Hypatia articles from March 1995

Hypatia archives from March 1995

Identity politics and dialectical reason: beyond an epistemology of provenance.
March 22, 1995... Feminists have given Jean-Paul Sartre a hard time. Although second-wave feminism has deemed the works of male thinkers as diverse as Marx, Freud, and Foucault worthy of serious if critical engagement, Sartre has for the most part been vilified...

Resistance and insubordination.
March 22, 1995... If the first wave of contemporary American feminism was a call for social and political equality for women, the second wave focused on women's lived experience, repudiating the abstract individualism that underlies much of liberal political...

Politics, identity, and social change: contested grounds in psychoanalytic feminism.
March 22, 1995... One of the more challenging questions raised by recent feminist theorizing is, what ought to constitute a distinctively feminist approach to problems of theory or practice?(1) A highly contentious question, it has been pursued both explicitly and...

Multicultural education and feminist ethics.(Special Issue: Feminist Ethics and Social Policy, part 2)
March 22, 1995... In 1993, the College of Arts and Sciences at my university, Washington University in St. Louis ("Wash. U."), doubled the number of multicultural courses required of undergraduates in Arts and Sciences. Students were formerly required to take at...

The severed head and existential dread: the classroom as epistemic community and student survivors of incest.(Special Issue: Feminist Ethics and Social Policy, part 2)
March 22, 1995... My 1957 college yearbook contains a photo of me in a graduate's black cap. From the way the picture is cropped, it looks as if I'm also wearing a black gown. That is an illusion because only my head went to college. My severed head. (Sylvia...

"Je-Luce Irigaray": a meeting with Luce Irigaray.(Interview)
March 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION Trained in linguistics, literature, and psychoanalysis, Luce Irigaray nonetheless insists that her works must be read, above all, as philosophical texts - that is, as interventions into the specific canon of thought "by means of...

Shifting paradigms: theorizing care and justice in political theory.
March 22, 1995... It's rare that an idea provokes debate simultaneously in several different academic disciplines. In the past decade, the suggestion that an ethic of care is central to morality has generated controversy in sociology, ethics, moral and political...

Hearing the difference: theorizing connection. (feminism)
March 22, 1995... When I began the work that led to In a Different Voice (1982), the framework was invisible. To study psychology at that time was like seeing a picture without seeing the frame, and the picture of the human world had become so large and...

The meshing of care and justice.
March 22, 1995... Feminist understandings of justice and care have by now made clear, in my view, that these are different values, reflecting different ways of interpreting moral problems and of expressing moral concern. And feminist discussion has also made clear...

Colonialism and its others: considerations on rights and care discourses.
March 22, 1995... I wish to think about certain aspects of the roles played by rights and care discourses in colonial times. I shall start with the following question: How did the vast majority of people in the colonizing countries motivate themselves to...

Care as a basis for radical political judgments.
March 22, 1995... The ethic of care has much to recommend it as a systematic framework for moral and political thought. I assert, in fact, that care provides the basis for the most important form of contemporary radical political thinking. My remarks come under...

A note on justice, care, and immigration policy.
March 22, 1995... If the liberal individualist version of justice is concerned with respect for rights and the care perspective sees individuals as involved, from the start, in a network of relationships out of which moral ties develop, then we might expect that...

Rape, group responsibility and trust.
March 22, 1995... In this short comment I shall attempt to link Larry May and Robert Strikwerda's analysis in "Men in Groups: Collective Responsibility for Rape" (May and Strikwerda 1994) to some strategies for helping women avoid rape. I am writing not only as a...

Reply to Victoria Davion's comments on May and Strikwerda. (response to Victoria Davion in this issue, p.153)
March 22, 1995... It was difficult for us to discuss our own complicity in rape. We assume it was even more difficult for Victoria Davion to discuss being a potential victim of rapes; we are very appreciative of her response to our paper. Her remarks enrich our...

Simulation and the reproduction of injustice: a reply. (response to Melinda Vadas in this issue, p. 159)
March 22, 1995... POINTS OF REPLY 1. I think that Melinda Vadas's response is overreliant on my own rather limited use of the roller coaster analogy (Hopkins 1994). Although, given her later criticisms (and the insistence on morally connecting simulations to...

Feminism and Philosophy: Perspectives on Difference and Equality.
March 22, 1995... Moira Gatens says that her book aims to correct a "primary weakness of much feminist theory" which is "that it engages with philosophy or theory only at the socio-political level" (2). By this she means that "most" feminist theory assumes a...

Speaking from the Heart.
March 22, 1995... Rita Manning's Speaking from the Heart is one of those books that acquaints the reader not only with original philosophical insights but with the author herself. It is a professional and personal exploration of ethics that, as the title implies,...

Cultural Identity and Social Liberation in Latin American Thought.
March 22, 1995... Rumor has it that at an international philosophy conference held in Mexico in the mid-1980s, as a distinguished panel of Anglo-American philosophers (including Richard Rorty) were expounding on the gains made in philosophy over the last quarter...