Hypatia articles from June 2006

Hypatia archives from June 2006

Introduction: feminist epistemologies of ignorance.
June 22, 2006... Feminist epistemologies of ignorance were born out of the realization that we cannot fully understand the complex practices of knowledge production and the variety of features that account for why something is known, without also understanding...

The speculum of ignorance: the women's health movement and epistemologies of ignorance.
June 22, 2006... The Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Jane, Carol Downer, Lorraine Rothman, and Belita Cowan, conceived history. They imagined, as did countless others, new ways of thinking about their bodies and taking control of their...

Two influential theories of ignorance and philosophy's interests in ignoring them.
June 22, 2006... More than a century ago, Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud each produced accounts of the nature and causes of certain kinds of systematic interested ignorance. These writings have been immensely influential in many disciplines and, in the case of...

Toward a revaluation of ignorance.
June 22, 2006... Many feminist theorists have criticized paternalistic, appropriative, colonialist, exclusionary, and other oppressive ways of knowing (see, for example, Code 1987, 1991, 1995; Smith 1999), grounding their criticisms in ethical and political...

Being lovingly, knowingly ignorant: white feminism and women of color.
June 22, 2006... What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heelprint upon another woman's face? What woman's terms of oppression have become precious and necessary to her as a ticket into the fold of the righteous,...

On complex communication.
June 22, 2006... Much organizing against oppression in the United States is still grounded in narrow understandings of the situation of the oppressed. The narrow understanding focuses on oppression as it affects the particular affiliative group of one's...

Abjection and the constitutive nature of difference: class mourning in Margaret's Museum and legitimating myths of innocence in Casablanca.
June 22, 2006... A good deal of feminist theory is in the process of attempting to formulate more adequately than has been done in the past the relationships among race, class, gender, and sexuality. Current terms of analysis are dominated by a model of...

Trauma in paradise: willful and strategic ignorance in Cereus Blooms at Night.
June 22, 2006... To face the suffering of the Other, and to be prepared to heed the interpellations of the Other, requires that we liberate philosophy from its hubris by acknowledging its failures. --Linda Martin Alcoff and Eduardo Mendieta ...

When feminism is "high" and ignorance is "low": Harriet Taylor Mill on the progress of the species.
June 22, 2006... John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill considered the cultivated or enforced ignorance of women a primary impediment to equality between the sexes. Access to knowledge, education, and culture (by which they really meant access to particular...

Farming made her stupid.
June 22, 2006... I have a friend and colleague at my college, a hip, critically reflective young feminist theorist. Some time ago, I had a conversation with her as she was preparing to take a group of students to a major U.S. city for a month-long...

Feminist art epistemologies: understanding feminist art.
June 22, 2006... What knowledge informs an intelligent comprehension and appreciation of a feminist work of art such as Wilma de Kooning's Woman Ia? (Figure 1). Does ignorance about a prototype painted by Willem de Kooning, entitled Woman I, affect a viewer's...

The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom.(The Claims of Culture: Equality and Diversity in the Global Era)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom by NANCY HIRSCHMANN (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003); The Claims of Culture: Equality and Diversity in the Global Era by SEYLA BENHABIB (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton...

Toward a Phenomenology of Sexual Difference: Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Beauvoir.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Toward a Phenomenology of Sexual Difference: Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Beauvoir. By SARA HEINAMAA. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. Toward a Phenomenology of Sexual Difference by Sara Heinamaa makes an extremely important...

Pilgramages/Peregrinajes: Theorizing Coalition against Multiple Oppressions.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Pilgramages/Peregrinajes: Theorizing Coalition against Multiple Oppressions. By MARIA LUGONES. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. Maria Lugones's Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes is a brilliant and theoretically dense book that makes several...

Reading across Borders: Storytelling and Knowledges of Resistance.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Reading across Borders: Storytelling and Knowledges of Resistance. By SHARI STONE-MEDIATORE. NewYork: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. In Reading across Borders: Storytelling and Knowledges of Resistance, Shari Stone-Mediatore defends the critical...

Wittgenstein: A Feminist Interpretation.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Wittgenstein: A Feminist Interpretation. By ALESSANDRA TANESINI. London: Polity Press, 2004. Alessandra Tanesini's Wittgenstein: A Feminist Interpretation is a splendidly original book that invites feminists and Wittgensteinians to revisit...

Embodied Care: Jane Addams, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Feminist Ethics.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Embodied Care: Jane Addams, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Feminist Ethics. By MAURICE HAMINGTON. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. When conflicts between universalizing power and diversity dominate the sociopolitical scene, it is...

Moral Psychology: Feminist Ethics and Social Theory.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Moral Psychology: Feminist Ethics and Social Theory. Edited by PEGGY DESAUTELS and MARGARET URBAN WALKER. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. Peggy DesAutels's and Margaret Walker's Moral Psychology is one of the latest additions to...

The Other Within: Ethics, Politics, and the Body in Simone de Beauvoir.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... The Other Within: Ethics, Politics, and the Body in Simone de Beauvoir. By FREDRIKA SCARTH. Lanham, Md.: Roman & Littlefield, 2004. In the last few decades, critical analyses of Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (1952) developed by...

Skepticism and the lure of ambiguity.
June 22, 2006... Embarking on the project of musing about the often-uneasy relations between analytic and "Continental" philosophy, my thoughts took a direction unexpected even for me, as my title is meant to signal. They begin on an autobiographical note. In...

Books received.
June 22, 2006... Bamforth, Nicholas, ed. 2005. Sex rights: Oxford amnesty lectures. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chanter, Tina, and Ewa Plonowska Ziarek, eds. 2005. Revolt, affect, collectivity: The unstable boundaries of Kristeva's polis. Albany:...