Hypatia articles from June 2004

Hypatia archives from June 2004

"It can happen to you": rape prevention in the age of risk management.
June 22, 2004... In the 1980s and 1990s, the paternalistic myth of women's vulnerability donned the neoliberal cloak of risk management. It was a move befitting the new rationality of government emerging in the United States and other postindustrial nations at...

A European initiative: Irigaray, Marx, and citizenship.
June 22, 2004... From her first publications in the early 1970s, Luce Irigaray has signalled her distance from the thought of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, and it may be said that subsequent political events in Eastern Europe have not conspired to render this...

Sex, race, and biopower: a foucauldian genealogy.
June 22, 2004... For at least two decades now feminists have been asserting vehemently that sex, race, and class intersect to form identities and social positions. (1) Vehement assertion has seemed necessary, because to forget the fact that race and class make...

Mary Astell: including women's voices in political theory.
June 22, 2004... But to what study shall we apply ourselves?... [W]hen they would express a particular Esteem for a Woman's Sense, they recommend History;... tho' it may be of Use to the Men who govern Affairs, to know how their Fore-fathers Acted, yet...

Individuals-in-communities: the search for a feminist model of epistemic subjects.
June 22, 2004... The question of epistemic subjects, or of "who is it that knows?" is central to epistemology. Feminist epistemologists have been quick to point out that much of classical epistemology has relied on a very individualistic reading of the...

The Sisyphean torture of housework: Simone de Beauvoir and inequitable divisions of domestic work in marriage.
June 22, 2004... In the course of conducting interviews I have overheard husbands demand of their wives: "Why are there no socks in the drawer?" "Isn't dinner ready? I said I'd be home early tonight!" I have also heard them issue orders such as "Clean up...

Schutte's Nietzschean postcolonial politics.(Symposium)
June 22, 2004... For the younger, less pessimistic Hegel, philosophy is not merely a manifestation of its culture but also capable of providing a critical response. In a post-9/11 world, the philosophical work of Ofelia Schutte provides some of the most...

Engaging Nietzsche's women: Ofelia Schutte and the Madres de la Plaza de Mayo.(Symposium)
June 22, 2004... We have long abandoned the idea of the disinterested philosopher. The issues we choose to engage, the ways in which we engage them--none of this is anonymous. It is as a person that I am a philosopher. It is because I deem a particular...

Comments on Ofelia Schutte's work in feminist philosophy.(Symposium)
June 22, 2004... I am delighted to be a part of a panel that honors the contributions of Ofelia Schutte. Not only is she an old friend of mine, but I have learned a lot from reading her work that has aided me in the development of my own ideas. We are both...

Response to Alcoff, Ferguson, and Bergoffen.(Symposium)
June 22, 2004... I am both grateful and honored that Linda Alcoff, Debra Bergoffen, and Ann Ferguson agreed to comment on the occasion of the panel held on my work at the 2001 SPEP conference. I thank them for their insightful readings of my published work and...

Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... The Science and Social World of Sex and Sexuality: A Review of Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality by ANNE FAUSTO-STERLING. New York: Basic Books, 2000; and The Mismeasure of Desire: The Science, Theory, and...

Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Feminist Spaces: Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space by STACY ALAIMO. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2000; Architecture from the Outside: Essays on Virtual and Real Space by ELIZABETH GROSZ. Canbridge: MIT Press,...

Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights.(Book Reviews; Prenatal Testing: A Review of Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights)(Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America )(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Prenatal Testing: A Review of Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights, ed. ERIK PARENS and ADRIENNE ASCH. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2000; and Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America by...

Rediscovering Women Philosophers: Philosophical Genre and the Boundaries of Philosophy.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Rediscovering Women Philosophers: Philosophical Genre and the Boundaries of Philosophy. By CATHERINE VILLANUEVA GARDNER. Boulder: Westview Press, 2000. Catherine Gardner's book contains five studies, each discussing a different feminist...

Just Cause: Freedom, Identity, and Rights.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Just Cause: Freedom, Identity, and Rights. By DRUCILLA CORNELL. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000. In the past decade, Drucilla Cornell has emerged as one of the most interesting feminist theorists writing today, bringing her...

Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What To Do About It.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What To Do About It. By JOAN WILLIAMS. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Several decades ago saw fervent feminist activism in the streets, in the media, on college campuses, and even...

Phenomenology of Chicana Experience and Identity: Communication and Transformation in Praxis.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Phenomenology of Chicana Experience and Identity: Communication and Transformation in Praxis. By JACQUELINE M. MARTINEZ. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000. Jacqueline Martinez's book, Phenomenology of Chicana Experience...

Waiter, there's a fly in my soup! Reflections on the Philosophical Gourmet Report.(Musings)(Editorial)
June 22, 2004... Editor's note: with this essay, Hypatia inaugurates a new column. We welcome musings on the state of the profession, the life of the independent scholar, political activism, teaching, publishing, or other topics of interest to feminist...

Notes on contributors.
June 22, 2004... LINDA MARTIN ALCOFF is Professor of Philosophy, Political Science, and Women's Studies at Syracuse University. Her books include Feminist Epistemologies, coedited with Elizabeth Potter; Real Knowing: New Versions of the Coherence Theory of...