Hypatia articles from March 1998

Hypatia archives from March 1998

Introduction. border crossings: multicultural and postcolonial feminist challenges to philosophy (Part I).
March 22, 1998... A considerable amount of feminist thinking today works across borders in ways that unsettle familiar philosophical and political frameworks. It cuts across the borders of traditional disciplinary configurations, borrowing, incorporating, and...

"It's not philosophy".
March 22, 1998... Women, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism. By TRINH T. MINH-HA. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. By PATRICIA HILL COLLINS. New...

Chandra Mohanty and the revaluing of "experience".
March 22, 1998... Joan Scott's poststructuralist critique of experience demonstrates the dangers of empiricist narratives of experience but leaves feminists without a meaningful way to engage nonempiricist, experience-oriented texts, texts that constitute many...

Sitios y lenguas: Chicanas theorize feminisms.
March 22, 1998... Chicana feminist writers have written eloquently about the condition of women in their communities. Many of them have aligned themselves with and participated in various political movements. This practice has infused their theorizing with...

Fruits of Sorrow: Framing Our Attention to Suffering.
March 22, 1998... Fruits of Sorrow: Framing Our Attention to Suffering. By ELIZABETH V. SPELMAN. Boston: Beacon Press, 1997. Elizabeth Spelman has given us a closely argued, elegantly written analysis of the ways we talk about suffering and sufferers. She is...

Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan[c]_Meets_OncoMouse[TM].
March 22, 1998... Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan[c]_Meets_OncoMouse[TM]. By Donna J. Haraway. New York: Routledge, 1997. It is impossible to translate the joy, excitement, and anticipation with which we came to Donna Haraway's newest book. With...

I Love to You: Sketch for a Felicity within History.
March 22, 1998... I Love to You: Sketch for a Felicity within History. By LUCE IRIGARAY. Translated by Alison Martin. New York: Routledge, 1996. In her introduction to Engaging with Irigaray, Naomi Schor reminds readers of the well-known story of Irigaray...

Krieg/War. Eine Philosophische Auseinandersetzung aus feministischer Sicht (Krieg/War: A Philosophical Examination from a Feminist Perspective).
March 22, 1998... Krieg/War. Eine Philosophische Auseinandersetzung aus feministischer Sicht (Krieg/War: A Philosophical Examination from a Feminist Perspective). Edited by the Wiener Philosophinnen Club. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1997. Krieg/War is the...

Feminism, women's human rights, and cultural differences.
March 22, 1998... The recent global movement for women's human rights has achieved considerable re-thinking of human rights as previously understood. Since many of women's rights violations occur in the private sphere of family life, and are justified by appeals...

Cultural alterity: cross-cultural communication and feminist theory in North-South contexts.
March 22, 1998... How to communicate with "the other" who is culturally different from oneself is one of the greatest challenges facing North-South relations. This paper builds on existential-phenomenological and poststructuralist concepts of alterity and...

Globalizing feminist ethics.
March 22, 1998... The feminist conception of discourse offered below differs from classical discourse ethics. Arguing that inequalities of power are even more conspicuous in global than in local contexts, I note that a global discourse community seems to be...

How to think globally: stretching the limits of imagination.
March 22, 1998... Here I discuss some epistemological questions posed by projects of attempting to think globally, in light of the impossibility of affirming universal sameness. I illustrate one strategy for embarking on such a project, ecologically, in a...

Essence of culture and a sense of history: a feminist critique of cultural essentialism.
March 22, 1998... Drawing parallels between gender essentialism and cultural essentialism, I point to some common features of essentialist pictures of culture. I argue that cultural essentialism is detrimental to feminist agendas and suggest strategies for its...

Globalizing feminist ethics.(Border Crossings: Multicultural and Postcolonial Feminist Challenges to Philosophy, part 1)
March 22, 1998... Global trade and interaction are not new but their current intensification is unprecedented.(1) Local communities have never been completely closed but now their boundaries have become so porous that people speak of community disintegration....

Feminism, women's human rights, and cultural differences.(Border Crossings: Multicultural and Postcolonial Feminist Challenges to Philosophy, part 1Border Crossings: Multicultural and Postcolonial Feminist Challenges to Philosophy, part 1)
March 22, 1998... The recognition of women's rights as human rights has been taking place on the global stage - from the grassroots to the international conference levels - in the last two decades. This has required considerable rethinking of human rights. Many...

Cultural alterity: cross-cultural communication and feminist theory in North-South contexts.(Border Crossings: Multicultural and Postcolonial Feminist Challenges to Philosophy, part 1)
March 22, 1998... This essay will address the issue of understanding cultural differences in the context of cross-cultural communication and dialogue, particularly those cases in which such communication or attempted communication takes place between members of a...

