Hypatia articles from March 1996

Hypatia archives from March 1996

Analyzing ethical conflict in the transracial adoption debate: three conflicts involving community.
March 22, 1996... This essay contributes a new approach to the current policy debates over racial matching in transracial adoption by analyzing ethical conflicts within the debates. By focusing on those conflicts involving community, this approach illuminates the...

A case for permitting altruistic surrogacy.
March 22, 1996... Canada's Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies(1) (1993) comes down hard on all forms of pre-conception or surrogacy arrangements(2) - commercial practices involving the cooperation or management of third parties for profit,...

Other mothers: toward an ethic of postmaternal practice.
March 22, 1996... Carol adds, "Peter would tack a little note at the end of the letter. He sort of wanted to be a part of it, wanted to be involved, but the real emotional involvement was between Dee and me." (Frank and Vogel 1988) But pregnancy is above all a...

Beyond humanism and postmodernism: theorizing a feminist practice.
March 22, 1996... In this essay, I discuss the relationship between feminist theory and practice. I consider the implications of a model of feminist practice that creates a necessary disjunction or contradiction between it and feminist theory. This contradiction...

Are lesbians women?
March 22, 1996... "Lesbians are not women" was the sentence with which Monique Wittig ended "The Straight Mind" at the modern Language Association's annual conference in 1978. A moment of stunned silence followed (Turcotte 1992, viii). Eighteen years later, this...

Questions to Luce Irigaray.
March 22, 1996... A number of Luce Irigaray's most important publications since 1980 have taken the form of poetic "dialogues" with key philosophers in the Western philosophical tradition. Three of these constitute an unfinished tetralogy of texts devoted to the...

L'ecriture limite: Kristeva's postmodern feminist ethics. (Julia Kristeva)
March 22, 1996... The theoretical work that interests me involves the analysis of the work of language, not as something possessing an arbitrary but systematizable nature (the aim of positivist semiology) but rather as a verbal practice whose economy is complex,...

Ecofeminist literary criticism: reading the Orange.
March 22, 1996... There is a time for listening to the vibrations that things produce in detaching themselves [imperceptibly from] the nothing-being to which our blindness relegates them, there is a time for letting things struggling with indifference give...

Lesbian Choices.
March 22, 1996... Janice G. Raymond Many of us have waited a long time for Claudia Card to write this book, anticipating that it would be a thoughtful and probing analysis of a range of lesbian issues. Lesbian Choices is such a book. It is a well crafted and...

Analyzing ethical conflict in the transracial adoption debate: three conflicts involving community.
March 22, 1996... This essay explores ethical conflicts underlying the discourse of the policy debate about transracial adoption, focusing on the adoption of Black children by whites. Three underlying conflicts are analyzed, namely, the values of equality versus...

Questions to Luce Irigaray.
March 22, 1996... This article traces the "dialogue" between the work of the philosophers Luce Irigaray and Emmanuel Levinas. It attempts to construct a more nuanced discussion than has been given to date of Irigaray's critique of Levinas, particularly as...

L'ecriture limite: Kristeva's postmodern feminist ethics.
March 22, 1996... In this essay, I trace the development of Julia Kristeva's theory and practice of "the subject in process/on trial" from her semiotic works of the 1960s to her psychoanalytic writings of the 1970s and 1980s. I read Kristeva's exploration of...

Ecofeminist literary criticism: reading the Orange.
March 22, 1996... Ecofeminism, a new vein in feminist theory, critiques the ontology of domination, whereby living beings are reduced to the status of objects, which diminishes their moral significance, enabling their exploitation, abuse, and destruction. This...

Lesbian Choices.
March 22, 1996... Lesbian Choices. By Claudia Card. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995. Many of us have waited a long time for Claudia Card to write this book, anticipating that it would be a thoughtful and probing analysis of a range of lesbian...

A case for permitting altruistic surrogacy.
March 22, 1996... Canada's Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies rejects all forms of surrogacy arrangement under the rubric of objecting to commercial surrogacy. Noncommercial surrogacy arrangements, however, can be defended against the commission's...

Other mothers: toward an ethic of postmaternal practice.
March 22, 1996... This essay attempts a deliberately perverse interpretation of the new reproductive practices (e.g., contract pregnancy, in vitro fertilization, etc.) in an effort to rethink maternal subjectivity and the bodies that might accompany it. ...

Beyond humanism and postmodernism: theorizing a feminist practice.
March 22, 1996... The model of feminism as humanist in practice and postmodern in theory is inadequate. Feminist practice and theory directly inform each other to displace both humanist and postmodern conceptions of the subject. An examination of feminism's use...

Are lesbians women?
March 22, 1996... I argue that Monique Wittig's view that lesbians are not women neglects the complexities involved in the composition of the category "woman." I develop an articulation of the concept "woman" in the contemporary United States, with thirteen...