Hypatia articles from March 2002

Hypatia archives from March 2002

Feminist philosophies of love and work.(Company overview)
March 22, 2002... Can work be done for pay, and still be loving? While many feminists believe that marketization inevitably leads to a degradation of social connections, we suggest that markets are themselves forms of social organization, and that even...

Gender constructions and the possibility of a generous economic actor.
March 22, 2002... In this paper I discuss various approaches to human motivation, considering how the image of economic actors as motivated by narrow self-interest and greed may be changed to one of self-interest combined with generosity and social...

On love and work: a vow of wholeness in writing.
March 22, 2002... Noting that academic writing typically falls in the category of work, this piece considers the relationship such writing might have with love. Animated by its observation that love's affinity with wholeness distinguishes it from work's tendency...

(Love is) the ability of not knowing: feminist experience of the impossible in ethical singularity.
March 22, 2002... In neocolonial contexts of globalization, the epistemological terrain of radical diversity poses significant ethical challenges to transnational feminisms. In view of historical associations between knowledge and discourses of love which were...

Having and Raising Children: Unconventional Families, Hard Choices, Social Good.
March 22, 2002... Having and Raising Children: Unconventional Families, Hard Choices, Social Good. Edited by UMA NARAYAN and JULIA J. BARTKOWIAK. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. It is difficult in a short review to do justice...

Relational Autonomy: Feminist Perspectives on Autonomy, Agency, and the Social Self.
March 22, 2002... Relational Autonomy: Feminist Perspectives on Autonomy, Agency, and the Social Self. Edited by CATRIONA MACKENZIE and NATALIE STOLJAR. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Relational Autonomy is a cohesive and beautifully executed...

The Feminist Standpoint Revisited and Other Essays.
March 22, 2002... The Feminist Standpoint Revisited and Other Essays. By NANCY C. M. HARTSOCK. Boulder: Westview, 1998. Approaching The Feminist Standpoint Revisited, I was both hopeful that Nancy Hartsock would continue to provide a strong Marxist-feminist...

Sex and Social Justice.
March 22, 2002... Sex and Social Justice. By MARTHA C. NUSSBAUM. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Martha C. Nussbaum's book Sex and Social Justice is in many ways a breath of fresh air--not so much because she introduces amazing new ideas that sweep...

Rousseau's Republican Romance.
March 22, 2002... Rousseau's Republican Romance. By ELIZABETH ROSE WINGROVE. Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press, 2000. Elizabeth Rose Wingrove's Rousseau's Republican Romance is an extended study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's peculiar and subtle notion...

Making Women Pay: The Hidden Costs of Fetal Rights.
March 22, 2002... Making Women Pay: The Hidden Costs of Fetal Rights. By RACHEL ROTH. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2000. The treatment of women considered by the courts and in public policy as carriers of fetuses is the subject of this...

Care and the extension of markets.
March 22, 2002... Many activities formerly not in the market are being "marketized," and women's labor is increasingly in the market. I consider the grounds on which to decide what should and what should not be "in" the market. I distinguish work that is paid...

The "nanny" question in feminism.
March 22, 2002... Are social movements responsible for their unfinished agendas? Feminist successes in opening the professions to women paved the way for the emergence of the upper middle-class two-career household. These households sometimes hire domestic...

Is it wrong to pay for housework?
March 22, 2002... This paper assesses arguments that paying for housework compromises the moral integrity of either the buyer or seller or both. I find that none provides adequate justification for avoiding paying for housework. Instead, I argue that the...

"It shouldn't have to be a trade": recognition and redistribution in care work advocacy.(Interview)
March 22, 2002... Care work straddles the divide between activities performed out of love and those performed for pay. The tensions created for workers by this divide raise questions concerning connections between recognition and redistribution. Through an...

The rights and wrongs of prostitution.
March 22, 2002... This essay critically explores contemporary Euro-American feminist debate on prostitution. It argues that to develop analyses relevant to the experience of more than just a small minority of "First World" women, those who are concerned with...

Sexual harassment and sadomasochism.
March 22, 2002... Although many women experience harmful behaviors that fit the legal definition of sexual harassment, very few ever label their experiences as such. I explore how psychological ambivalence expressed as sadomasochism may account for some of this...

Feminist philosophies of love and work.(Editorial)
March 22, 2002... INTRODUCTION What fresh ways of thinking about love and work do we need? We take as uncontroversial among feminists that we need to move away from the dualistic view that women, love, altruism, and the family are, as a group, radically...

