in Part II have a more practical orientation. Some address issues arising from disabled...

Disabled women: an excluded agenda of Indian feminism.(discrimination in India)
June 22, 2002... INTRODUCTION I must submit at the beginning that my understanding of the issues and related questions has been predominantly influenced by my own experiences as a disabled Indian woman advocating for the other disabled people in India. My...

Virtual activists? Women and the making of identities of disability.(Women With Disabilities Australia)
June 22, 2002... POSITIONING THE SPEAKER When feminists with disabilities meet one another--often in cyberspace--we share a sense of frustration with many of the engagements we have with the world of the Other(s): men (with or without impairments), women...

At home with Down syndrome and gender.(genetic screening and abortion ethics)
June 22, 2002... Home is where an individual can most be herself. Home is where one does what one wants, wears what one wants and eats what one wants. At home, the walls are painted in a favorite color and the pictures on the walls reflect one's personal...

Genetic counseling and the disabled: feminism examines the stance of those who stand at the gate.(analysis)
June 22, 2002... Imperfection is the essence of being organic and alive. Organic life is vulnerable; it inevitably ends in disintegration. This is part of its beauty. Joan Tollifson, "Imperfection Is a Beautiful Thing" The present essay...

A moral conversation on disability: risking the personal in educational contexts.(disabled children and education, United States)
June 22, 2002... Scholars from the humanities have recently begun to explore disability across social, cultural, and political registers in an effort to expand the meaning of humanity. This nascent field of inquiry known as Humanities-Based Disability Studies...

Negotiating mutuality and agency in care-giving relationships with women with intellectual disabilities.(L'Arche interactive living philosophy, Canada)
June 22, 2002... "I learn to help my heart by all the people listening." --woman with intellectual disability "Her journey touches mine and challenges me to go beyond my safe place." --caregiver The stories in this article are based on an...

Introduction to the symposium on Eva Kittay's Love's Labor: Essays on Women, Equality and Dependency.(disability and feminism)
June 22, 2002... The publication of Eva Kittay's Love's Labor in 1999 was a significant event in American moral and political philosophy for more than one reason. (1) First, Kittay's book puts issues of disability on the agenda of moral and political...

Love's Labor in the health care system: working toward gender equity.(Love's Labor: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency)
June 22, 2002... I. INTRODUCTION Feminist health care ethicists raise concerns about health-related gender disparities that traditional health care ethicists either have not raised or have raised somewhat weakly. But they do more than this. They formulate...

An appreciation of Love's Labor.(Love's Labor: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency)
June 22, 2002... Love's Labor: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency is a welcome addition to feminist critiques of liberal theory and of the ideal of equality. It will surely contribute to a feminist ethics of care that is committed to justice for and...

The tasks of embodied love: moral problems in caring for children with disabilities.
June 22, 2002... Rooted in the concept of the autonomous individual, secular moral theory has little place for persons in need of constant physical help and cognitive support, nor for those who provide care for them. Religious ethics, on the other hand, while...

Love's Labor revisited.(caring for dependents)
June 22, 2002... Love's Labor was launched by a rather modest ambition: to respond to a request to write a paper addressing the elusiveness of women's quest for equality. I concluded that neither critiques of the way in which feminists had pursued equality nor...

Feminist Perspectives on Disability. 2000.
June 22, 2002... Feminist Perspectives on Disability. 2000. By BARBARA FAWCETT. London: Pearson Education. Barbara Fawcett's book, Feminist Perspectives on Disability, accomplishes the formidable task of drawing together two fields of literature that bear...

Families: Law, Gender and Difference.(Defining the Family: Law, Technology, and Reproduction in an Uneasy Age)(Sex Preference, and Family: Essays in Law and Nature)
June 22, 2002... Defining the Family: Law, Technology, and Reproduction in an Uneasy Age. By JANET L. DOLGIN. New York: New York University Press, 1997. Sex Preference, and Family: Essays in Law and Nature. By David M. ESTLUND and MARTHA C. NUSSBAUM. New...

Victimization and Consent.(New Versions of Victims: Feminists Struggle with the Concept)(Consent: Sexual Rights and the Transformation of American Liberalism)
June 22, 2002... New Versions of Victims: Feminists Struggle with the Concept. Edited by SHARON LAMB. New York: New York University Press, 1999. Consent: Sexual Rights and the Transformation of American Liberalism. By PAMELA HAAG. Ithaca: Cornell University...

Fire with Water: Generations and Genders of Western Political Thought.
June 22, 2002... Fire with Water: Generations and Genders of Western Political Thought. By ALLISON DUBE. Calgary, Canada: Parhelion Press, 1998. Is there a feminine way of thinking and being? This century-long debate has currently two sides: one...

Resentment and the "Feminine" in Nietzsche's Politico-Aesthetics.
June 22, 2002... Resentment and the "Feminine" in Nietzsche's Politico-Aesthetics. By CAROLINE JOAN S. PICART. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. In Resentment and the "Feminine" in Nietzsche's Politico-Aesthetics (1999), Caroline...

Enigmas: Essays on Sarah Kofman.
June 22, 2002... Enigmas: Essays on Sarah Kofman. Edited by PENELOPE DEUTSCHER and KELLY OLIVER. Ithaca: N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1999. What does it mean to be a philosopher? What does it mean to be a woman philosopher? What does it mean to be a...

Fortune Is a Woman: Gender and Politics in the Thought of Niccolo Machiavelli. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2002... Fortune Is a Woman: Gender and Politics in the Thought of Niccolo Machiavelli. By HANNA FENICHEL PITKIN. [2.sup.d] ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. It is rare indeed that a book becomes a "classic" almost from the day it is...

Psychoanalyses/Feminisms. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2002... Psychoanalyses/Feminisms. Edited by PETER L. RUDNYTSKY and ANDREW M. GORDON. New York: State University of New York Press, 2000. Psychoanalyses/Feminisms is a provocative collection of articles that emerged from a conference sponsored by...

Emotional Rescue: The Theory and Practice of a Feminist Father. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2002... Emotional Rescue: The Theory and Practice of a Feminist Father. By ISAAC D. BALBUS. New York: Routledge, 1998. Many feminist scholars concerned with epistemology acknowledge that the dichotomy between the personal and the professional is a...

Making Sense of Taste. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2002... Making Sense of Taste. By CAROLYN KORSMEYER. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. This is a book about taste--the thing your tongue (and nose) do. It's also a book about Taste--the thing the art critic has. It's a book about food, art,...

Sex Acts: Practices of Femininity and Masculinity. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2002... Sex Acts: Practices of Femininity and Masculinity. By JENNIFER HARDING. London/Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1998. Headlined "The Science of Women's Sexuality," the cover story in a recent issue of Newsweek magazine describes...

Theorizing Multiculturalism: A Guide to the Current Debate. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2002... Theorizing Multiculturalism: A Guide to the Current Debate. Edited by CYNTHIA WILLET. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 1998. In MultiAmerica: Essays on Cultural Wars and Cultural Peace, Ishmael Reed argues "Monoculturalism [in contrast...

Errata.(Correction Notice)
June 22, 2002... Vol. 17, No. 1 (Winter 2002) Error 1. [in Responsibility Ethics, Shared Understandings, and Moral Communities] (Some might be extended to other animals as well, on the grounds of our common sentience, as Singer argues [1975,...

Books received.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... Agamben, Giorgio. 1999. The remnants of Auschwitz: The witness and the archive. Trans. Daniel Heller-Roazen. New York: Zone Books. Allen, Carolyn, and Howard, Judith A. 2000. Feminisms at a millennium. Chicago: The University of Chicago...