Hypatia articles from March 2000

Hypatia archives from March 2000

Learning to think intercontinentally: finding Australian routes.
March 22, 2000... This introductory essay argues that it is a mistake to represent Australian feminist philosophy as a kind of discourse theory that is "downstream" of the French poststructuralists or North American postmodernists. Starting with the local--and...

Copula: the logic of the sexual relation.
March 22, 2000... This paper argues that the slogans "A Woman's Right to Choose" and "The Personal is the Political" typify different traditions within feminist thinking; one emphasizing rights and equality, the other the unconscious and the personal. The author...

What is (feminist) philosophy?
March 22, 2000... What makes us think, and what makes us think as feminists? In seeking to answer these questions, this paper draws on both Deleuze and Guattari's account of the creation of concepts, and feminist thought on feminist thinking, before suggesting...

Fractured community.
March 22, 2000... Unity, commonality, and agreement are generally understood to be the basis, or the aim, of community. This paper argues instead that disagreement and fracture are inherent to, and provide the expression of difference within, community. Drawing...

Transformations.
March 22, 2000... Blindspots and elisions, fissures and omissions: feminist thinkers have often had an eye for the gaps in the western philosophical tradition. They have focused on what has gone missing from philosophy, not as a way of refusing philosophical...

"Imperfect discretion": interventions into the history of philosophy by twentieth-century French women philosophers.
March 22, 2000... How might we locate originality as emerging from within the "discrete" work of commentary? Because many women have engaged with philosophy in forms (including commentary) that preclude their work from being seen as properly "original," this...

Connections.
March 22, 2000... Feminism is marked by a pragmatic concern with the position of women, with rights and equality, and with representation. The papers in this section of the volume investigate the philosophical thinking that informs that representation, and thus,...

Container technologies.
March 22, 2000... This paper goes beyond critiques of western philosophical notions of space as passive, feminine, and unintelligent by reconfiguring containment as an (inter-)active process. The author draws on work in the history of technology, on a cybernetic...

Shedding light for the matter.
March 22, 2000... This paper critiques enlightenment notions of representation and rehearses an alternative model of mapping that is grounded in performance. Working from her own practice as a landscape painter, Bolt argues that the particular experience of the...

No one's land: Australia and the philosophical imagination.
March 22, 2000... Drawing on the work of Michele Le Doeuff, this paper uses the idea of "philosophical imagination" to make visible the historical intersection between philosophical ideas, social practice, and institutional structures. It explores the role of...

The power of Spinoza: feminist conjunctions.(Interview)
March 22, 2000... As a constructive alternative to the exclusionary binaries of Cartesian philosophy, Genevieve Lloyd and Moira Gatens turn to Spinoza. Spinoza's understanding of the body as "in relation" takes the focus of philosophical thought from the...

Feminism as "password": re-thinking the "possible" with Spinoza and Deleuze.
March 22, 2000... This paper reads Deleuze through a Spinozist lens to conceive of the human being as a dynamic and complex whole in constant interchange with its environment. The author thus moves beyond philosophical dualisms, and challenges the assumption...

From radical representations to corporeal becomings: the feminist philosophy of Lloyd, Grosz, and Gatens.
March 22, 2000... Contrasting the work of Genevieve Lloyd, Elizabeth Grosz, and Moira Gatens with the poststructuralist philosophy of Judith Butler, this paper identifies a distinctive "Australian" feminism. It argues that while Butler remains trapped by the...

Provocations.
March 22, 2000... The papers in Section Two explore different models of relationality. They address the paradigm of the oppositional relation between self and other and challenge it in different ways. The first paper, by Robyn Ferrell, offers a relational model...

Learning to Think Intercontinentally: Finding Australian Routes.
March 22, 2000... This introductory essay argues that it is a mistake to represent Australian feminist philosophy as a kind of discourse theory that is "downstream" of the French poststructuralists or North American postmodernists. Starting with the local-and...

Connections.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2000... Feminism is marked by a pragmatic concern with the position of women, with rights and equality, and with representation. The papers in this section of the volume investigate the philosophical thinking that informs that representation, and thus,...

No One's Land: Australia and the Philosophical Imagination.
March 22, 2000... Drawing on the work of Mich[grave{e}]le Le Doeuff, this paper uses the idea of "philosophical imagination" to make visible the historical intersection between philosophical ideas, social practice, and institutional structures. It explores the...

The Power of Spinoza: Feminist Conjunctions.(Benedictus de Spinoza)(Interview)
March 22, 2000... GENEVIEVE LLOYD AND MOIRA GATENS As a constructive alternative to the exclusionary binaries of Cartesian philosophy, Genevieve Lloyd and Moira Gatens turn to Spinoza. Spinoza's understanding of the body as "in relation" takes the focus of...

Feminism as "Password": Re-thinking the "Possible" with Spinoza and Deleuze.(Benedict Spinoza, Gilles Deleuze)
March 22, 2000... This paper reads Deleuze through a Spinozist lens to conceive of the human being as a dynamic and complex whole in constant interchange with its environment. The author thus moves beyond philosophical dualisms, and challenges the assumption...

From Radical Representations to Corporeal Becomings: The Feminist Philosophy of Lloyd, Grosz, and Gatens.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2000... Contrasting the work of Genevieve Lloyd, Elizabeth Grosz, and Moira Gatens with the poststructuralist philosophy of Judith Butler, this paper identifies a distinctive 'Australian" feminism. It argues that while Butler remains trapped by the...

Provocations.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2000... The papers in Section Two explore different models of relationality. They address the paradigm of the oppositional relation between self and other and challenge it in different ways. The first paper, by Robyn Ferrell, offers a relational model...

Copula: The Logic of the Sexual Relation.
March 22, 2000... This paper argues that the slogans "A Woman's Right to Choose" and "The Personal is the Political" typify different traditions within feminist thinking; one emphasizing rights and equality, the other the unconscious and the personal. The author...

What Is (Feminist) Philosophy?(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2000... What makes us think, and what makes us think as feminists? In seeking to answer these questions, this paper draws on both Deleuze and Guattari's account of the creation of concepts, and feminist thought on feminist thinking, before suggesting...

Fractured Community.
March 22, 2000... Unity, commonality, and agreement are generally understood to be the basis, or the aim, of community. This paper argues instead that disagreement and fracture are inherent to, and provide the expression of difference within, community. Drawing...

Transformations.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2000... Blindspots and elisions, fissures and omissions: feminist thinkers have often had an eye for the gaps in the western philosophical tradition. They have focused on what has gone missing from philosophy, not as a way of refusing philosophical...

"Imperfect Discretion": Interventions into the History of Philosophy by Twentieth-Century French Women Philosophers.
March 22, 2000... How might we locate originality as emerging from within the "discrete" work of commentary? Because many women have engaged with philosophy in forms (including commentary) that preclude their work from being seen as properly "original," this...

Container Technologies.
March 22, 2000... This paper goes beyond critiques of western philosophical notions of space as passive, feminine, and unintelligent by reconfiguring containment as an (inter-) active process. The author draws on work in the history of technology, on a...

Shedding Light For The Matter.
March 22, 2000... This paper critiques enlightenment notions of representation and rehearses an alternative model of mapping that is grounded in performance. Working from her own practice as a landscape painter, Bolt argues that the particular experience of the...