Care and the extension of markets.(impact on women in the paid workforce)
March 22, 2002... ********** With more women than ever working for pay and aspiring to live their lives as they choose, "the market" is often seen as the model according to which not only economic life, but all sorts of human activity should be conducted....

The "Nanny" question in feminism.(women's oppression of women)
March 22, 2002... ********** Danielle Slap [age 3] was looking out the window into the backyard when she spotted a group of four deer of varying sizes. "Look," she said. "There is a family: there's a daddy, mommy, baby and the baby sitter." --Enid...

Is it wrong to pay for housework?
March 22, 2002... ********** Is it wrong to pay others to do our housework for us, work we would otherwise have to do ourselves? Susan Ostrander thinks so: this "privileged women's use of other women is personally exploitative, divisive among women, and...

"It shouldn't have to be a trade": Recognition and redistribution in care work advocacy.(child care workers seek professional status)
March 22, 2002... INTRODUCTION In a recent interview, a childcare organizer summed up the frustration that many caregivers feel in their struggles for both economic reward as workers and social value as carers when she said, "It shouldn't have to be a...

The rights and wrongs of prostitution.(assessing feminist debate on the subject)
March 22, 2002... ********** Feminists are deeply divided on the issue of prostitution, and debate between what might loosely be termed the "sex work" and the "abolitionist" lobbies is often both heated and bitter. This can be disconcerting for those like...

Sexual harassment and sadomasochism.(implications for women in university and corporate workplaces)
March 22, 2002... ********** Sexual harassment is a vexing problem for social science researchers. Surveys show that a huge proportion of women encounter unwanted and distressing sexual behaviors at work, with current estimates ranging between 42 and 90...

Gender constructions and the possibility of a generous economic actor.(moving from an economics of greed to gift-giving)
March 22, 2002... ********** "And you receivers--and you are all receivers--assume no weight of gratitude, lest you lay a yoke upon yourself and upon him who gives. Rather rise together with the giver on his gifts as on wings." Kahlil Gibran, "The...

On love and work: A vow of wholeness in writing.
March 22, 2002... ********** Any work that cuts you in two, leaves part of you out, cannot be something you love. Love of all kinds, romantic, spiritual, and everything in between, yearns for and yields union. Work without love thrives on distance. Work...

(Love is) The ability of not knowing: Feminist experience of the impossible in ethical singularity.(legacy of nineteenth-century relations between humanism and imperialism)
March 22, 2002... ********** It is a truism to say that the law is constituted by its own transgression; that trivial intimacy is the relationship between nineteenth-century feminism and the axiomatics of imperialism. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, A...

Having and Raising Children: Unconventional Families, Hard Choices, Social Good. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 2002... Having and Raising Children: Unconventional Families, Hard Choices, Social Good. Edited by UMA NARAYAN and JULIA J. BARTKOWIAK. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. It is difficult in a short review to do justice...

Relational Autonomy: Feminist Perspectives on Autonomy, Agency, and the Social Self.
March 22, 2002... Relational Autonomy: Feminist Perspectives on Autonomy, Agency, and the Social Self. Edited by CATRIONA MACKENZIE and NATALIE STOLJAR. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Relational Autonomy is a cohesive and beautifully executed...

The Feminist Standpoint Revisited and Other Essays. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 2002... The Feminist Standpoint Revisited and Other Essays. By NANCY C. M. HARTSOCK. Boulder: Westview, 1998. Approaching The Feminist Standpoint Revisited, I was both hopeful that Nancy Hartsock would continue to provide a strong Marxist-feminist...

Sex and Social Justice. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 2002... Sex and Social Justice. By MARTHA C. NUSSBAUM. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Martha C. Nussbaum's book Sex and Social Justice is in many ways a breath of fresh air--not so much because she introduces amazing new ideas that sweep...

Rousseau's Republican Romance. (Book Reviews).
March 22, 2002... Rousseau's Republican Romance. By ELIZABETH ROSE WINGROVE. Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press, 2000. Elizabeth Rose Wingrove's Rousseau's Republican Romance is an extended study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's peculiar and subtle notion...

Making Women Pay: The Hidden Costs of Fetal Rights.
March 22, 2002... Making Women Pay: The Hidden Costs of Fetal Rights. By RACHEL ROTH. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2000. The treatment of women considered by the courts and in public policy as carriers of fetuses is the subject of this...