Hypatia articles from March 1999

Hypatia archives from March 1999

"Fatal Practices": a feminist analysis of physician-assisted suicide and Euthanasia.
March 22, 1999... In this essay, I examine the arguments against physician-assisted suicide (PAS) Susan Wolf offers in her essay, "Gender, Feminism, and Death: Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia." I argue that Wolf's analysis of PAS, while timely and...

Moral Understandings: A Feminist Study in Ethics.
March 22, 1999... Moral Understandings: A Feminist Study in Ethics. By MARGARET URBAN WALKER. New York: Routledge, 1998. Margaret Urban Walker s Moral Understandings is indeed a feminist study in ethics. She sees feminist ethics as part of what Catharine...

Family Pictures: A Philosopher Explores the Familiar.
March 22, 1999... Family Pictures: A Philosopher Explores the Familiar. By LAURA DURAN KAPLAN. Chicago and La Salle: Open Court, 1998. Laura Duhan Kaplan's Family Pictures (1998) is a rich and bold attempt to integrate two modes of reflection--the...

Philosophy in a Feminist Voice: Critiques and Reconstructions.
March 22, 1999... Philosophy in a Feminist Voice: Critiques and Reconstructions. JANET A. KOURANY, Editor. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. I recall coming to the field of philosophy through such texts as Bertrand Russell's The History of Western...

Reconstructing Political Theory: Feminist Perspectives.
March 22, 1999... Reconstructing Political Theory: Feminist Perspectives. Edited by MARY LYNDON SHANLEY and UMA NARAYAN. University Park: Penn State Press, 1997. Edited volumes do not always follow through on the promise of conceptual coherence hinted at in...

Liberal rights theory and social inequality: a feminist critique.
March 22, 1999... Liberal rights theory can be used either to challenge or to support social hierarchies of power. Focusing on Ronald Dworkin's theory of rights and Catharine MacKinnon's feminist critique of liberalism, I identify a number of problems with the...

Hipparchia the cynic: feminist rhetoric and the ethics of embodiment.
March 22, 1999... Hipparchia's use of exile as an ethical and rhetorical space from which to critique convention is the point of departure for an examination of the ethics of using exile as a rhetorically effective position for feminist theorizing. To address...

Wittgenstein and Irigaray: gender and philosophy in a language (game) of difference.
March 22, 1999... Drawing Wittgenstein's and Irigaray's philosophies into conversation might help resolve certain misunderstandings that have so far hampered both the reception of Irigaray's work and the development of feminist praxis in general. A...

A minoritarian feminism? Things to do with Deleuze and Guattari.
March 22, 1999... This essay attempts to address the crucial relation of feminist philosophy to minorities inside and outside of feminism. To do so it turns to Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, focusing on their concept of "becoming minoritarian" and related...

"Fatal practices": a feminist analysis of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia.
March 22, 1999... Susan M. Wolf's "Gender, Feminism, and Death: Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia" (1996) makes an important contribution not only to the popular and academic debate on physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and euthanasia but also to the...

Liberal rights theory and social inequality: a feminist critique.
March 22, 1999... In recent years, a number of feminist scholars and activists have examined the function of rights in liberal political theory and have raised questions about the usefulness of liberal rights for women,(1) Some argue that although liberal rights...

Hipparchia the Cynic: feminist rhetoric and the ethics of embodiment.
March 22, 1999... I admire you for your eagerness in that, although you are a woman, you yearned for philosophy and have become one of our school, which has struck even men with awe for its austerity. A letter to Hipparchia from Diogenes of Sinope, The Cynic...

Wittgenstein and Irigaray: gender and philosophy in a language (game) of difference.(Ludwig Wittgenstein; Luce Irigaray)
March 22, 1999... At first sight it may seem retrogressive to read Luce Irigaray's project through the work of a philosopher like Ludwig Wittgenstein, who never addressed any of the substantive issues of fundamental import to feminism. However, despite the...

A minoritarian feminism? Things to do with Deleuze and Guattari.(Gilles Deleuze; Felix Guattari)
March 22, 1999... In this essay I hope to begin to explore the positive implications of a "minoritarian" feminism in the Deleuzo-Guattarian sense. At a time of increasing interest in the work of Deleuze and Guattari, I will return to and look closely at two...

Moral Understandings: A Feminist Study in Ethics.(Review)
March 22, 1999... By MARGARET URBAN WALKER. New York: Routledge, 1998. Margaret Urban Walker's Moral Understandings is indeed a feminist study in ethics. She sees feminist ethics as part of what Catharine MacKinnon claims is feminist theory's major project,...

Family Pictures: A Philosopher Explores the Familiar.(Review)
March 22, 1999... By LAURA DUHAN KAPLAN. Chicago and La Salle: Open Court, 1998. Laura Duhan Kaplan's Family Pictures (1998) is a rich and bold attempt to integrate two modes of reflection - the theoretical and the autobiographical. Writing in a genre she...

Philosophy in a Feminist Voice: Critiques and Reconstructions.(Review)
March 22, 1999... JANET A. KOURANY, Editor. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. I recall coming to the field of philosophy through such texts as Bertrand Russell's The History of Western Philosophy, Will Durant's The Story of Philosophy: The Lives...

Reconstructing Political Theory: Feminist Perspectives.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Edited by MARY LYNDON SHANLEY and UMA NARAYAN. University Park: Penn State Press, 1997. Edited volumes do not always follow through on the promise of conceptual coherence hinted at in the title or introduction; Reconstructing Political...