Hypatia articles from June 2007

Hypatia archives from June 2007

Gandhi and the virtue of care.(Mahatma Gandhi)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2007... The film Gandhi expands our understanding of how the virtue of care can function in the public sphere by portraying Gandhi dealing with Indian independence from Britain, the subjugation of women and Untouchables, and strife between Hindus and...

Simone de Beauvoir and the ambiguous ethics of political violence.
June 22, 2007... In this essay, Hutchings contends that Simone de Beauvoir's argument in The Ethics of Ambiguity provides a valuable resource for feminists currently addressing the question of the legitimacy of political violence, whether of the state or...

Reflection, nature, and moral law: the extent of Catharine Cockburn's Lockeanism in her Defence of Mr. Locke's essay.(John Locke)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2007... This essay examines Catharine Cockburn's moral philosophy as it is developed in her Defence of Mr. Locke's Essay on Human Understanding. In this work, Cockburn argues that Locke's epistemological principles provide a foundation for the...

On their own ground: strategies of resistance for Sunni Muslim women.(contextual transparency)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2007... Drawing from work in feminist moral philosophy, Tobin argues that the most common methodology used in practical ethics is a questionable methodology for addressing practical problems across diverse cultural contexts because the kind of...

The potential of theory: Melanie Klein, Luce Irigaray, and the mother-daughter relationship.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2007... Through a close reading o f Klein and Irigaray's work on the mother-daughter relationship via the Electra myth, Jacobs diagnoses what she considers a fundamental problem in psychoanalytic and feminist psychoanalytic theory. She shows that...

Nietzsche on Gender: Beyond Man and Woman.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Nietzsche on Gender: Beyond Man and Woman. By FRANCES NESBITT OPPEL. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. Oppel's lively and informative work makes important contributions to conversations concerning the images of 'woman'...

Simone de Beauvoir: Philosophical Writings.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Simone de Beauvoir: Philosophical Writings. Edited by MARGARET A. SIMONS with MARYBETH TIMMERMANN and MARY BETH MADER. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. Sally J. Scholz Simone de Beauvoir once wrote, "A book is a collective...

Inclusive Feminism: A Third Wave Theory of Women's Commonality.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Inclusive Feminism: A Third Wave Theory of Women's Commonality. By NAOMI ZACK. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. Naomi Zack's new book offers a kind of Humpty-Dumpty version of the recent career of feminist theory. The story begins...

Reconceiving Pregnancy and Childcare: Ethics, Experience, and Reproductive Labor.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Reconceiving Pregnancy and Childcare: Ethics, Experience, and Reproductive Labor. By AMY MULLIN. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. In Reconceiving Pregnancy and Childcare: Ethics, Experience, and Reproductive Labor, Amy Mullin...

Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered: New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work, and Human Rights.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered: New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work, and Human Rights. Edited by KAMALA KEMPADOO with JYOTI SANGHERA and BANDANA PATTANAIK. This anthology was "initially inspired," Kamala Kempadoo writes, by...

Mass Hysteria: Medicine, Culture, and Mothers' Bodies.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Mass Hysteria: Medicine, Culture, and Mothers' Bodies. By REBECCA KUKLA. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. Mass Hysteria is a wonderful example of a feminist philosopher's ability to combine her philosophical expertise with...

The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution. By ELISABETH LLOYD. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. Methodical and lucid, Elisabeth Lloyd's The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution...

A return to reciprocity.(influence of feminism among Native American women)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2007... Feminist affiliation has long been suspect among Native American women whose memories survive the dishonor of colonialism. The idea of common struggles is simultaneously repugnant and alluring. Sadly, this has led to much confusion and...

Philosophizing in a dissonant key.(MUSINGS)(feminism's impact on men)(Speech)
June 22, 2007... Recently, I was asked to contribute to a discussion on the impact of feminism on men, held at the Pacific Division meetings of the American Philosophical Association (APA). These remarks represent the outcome of that invitation and discussion,...

Evil deceivers and make-believers: on transphobic violence and the politics of illusion.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2007... This essay examines the stereotype that transgender people are "deceivers" and the stereotype's role in promoting and excusing transphobic violence. The stereotype derives from a contrast between gender presentation (appearance) and sexed body...

Beauvoir, Hegel, War.(Simone de Beauvoir's study of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel during the German occupation)
June 22, 2007... The importance of Hegel to the philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir, both to her early philosophical texts and to The Second Sex, is usually discussed in terms of the master-slave dialectic and a Kojeve-influenced reading, which some see her as...

Relation, virtue, and relational virtue: three concepts of caring.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2007... This essay breaks new ground in defending the view that contemporary care-based ethics and early Confucian ethics share some important common ground. Luo also introduces the notion of relational virtue in an attempt to bridge a conceptual gap...