Hypatia articles from March 2003

Hypatia archives from March 2003

Introduction: indigenous women in the Americas.(issue contents)(Editorial)
March 22, 2003... I anticipate that this volume will nourish discussions in Native American, Indigenous, and Women's Studies, as well as in interdisciplinary courses. In respecting all of our relations, we present this journal in the spirit of healing the earth....

Disruption, Spring 1997.(Poem)
March 22, 2003... One of the editors knows the story behind this poem, and she has asked me to tell it briefly. I was leaving a meeting in Albuquerque and somebody had left a newspaper on the airplane. A story caught my eye from which I took the first lines. ...

Gender, Race, and the regulation of native identity in Canada and the United States: an overview.
March 22, 2003... FRAMING NATIVE IDENTITY To be federally recognized as an Indian either in Canada or the United States, an individual must be able to comply with very distinct standards of government regulation. The effect of these regulatory regimes might...

Rethinking identity and feminism: contributions of Mapuche women and Machi from Southern Chile.
March 22, 2003... Machi are predominantly women who enter into altered states of consciousness to contact spirits in order to heal, and mediate between the Mapuche people in Southern Chile and the spirit world, Machi are also mediators and negotiators between...

"Patriarchal colonialism" and indigenism: implications for native feminist spirituality and native womanism.
March 22, 2003... One perspective on "feminism" among Native American women is that the emphasis has been on individuality as conceived by early Western feminists who wanted more equality with men in the prevailing patriarchal sociopolitical structures in U. S....

Not an Indian tradition: the sexual colonization of native peoples.
March 22, 2003... [Rape] is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear --Susan Brownmiller, Against Our Will Rape as "nothing more or less" than a tool of patriarchal control...

The familiar face of genocide: internalized oppression among American Indians.
March 22, 2003... When he was a small boy he tried to summon the spirits with a flute That his father threw out the window while promptly beating his face in On the bus to the big school the white kids called him timber nigger and the only good...

Transubstantiation and lav'nder nights.(Poem)
March 22, 2003... Transubstantiation and lav'nder nights TRANSUBSTANTIATION i smell that bread from the hornos baked soft, warm in my mouth, bread, waarm bread, atop wet tongue i am eating the bread of many mothers, grandmothers, aunts,...

Phenomenology, pomo baskets, and the work of Mabel McKay.
March 22, 2003... When I went away to college Mabel gave me a "prayer basket," a miniature basket so small I need a magnifying glass to see its designs. She told me how to feed the basket with water once a month, and she told me how to pray, what songs to sing....

American Indian women's activism in the 1960s and 1970s.
March 22, 2003... INTRODUCTION American Indian political activism in the l960s took place during a time when many groups were actively organizing, groups with branches of their movement dedicated to civil rights pursuits and branches of more radical Power...

Poetry: Too Much for the Average Indian.(Poem)
March 22, 2003... Poetry: Too Much for the Average Indian. TOO MUCH FOR THE AVERAGE INDIAN Some days are just too much when I take an inventory of the day, week, year, century, millennium I realize there is much work to do. We are...

Introduction to Feminist Philosophy and the Problem of Evil.(issue contents)(Editorial)
March 22, 2003... Part II Whoever was tortured, stays tortured Jean Amery, At the Mind's Limit Part II of Feminist Philosophy and the Problem of Evil continues the discussion begun in the Special Issue on this topic. Its position at the end of the...

Cruelty, horror, and the will to redemption.(American response to suffering)
March 22, 2003... In time, every sad ending will become a happy story. The sad ending is only because the author stops telling the story. But it still goes on. It's just untold. --Francis Falls, Twin Falls Idaho A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made...

The justice of Truth and Reconciliation.(books on South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission)(Looking Back Reaching Forward)(Truth v. Justice)(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Within a year after the first free elections in South Africa in 1994, legislation was drafted to create a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). From 1996 and over the following two years, South Africa initiated an extraordinary process...

Evil and testimony: ethics "after" postmodernism.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... Two different books share the same concern about the relation between ethics and postmodernism. As its title suggests, the collection of essays, Evil after Postmodernism (2001), edited by Jennifer L. Geddes, approaches this question by focusing...

The Subject of Violence: Arendtean Exercises in Understanding. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... The Subject of Violence: Arendtean Exercises in Understanding. By BATAMI BAR ON. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. (Book Reviews) Now more than ever we need a philosophical understanding of violence. In the wake of the attacks of...

Rethinking Evil: Contemporary Perspectives. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Rethinking Evil: Contemporary Perspectives edited by Maria Pia Lara. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. In Rethinking Evil: Contemporary Perspectives (2001), Maria Pia Lara has edited an outstanding contribution to the renewal...

The Atrocity Paradigm: A Theory of Evil. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... The Atrocity Paradigm: A Theory of Evil by CLAUDIA CARD. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. How do evils differ from other forms of wrongdoing, and what should we do about them? In The Atrocity Paradigm, Claudia Card offers a rich,...

The Naked and the Undead: Evil and the Appeal of Horror. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... The Naked and the Undead: Evil and the Appeal of Horror. By CYNTHIA A. FREELAND. Boulder: Westview Press. 2000. The Naked and the Undead: Evil and the Appeal of Horror (2000) by Cynthia Free-land gathers together a number of compelling...

Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy by SUSAN NEIMAN. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. As Susan Neiman writes in her new book, Evil in Modern Thought; An Alternative History of Philosophy, one of the...

Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century by JONATHAN GLOVER. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. Jonathan's Glover's considerable reputation rests on the philosophical inquiry into the nature of human identity and...

The Many Faces of Evil: Historical Perspectives. (Book Review).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... The Many Faces of Evil: Historical Perspectives edited by AMELIE OKSENBERG RORTY. London and New York: Routledge, 2001 Amelie Rorty's eclectic collection of essays, The Many Faces of Evil: Historical Perspectives (2001), is premised on the...

Where We Stand: Class Matters. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Where We Stand: Class Matters. By BELL HOOKS. New York and London: Routledge 2000. Kim Q. Hall Ever since the publication of Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (1981), bell hooks has challenged readers to self-reflexively...

Women and the Politics of Class. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Women and the Politics of Class. By JOHANNA BRENNER. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000. Women and the Politics of Class (2000), by Johanna Brenner, is a collection of eleven essays written over a span of sixteen years, but it has a...

Books received.
March 22, 2003... Aboulafia, Mitchell, Myra Bookman, and Catherine Kemp, eds. 2002. Habermas and pragmatism. London: Routledge. Anzaldua, Gloria H., and Analouise Keating, eds. 2002. This bridge we call home: Radical visions for transformation. New York:...