Hypatia articles from March 1994

Hypatia archives from March 1994

Feminism and peace: seeing connections. (Special Issue: Feminism and Peace)
March 22, 1994... INTRODUCTION What do feminism and peace have to do with one another? What is peace, if it isn't just the absence of war? Do we get anywhere in a search for connections between feminism and peace if we ask, "Where do women fit in to...

The one who burns herself for peace. (Special Issue: Feminism and Peace)
March 22, 1994... Lit by a birth, I defend dark beginnings Waste that is never waste, most human giving Declared and clear as the mortal body of grace (Muriel Rukeyser, The Body of Waking) Alice Hertz--do any of us remember her? How many of us ever knew her...

Meditations on national identity. (Special Issue: Feminism and Peace)
March 22, 1994... On September 13, 1993, Shimon Peres, Israel's Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Liberation Organization's negotiator, signed an agreement that committed Israel and the PLO to work toward peaceful coexistence. This...

The psychology of tyranny: Wollstonecraft and Woolf on the gendered dimension of war. (Mary Wollstonecraft; Virginia Woolf) (Special Issue: Feminism and Peace)
March 22, 1994... In this essay, by fixing initially on the critiques of war provided by Mary Wollstonecraft and Virginia Woolf, I examine how gender constructs promote and participate in the psychological conditions necessary for war. Wollstone-craft and Woolf...

Unthinkable fathering: connecting incest and nuclearism. (Special Issue: Feminism and Peace)
March 22, 1994... Like the arms race during the Cold War, the incestuous father is also out of control. He fails to honor his most basic responsibility as a parent--to protect the child.... His fathering is unthinkable. (Amy Estelle, "Incest and the Bomb:...

Woman as caretaker: an archetype that supports patriarchal militarism. (Special Issue: Feminism and Peace)
March 22, 1994... In this essay, I argue against a species of feminist peace theory which unfolds as follows: women's psychological development prepares them to be connected caretakers. Men's psychological development prepares them to be individuated...

Men in groups: collective responsibility for rape. (Special Issue: Feminism and Peace)
March 22, 1994... As teenagers, we ran in a crowd that incessantly talked about sex. Since most of us were quite afraid of discovering our own sexual inadequacies, we were quite afraid of women's sexuality. To mask our fear, of which we were quite ashamed, we...

An alternative to pacifism? Feminism and just-war theory. (Special Issue: Feminism and Peace)
March 22, 1994... INTRODUCTION Women have traditionally been excluded from involvement in war. War has been considered almost exclusively a male enterprise: fought by men, with and against other men, for male-defined purposes and ends. Culturally,...

Feminist justice and the pursuit of peace. (Special Issue: Feminism and Peace)
March 22, 1994... The pursuit of peace is not usually associated with feminist justice. In the international arena, the usual focus for the pursuit of peace is the use of force, with realists, just war theorists, and pacifists disagreeing over if, when, and to...

Mothering, diversity, and peace politics. (Special Issue: Feminism and Peace)
March 22, 1994... Sara Ruddick has devoted nearly a decade to her philosophical analysis of mothering as a social practice and how it might plausibly serve as a foundation for a feminist peace politics. The culmination of this project is her book, Maternal...