Hypatia articles from March 2004

Hypatia archives from March 2004

Introduction: women in the American philosophical tradition 1800-1930.
March 22, 2004... The problem of our age is womanhood... it will take the next century to work it out as in its inner meaning, and in references to the eternal principles which alone will lead us to its final and triumphant solution. --Ednah Dow Cheney,...

Heaven-appointed educators of mind: Catharine Beecher and the moral power of women.(Biography)
March 22, 2004... Brought up as a Calvinist, Catharine Esther Beecher (1800-878) involved herself with an evangelical zeal both in the actual teaching of women and in campaigning for female education. The recognition she gained for her work in this area--and for...

The philosophy of halfness and the philosophy of duality: Julia Ward Howe and Ednah Dow Cheney.
March 22, 2004... There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. --Margaret Fuller What a creature is man that he can so project his living thought into ages which have never seen his face nor heard his voice! --Julia Ward Howe So will...

The Descent of Man and the Evolution of Woman.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... Toward the end of the nineteenth century, white American feminist theorists assessed the potential of evolution theory as a feminist resource. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1) wrote: "Nothing so important to the women's movement [as the theory of...

Anna Julia Cooper: "dedicated in the name of my slave mother to the education of colored working people".(Biography)
March 22, 2004... Only the BLACK WOMAN can say "when and where I enter, in the quiet undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me." --Anna Julia Cooper ...

Thinking from the margins, acting at the intersections: Anna Julia Cooper's A Voice from the South.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... Your philosophy, I presume, lifts you above the toils and anxieties the ambitions and aspirations of the common herd. Pardon me, but do you not feel called to devote those superior powers of yours to the uplifting of your less favored...

Rebuilding Babylon: the pluralism of Lydia Maria Child.(Biography)
March 22, 2004... In his well-known work, The Public and Its Problems (1984), John Dewey provides a prescription for the ills of American democracy. Writing in 1926, during a time of unparalleled wealth and unparalleled poverty, racism, sexism, anti-Semitism,...

Before "care": Marietta Kies, Lucia Ames Mead, and feminist political theory.
March 22, 2004... The "ethic of care," introduced by Carol Gilligan in her 1982 work, In a Different Voice, prompted feminists in political and legal philosophy to look seriously at what political discourse might look like if women, rather than men, were its...

Jane Addams's social thought as a model for a pragmatist-feminist communitarianism.
March 22, 2004... All higher aims live only by communion and fellowship... cultivated most easily in the fostering soil of a community life. --Jane Addams Since the late 1980s we have seen a renewed discussion about the meaning and value of community...

Canon fodder: new works by and about women philosophers.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Truth demands an exposure of the evils of opinions and practices. --Catharine E. Beecher, Letters on the Difficulties of Religion An evil opinion harbored until recently is that philosophy is a man's enterprise. That opinion created an...

Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women. By VIRGINIA VALIAN. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998. In Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women (1998), Virginia Valian has produced a clear introduction for the nonspecialist about the explanatory power of...

A Review of Stephen J. Schulhofer's Unwanted Sex: The Culture of Intimidation and the Failure of Law.(Book Reviews)(Rape and the Culture of the Courtroom)(Unwanted Sex: The Culture of Intimidation and the Failure of Law)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Rape and Equal Protection: A Review of STEPHEN J. SCHULHOFER'S Unwanted Sex: The Culture of Intimidation and the Failure of Law (Harvard University Press, 1998) and ANDREW E. TASLITZ'S Rape and the Culture of the Courtroom (New York University...

The Phenomenal Woman: Feminist Metaphysics and the Pattern of Identity.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Christine Battersby, author of Gender and Genius: Towards a Feminist Aesthetics (1990), undertakes the difficult task of arguing on behalf of metaphysics in the antimetaphysical environment of postmodern and reconstructive feminist theory. In...

A Review of Feminist Perspectives on the Body.(Book Reviews)(Perspectives on Embodiment: The Intersection of Nature and Culture)(Women's Bodies: Discipline and Transgression)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The Body at Century's End: A Review of Feminist Perspectives on the Body by BARBARA BROOK. London and New York: Longman, 1999; Perspectives on Embodiment: The Intersection of Nature and Culture by GAIL WEISS and HONI FERN HABER, eds. New York...

Feminism, Identity and Difference.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Feminism, Identity and Difference edited by SUSAN HEKMAN. London: Frank Cass, 1999. Feminism, Identity, and Difference (1999), edited by Susan Hekman, focuses on a set of issues raised by contemporary feminist theory, such as identity...

Becomings: Explorations in Time, Memory, and Futures.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Becomings: Explorations in Time, Memory, and Futures. Edited by ELIZABETH GROSZ. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1999. In her introduction to Becomings: Explorations in Time, Memory, and Futures (1999), editor Elizabeth Grosz states...

Collective Imaginings: Spinoza, Past and Present.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Collective Imaginings: Spinoza, Past and Present. By MOIRA GATENS and GENEVIEVE LLOYD. New York: Routledge, 1999. Benedict Spinoza's philosophy has typically been overshadowed by the work of others. But now, due to growing interest in...

Deep Democracy: Community, Diversity, Transformation.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Deep Democracy: Community, Diversity, Transformation. By JUDITH GREEN. Lanham, Md: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999. In recent years, scholars of American philosophy have done considerable work to unearth, rediscover, reclaim, and otherwise...

The Impossibility of Motherhood: Feminism, Individualism, and the Problem of Mothering.(Book Reviews)(Modern Maternity: A Review of The Impossibility of Motherhood: Feminism, Individualism, and the Problem of Mothering)(In Defense of Single-Parent Families)(Mother Troubles: Rethinking Contemporary Maternal Dilemmas)(Transformative Motherhood: On Giving and Getting in a Consumer Culture)(Without Child: Challenging the Stigma of Childlessness)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Modern Maternity: A Review of The Impossibility of Motherhood: Feminism, Individualism, and the Problem of Mothering by PATRICE DIQUINZIO. New York: Routledge, 1999; In Defense of Single-Parent Families by NANCY E. DOWD. New York: New York...

Feminist Interpretations of Descartes.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Feminist Interpretations of Descartes, ed. SUSAN BORDO. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. This volume manages to bring Susan Bordo's more strictly philosophical work together with her recent critiques of...

Legitimate Differences: Interpretation in the Abortion Controversy and Other Public Debates.(Book Reviews)(Legitimate Differences: Interpretation in the Abortion Controversy and Other Public Debates)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Legitimate Differences: Interpretation in the Abortion Controversy and Other Public Debates. By GEORGIA WARNKE. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999. Deeply concerned about the possibilities of political agreement...

Reproducing the State.(Book Reviews)(Reproducing the State)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Reproducing the State. By JACQUELINE STEVENS. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. Kinship practices are the mechanisms by which all states reproduce themselves, including modern democracies. Although liberals' social contract...

Feminist Perspectives on Ethics.(Book Reviews)(Recent Contributions to Feminist Ethics: A Review of Feminist Perspectives on Ethics)(Three Challenges to Ethics )(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Recent Contributions to Feminist Ethics: A Review of Feminist Perspectives on Ethics by ELIZABETH PORTER. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Education, 1999); Three Challenges to Ethics by JAMES STERBA. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001;...

Books received.(Bibliography)
March 22, 2004... Allen, Anita L. 2003. Why privacy isn't everything: Feminist reflections on personal accountability. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. Ball, Terence, and Richard Dagger. 2004. Political ideologies and the democratic ideal. 5th ed. New...