How to think globally: stretching the limits of imagination.(Border Crossings: Multicultural and Postcolonial Feminist Challenges to Philosophy, part 1)
March 22, 1998... The slogan "think globally, act locally" is inspirational for Western feminists, and challenging in the epistemological questions it poses. It is born of optimism and despair. The extent of optimism's warrant is apparent in the transformative...

Essence of culture and a sense of history: a feminist critique of cultural essentialism.(Border Crossings: Multicultural and Postcolonial Feminist Challenges to Philosophy, part 1)
March 22, 1998... In recent decades, feminists have stressed the need to think about issues of gender in conjunction with, and not in isolation from, issues of class, race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation, and have forcefully illustrated that differences among...

"It's not philosophy." (review of books on feminist theory and philosophy)(comments on articles by Maria C. Lugones, Women's Studies International Forum, vol. 6, no. 6, p. 573, 1983; Journal of Philosophy, vol. 87, no. 10, p. 500, 1990; Hypatia, vol. 2, no. 2, p. 3, 1987)(Border Crossings: Multicultural and Postcolonial Feminist Challenges to Philosophy, part 1)
March 22, 1998... "Have we got a theory for you! Feminist Theory, Cultural Imperialism and the Demand for 'The Woman's Voice.'" By MARCIA C. LUGONES and ELIZABETH V. SPELMAN. Women's Studies International Forum 6(6)(1983): 573-81. "Structure/Antistructure and...

Women, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism.
March 22, 1998... By TRINH T. MINH-HA. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989. "Have we got a theory for you! Feminist Theory, Cultural Imperialism and the Demand for 'The Woman's Voice.'" By MARCIA C. LUGONES and ELIZABETH V. SPELMAN. Women's Studies...

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment.
March 22, 1998... By PATRICIA HILL COLLINS. New York: Routledge, 1991. "Have we got a theory for you! Feminist Theory, Cultural Imperialism and the Demand for 'The Woman's Voice.'" By MARCIA C. LUGONES and ELIZABETH V. SPELMAN. Women's Studies International...

Signs, Songs, and Memory in the Andes.
March 22, 1998... By REGINA HARRISON. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989. "Have we got a theory for you! Feminist Theory, Cultural Imperialism and the Demand for 'The Woman's Voice.'" By MARCIA C. LUGONES and ELIZABETH V. SPELMAN. Women's Studies...

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza.
March 22, 1998... By GLORIA ANZALDUA. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1987. "Have we got a theory for you! Feminist Theory, Cultural Imperialism and the Demand for 'The Woman's Voice.'" By MARCIA C. LUGONES and ELIZABETH V. SPELMAN. Women's Studies...

Chandra Mohanty and the revaluing of "experience."(Border Crossings: Multicultural and Postcolonial Feminist Challenges to Philosophy, part 1)
March 22, 1998... Although early feminists raised feminist consciousness and countered male-centered worldviews with narratives of "women's experience," there is today a broad consensus among feminists that stories of "experience" are problematic. As Donna...

'Sitios y lenguas': chicanas theorize feminisms.(Border Crossings: Multicultural and Postcolonial Feminist Challenges to Philosophy, part 1)
March 22, 1998... INTRODUCTION Contemporary Chicana feminisms are truly children of the U.S. progressive political movements of the 1960s. Chicanas' activism on behalf of women's issues has a long, mostly undocumented history.(1) Contemporary writing by Chicana...

Fruits of Sorrow: Framing Our Attention to Suffering.
March 22, 1998... By ELIZABETH V. SPELMAN. Boston: Beacon Press, 1997. Nel Noddings Elizabeth Spelman has given us a closely argued, elegantly written analysis of the ways we talk about suffering and sufferers. She is careful to tell readers at the outset...

Modest_Witness@Second_Millenium.FemaleMan..._Meets_OncoMouse(super TM).
March 22, 1998... By Donna J. Haraway. New York: Routledge, 1997. Ingrid Bartsch, Carolyn DiPalma, and Laura Sells It is impossible to translate the joy, excitement, and anticipation with which we came to Donna Haraway's newest book. With the enthusiasm of...

I Love To You: Sketch for a Felicity within History.
March 22, 1998... By LUCE IRIGARAY. Translated by Alison Martin. New York: Routledge, 1996. Penelope Deutscher In her introduction to Engaging with Irigaray, Naomi Schor reminds readers of the well-known story of Irigaray and her critics, beginning with the...

Krieg/War: Eine Philosophische Auseinandersetzung aus feministischer Sicht.
March 22, 1998... (Krieg/War: A Philosophical Examination from a Feminist Perspective). Edited by the Wiener Philosophinnen Club. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1997. Gertrude Postl Krieg/War is the result of the VII symposium of the International Association...