Hypatia articles from June 2003

Hypatia archives from June 2003

Vampires, anxieties, and dreams: race and sex in the contemporary United States.
June 22, 2003... "philosophizing was always a kind of vampirism" --Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science There is a recurring dream, a nightmare, in the unconscious of these white United States. It is a dream of passion, violence, transgression,...

Girls blush, sometimes: gender, moral agency, and the problem of shame.
June 22, 2003... Girls blush sometimes because they are alive, Half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, And flare up bodily, wings...

Reading woman: displacing the foundations of femininity.
June 22, 2003... As a young girl in elementary school I was allowed to climb trees, hang upside-down on monkey bars, and play rough-and-tumble with boys in a white, working-class neighborhood, but as I hit puberty the demands to behave like a young lady became...

The sex of nature: a reinterpretation of Irigaray's metaphysics and political thought.(Luce Irigaray's concept of essentialism)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2003... The heated debates of the 1980s about Luce Irigaray's "essentialism" have died out, yet they raised fundamental questions concerning her philosophy which remain to be fully explored by feminist philosophers. At stake in these debates over...

Feminism, postmodernism, and psychological research.
June 22, 2003... To understand "women" as a permanent site of contest, or as a feminist site of antagonistic struggle, is to presume that there can be no closure on that category and that there ought never to be. That the category can never be...

Laboring women, coaching men: masculinity and childbirth education in the contemporary United States.
June 22, 2003... Feminists have written extensively about the ways in which reproductive technologies turn the natural process of conception, pregnancy, and birth into disempowering experiences for women. (1) Paradoxically, this medicalization of birth is...

The possibility of nationalist feminism.
June 22, 2003... Most Third World feminists consider nationalism as detrimental to feminism. Against this general trend, I argue that "polycentric" nationalism has potentials for advocating feminist causes in the Third World. "Polycentric" nationalism, whose...

Care ethics and virtue ethics.
June 22, 2003... The issue of the status of care ethics (CE) as a moral theory is still unresolved. If, as has been argued, CE cannot, and should not, constitute a comprehensive moral theory, and if care cannot be the sole foundation of such a theory, the...

Millett's rationalist error.(Kate Millett's critique of John Ruskin in Sexual Politics)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2003... 1. INTRODUCTION There lies, largely forgotten and in a seldom visited arena, a debate visited only occasionally by allies of each side. And perhaps Kate Millett's condemnation of John Ruskin in Sexual Politics (1977) should lie forgotten...

Body Talk: Philosophical Reflections on Sex and Gender.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... By JACQUELYN N. ZITA. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. Jacquelyn Zita's Body Talk constitutes a kaleidoscope of approaches and issues relating to contemporary body theory. Ranging across topics as diverse as Magic Johnson's body...

Women and Autobiography.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Edited by MARTINE WATSON BROWNLEY and ALLISON B. KIMMICH. Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, 2000. In Chinua Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah (1988), an elderly storyteller tells his audience that more important than politics is...

Going Native: Indians in the American Cultural Imagination.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... By SHARI M. HUHNDORF. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001. When I first heard that the theme of this book was "going native," impressions came fast and furious. White folks breaking loose, getting real, growing out their hair. Wearing...

Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... By JUDITH BUTLER. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. Judith Butler's most recent contribution, Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death, focuses on the character of Antigone from Sophocles' plays Antigone and Oedipus at...

Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Edited by MIMI REISEL GLADSTEIN and CHRIS MATTHEW SCIABARRA. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. Educators often observe with either chagrin or delight the continuing appeal of Ayn Rand to the young. It is...

Wounds of the Spirit: Black Women, Violence, and Resistance Ethics.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... By TRACI C. WEST. New York: New York University Press, 1999. Wounds of the Spirit is a complex book about a complex and difficult topic: black women's experience of "intimate violence," a term West uses to include domestic violence,...

The American Dream in Black and White: the Clarence Thomas Hearings.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... By JANE FLAX. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. In The American Dream in Black and White (1998), Jane Flax defends two theses about the significance of the Clarence Thomas hearings. First, she contends that they reveal important...

To Speak as a Judge: Difference, Voice, and Power.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... By SANDRA BERNS. Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, 1999. In To Speak as a Judge, Sandra Berns explores the intersection between feminist theory and claims to judicial authority. Judging, as Robert Cover trenchantly observed, "takes place...

Gilles Deleuze and the Ruin of Representation.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... By DOROTHEA OLKOWSKI. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. The publication of this book confirms the appropriation of Gilles Deleuze by feminist philosophers. A long-time contributor to Deleuze studies, Dorothea Olkowski argues...

Carnal Appetites: FoodSexIdentities.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... By ELSPETH PROBYN. London and New York: Routledge, 2000. The cover of Elspeth Probyn's latest book appears, at first glance, to feature a photograph of luscious candies--caramels, perhaps, or maybe soft chocolates. But wait, no, those are...

The "Weak" Subject: on Modernity, Eros and Women's Playwriting.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... By SERENA ANDERLINI-D'ONOFRIO. Cranbury, N.J.: Associated University Presses, 1998. A book entitled The "Weak" Subject that promises in the dust jacket to draw upon the work of Luce Irigaray in order to develop a theory of "labial mimesis"...

Call for papers.(Announcements)
June 22, 2003... Feminist Theory Special Issue: Feminist Theory and/of Science, Guest Edited by Susan M. Squier. Articles are invited that consider the relations between feminist theory and science, as well as feminist theories of science. Essays may vary...

Call for papers: Cultural Sites of Critical Insight.(Announcements)
June 22, 2003... We are seeking papers and presentations (20-25pp) that treat the cultural productions of women of color as sites of valuable reflection and insight in topics of philosophy, social theory, and aesthetics for a collection of criticism entitled...

Research interest.(Announcements)
June 22, 2003... Announcing a unique opportunity for joining the philosophical dialogue between East and West: A Research Group on women philosophers is being formed to promote Field-Being and non-substantialist thought. Field-Being is a philosophy that views...

Society for the Study of Women Philosophers.(Announcements)
June 22, 2003... The Society for the Study of Women Philosophers was founded in December 1987 at the annual conference of the American Philosophical Association. The Society is open to men and women from all disciplines and is constituted around the following...

Society for Women in Philosophy.(Announcements)
June 22, 2003... For information on SWIP membership, which includes receiving program announcements, the national SWIP newsletter, and a discount subscription to Hypatia, contact the SWIP chapter in your area: Eastern SWIP: Executive Secretary: Christa...

SWIP-L, an electronic mail list for feminist philosophers.(Announcements)
June 22, 2003... SWIP-L, an electronic mail list for feminist philosophers, is the e-mail information and discussion list for members of the Society for Women in Philosophy and others interested in feminist philosophy. To subscribe to this list send the...

Books received list.
June 22, 2003... Adamson, Joni, Mei Mei Evans, and Rachel Stein, eds. 2002. The environmental justice reader: polities, poetics, and pedagogy. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press. Albrecht, Gloria H. 2002. Hitting home: Feminist ethics, women's work,...