Hypatia articles from September 1994

Hypatia archives from September 1994

Introduction: Prolegomenon to future feminist philosophies of religions. (Special Issue: Feminist Philosophy of Religion)
September 22, 1994... Where are all the feminist philosophers of religion?(1) In recent decades feminist scholars in all disciplines have been moved both to rethink the fields in which we were trained and to develop and promote a whole range of interdisciplinary...

Feminist social criticism and Marx's theory of religion. (Special Issue: Feminist Philosophy of Religion)
September 22, 1994... An antireligious stance often seems to be taken for granted in current feminist philosophical discourse. Despite recent thorough feminist critiques of rationalism, essentialism, and universalism, it seems to be widely assumed that the critique of...

Dismantling the master's house: a Hestian/Hermean deconstruction of classic texts. (Special Issue: Feminist Philosophy of Religion)
September 22, 1994... Almost two decades ago Marilyn B. Arthur pointed out that the association of virgin deities with the great rituals having to do with women's lives and with the household (oikos), site of women's lives, is quite regular; and she identified both...

The idea of God in feminist philosophy. (Special Issue: Feminist Philosophy of Religion)
September 22, 1994... The new wave of feminism desperately needs to be not only many-faceted but cosmic and ultimately religious in its vision. This means reaching outward and inward toward the God beyond and beneath the gods who have stolen our identity. (Mary Daly,...

Women, earth, and the goddess: a Shakta-Hindu interpretation of embodied religion. (Special Issue: Feminist Philosophy of Religion)
September 22, 1994... One can approach the topic of women and religion in two ways. On the one hand, one can produce detailed documentation to show how a given religious tradition has historically excluded and degraded women in religious life. On the other hand, one...

"The only diabolical thing about women ...": Luce Irigaray on divinity. (Special Issue: Feminist Philosophy of Religion)
September 22, 1994... The only diabolical thing about women is their lack of a God and the fact that, deprived of God, they are forced to comply with models that do not match them, that exile, double, mask them, cut them off from themselves and from one another,...

Presence with a difference: Buddhists and feminists on subjectivity. (Special Issue: Feminist Philosophy of Religion)
September 22, 1994... Postmodernist narratives about subjectivity are inadequate. (Jane Flax, Thinking Fragments) Without mindfulness there will be no reconstitution of already acquired knowledge and consciousness itself would break to pieces, become fragmentary....

Kierkegaard and the feminine self. (Soren Kierkegaard) (Special Issue: Feminist Philosophy of Religion)
September 22, 1994... Kierkegaard's writings offer us a rich and often devastatingly insightful analysis of human selfhood; indeed, it could well be argued that the core of the Authorship, which includes all those works which Kierkegaard published under his own name...

Beauvoir, Irigaray, and the mystical. (Simone de Beauvoir, Luce Irigaray) (Special Issue: Feminist Philosophy of Religion)
September 22, 1994... But her desire, as we have seen, is much more ambiguous: She wishes, in a contradictory fashion, to have this [male] transcendence, which is to suppose that she at once respects it and denies it, that she intends at once to throw herself into it...

Feminists, philosophers, and mystics. (Special Issue: Feminist Philosophy of Religion)
September 22, 1994... What is mysticism? Is it an experience of direct communion with God? Or is it just a human phenomenon, at its best benign piety and at its worst muddleheaded fanaticism claiming divine authority for intolerant behavior? Is mysticism something...

Finding our feminist ways in natural philosophy and religious thought. (Special Issue: Feminist Philosophy of Religion)
September 22, 1994... Feminist spiritual and religious thought is central to attaining the kind of experiential transformation that is required for development of a genuine ecological wisdom. Many feminist and womanist religious thinkers have made a reformulation of...

Epilogue: Prolegomenon to future feminist philosophies of religions. (Special Issue: Feminist Philosophy of Religion)
September 22, 1994... There is something nicely outrageous about proposing a Special Issue for Hypatia in a field that does not yet exist. Some of us may use "feminist philosopher of religion" as a self-description, even while recognizing that it has no referent...