Hypatia articles from June 2005

Hypatia archives from June 2005

Stories from the South: a question of logic.(Feminist scholars, guy rights (Cuba, Africa))
June 22, 2005... Despite its sexist and homophobic traditions, Cuba is considered, by many who know Cuba, to be a leader in gay dignity and equality, one of the progressive societies in the region in this regard. Yet a Hollywood film, Before Night Falls...

On pornography: MacKinnon, speech acts, and "false" construction.
June 22, 2005... As is well known, Catharine MacKinnon makes some rather controversial and provocative claims about the nature and social force of pornography. In particular, she claims that pornography silences and subordinates women and that it incorrectly...

Rethinking care theory: the practice of caring and the obligation to care.
June 22, 2005... The goal of this article is to develop a definition of caring and theory of obligation for caring sufficient to ground a general moral and political philosophy. The first section proposes a new definition of caring that addresses the main...

Corpus meum: disintegrating bodies and the ideal of integrity.
June 22, 2005... Quel etrange moi! --Jean-Luc Nancy, Corpus In Volatile Bodies, Elizabeth Grosz outlines several general criteria that would ideally govern feminist theoretical approaches to the body. Most importantly, any notion of the body must be...

Love, that indispensable supplement: Irigaray and Kant on love and respect.
June 22, 2005... What role should love play in ethical life? Those philosophers who believe that love is relevant to ethics are divided over its nature and how fundamental an ethical concept it is. Respect is generally taken to be essential to the ethical life,...

Through thick and thin: validity and reflective judgment.
June 22, 2005... Moral and political concepts are extended and stretched, sometimes to the breaking point, every day. Think of analogies made in political rhetoric: "American capitalism is as totalitarian as was the Soviet system." "Saddam Hussein was as cruel...

Representative women: slavery, citizenship, and feminist theory in Du Bois's "damnation of women".
June 22, 2005... "For a concept of citizenship," writes Mary Dietz, "feminists should turn to relations and practices that are expressly contextual, institutional, and political, informed by and situated within particular cultures and histories, and oriented...

Women philosophers, sidelined challenges, and professional philosophy.(SYMPOSIUM)
June 22, 2005... The four papers included in this symposium were first presented together at a session sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women at the Eastern Division APA meetings in December 2003. In organizing the panel, I sought scholars who could...

Diotima's ghost: the uncertain place of feminist philosophy in professional philosophy.
June 22, 2005... When asked about the state of feminist philosophy in the profession of academic philosophy, I am not sure what question I'm trying to answer. Is it a question about the success of feminist philosophy as it has emerged into professional...

"Ideal theory" as ideology.(Feminist ethics )(Reprint)
June 22, 2005... Recent surveys of the development of feminist ethics over the last three decades have emphasized that the exclusive and unitary focus on "care" with which it is still sometimes identified has long been misleading. While paying tribute to the...

Early modern women philosophers and the history of philosophy.
June 22, 2005... It has now been more than a dozen years since the Eastern Division of the APA invited me to give an address on what was then a rather innovative topic: the published contributions of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women to philosophy. (1)...

Beyond gender schemas: improving the advancement of women in academia.
June 22, 2005... Why are so few women at the top of their profession, whatever the profession is? After all, the data show that progress has been made: men and women make roughly equal starting salaries at similar ranks. So is there a problem? Yes, not one...

Autonomy, Gender, Politics.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Autonomy, Gender, Politics. By MARILYN FRIEDMAN. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Marilyn Friedman's Autonomy, Gender, Politics is the second book to appear in Oxford's Studies in Feminist Philosophy series. The book focuses on three...

The Philosopher Queen: Feminist Essays on War, Love, and Knowledge.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Philosopher Queen: Feminist Essays on War, Love, and Knowledge. By CHRIS CUOMO. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003. The Philosopher Queen is a powerful illustration of what Cherrie Moraga calls a "theory in the...

Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity. By CHANDRA TALPADE MOHANTY. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2003. The publication of Chandra Talpade Mohanty's germinal essay, "Under Western Eyes: Feminist...

"Sympathy and Solidarity" and Other Essays.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... "Sympathy and Solidarity" and Other Essays. By SANDRA LEE BARTKY. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. Readers of Sandra Lee Bartky's first book, Femininity and Domination, will find in this new collection of essays many of the...

Aging, Death, and Human Longevity: A Philosophical Inquiry.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Aging, Death, and Human Longevity: A Philosophical Inquiry. By CHRISTINE OVERALL. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. Despite their particular relevance to women, the issues addressed in Aging, Death and Human...

Feminine stubble.(MUSINGS)(Sexual identity (visible differences))
June 22, 2005... In the Egyptian Room, a primarily white lesbian bar in Portland, Oregon, a good friend and I drink beers and wait to play pool. On the green before us are two women. One, a short woman, her head shaved and covered with a blue handkerchief,...

Books received.
June 22, 2005... Benhabib, Seyla, and Nancy Fraser. 2004. Same difference: How gender myths are hurting our relationships, our children, and our jobs. Cambridge: MIT Press. Black, David. 2004. Helen Macfarlane: A feminist, revolutionary journalist, and...