Hypatia articles from September 1995

Hypatia archives from September 1995

Selves, diverse and divided: can feminists have diversity without multiplicity?
September 22, 1995... In this essay I explore what we mean when we speak of selves as unified or divided.(1) The issue is of more than philosophical interest because philosophers and nonphilosophers alike strive to understand and cope with their inner diversity in...

Decisions of identity: feminist subjects and grammars of sexuality.
September 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION At a recent APA "smoker" I found myself in a very uncomfortable conversation with a new acquaintance whose open and forthright observations about her own lesbianism solicited nothing less than full disclosure from her...

Between Hypatia and Beauvoir: philosophy as discourse.
September 22, 1995... The woman as philosopher has emerged as a key issue in the feminist critique of western epistemology. One questions whether, for example, there is a uniquely female approach to knowledge, truth, ethics, or other domains of philosophical...

Irigaray's mimicry and the problem of essentialism.
September 22, 1995... Mimicry reveals something in so far as it is distinct from what might be called an itself that is behind. The effect of mimicry is camouflage, in the strictly technical sense. It is not a question of harmonizing with the background but, against a...

Amazon intertextuality and sinousity in Sandra Shotlander's 'Angels of Power.'
September 22, 1995... When groups of women turn away from the men to whom they have been previously bound by ties of blood or common interest, by ties of privilege or oppression, when the women turn toward one another to support, maintain, regain, and renew their...

Telling stories: metaphors of the human genome project.
September 22, 1995... Each example in our ever-expanding collection of metaphoric worlds will be at best a half-truth. (Wayne Booth 1988) We in the West have long been seduced by tales of (male) heroes conquering nature. Embedded in our literature, folklore,...

Situating the Self: Gender, Community and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics.
September 22, 1995... By SEYLA BENHABIB. New York: Routledge, 1992. Imagination and community, two elements of everyday life, bear a fascinating and troubled relationship to one another and preoccupy philosophers and political theorists as well as cultural...

Re-Educating the Imagination: Toward a Poetics, Politics and Pedagogy of Literary Engagement.
September 22, 1995... By DEANNE BOGDAN. New Hampshire Boynton Cook Publishers, 1992. Imagination and community, two elements of everyday life, bear a fascinating and troubled relationship to one another and preoccupy philosophers and political theorists as well...

Review essay.
September 22, 1995... Imagination and community, two elements of everyday life, bear a fascinating and troubled relationship to one another and preoccupy philosophers and political theorists as well as cultural theorists, activists, educators, and artists. Our...

The Man Question: Visions of Subjectivity in Feminist Theory.
September 22, 1995... By KATHY E. FERGUSON. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993. Cheryl Hall As Kathy Ferguson makes clear in the first chapter of this book, The Man Question is not really about "man," or even "men." The title is,...

Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body.
September 22, 1995... By SUSAN BORDO. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Susan Hekman When I first read the advertisements for these two books, Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, by Susan Bordo, arid Bodies That Matter: On...

Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex.
September 22, 1995... By JUDITH BUTLER. New York: Routledge, 1993. Susan Hekman When I first read the advertisements for these two books, Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, by Susan Bordo, arid Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive...

Reading Kristeva: Unraveling the Double Bind.
September 22, 1995... By KELLY OLIVER. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993. Ewa Plonowska Ziarek The first comprehensive feminist interpretation of Julia Kristeva's work, Reading Kristeva: Unraveling the Double Bind is an important contribution to the...

Hypatia of Alexandria.
September 22, 1995... by Maria Dzielska. Translated by F. Lyra. Cambridge Harvard University Press, 1995. Mary Ellen Waithe In Hypatia of Alexandria, by Maria Dzielska, the author's aim, as stated on the jacket flap is to construct a "compelling picture of...

Joyce Trebilcot: member of the ancient and honorable society of outsiders on the occasion of the publication of 'Dyke Ideas' and of her retirement from teaching at Washington University in St. Louis.(Archive)
September 22, 1995... In 1994, Joyce Trebilcot retired from teaching at Washington University in St. Louis, where she had founded the Women's Studies Program and had been a member of the Philosophy Department since 1970. In the Fall of 1994 I participated on a...