Hypatia articles from September 1996

Hypatia archives from September 1996

Remembering Elizabeth Flower (1915-1995).(Special Issue: Women and Violence)(Obituary)
September 22, 1996... She was so intellectually alive, sparkling really. And her eyes were so beautifully blue, her quick laughter so warm, her purchase on the future always so full of plans, her enjoyment of life and its activities so evident. And although Elizabeth...

Rape as a weapon of war.(Special Issue: Women and Violence)
September 22, 1996... Rape in war - martial rape - has even arrived in the movies. Within the past year, films I have seen featuring or portraying rape in war or in warlike situations, include Death and the Maiden (featuring a woman who survived rape by a physician...

Gender and "postmodern war."(Special Issue: Women and Violence)
September 22, 1996... A new "war" consciousness is developing in Europe. With the recent Gulf War and the current devastation in the heart of Europe, Western intellectuals are beginning to respond to war as a presence, as opposed to a determinative event in our...

War is not just an event: reflections on the significance of everyday violence.(Special Issue: Women and Violence)
September 22, 1996... Philosophical attention to war has typically appeared in the form of justifications for entering into war, and over appropriate activities within war. The spatial metaphors used to refer to war as a separate, bounded sphere indicate assumptions...

The laws of war and women's human rights.(Special Issue: Women and Violence)
September 22, 1996... The recent establishment of war crimes tribunals has renewed interest in the laws of war and their effectiveness as a mechanism of humanitarian intervention, international peace and justice, and enforcer of human rights. Concurrent with the...

Deconstructive strategies and the movement against sexual violence.(Special Issue: Women and Violence)
September 22, 1996... The movement against sexual violence works to expose the reality of rape culture(1) through the narration of women's experiences in the public sphere in speakouts and through the media.(2) Women are encouraged by movement activists and theorists...

The dance of dependency: a genealogy of domestic violence discourse.(Special Issue: Women and Violence)
September 22, 1996... In the 1990s, "domestic violence" represents a convoluted, contradictory discourse that incorporates the contested terrains of sex, love, violence, law, and truth. This discourse is a feminist victory, on one side, as it has urged social...

Confessionals, testimonials: women's speech in/and contexts of violence.(Special Issue: Women and Violence)
September 22, 1996... Can the Subaltern Speak? (Spivak 1988, 271) I would include Lauretis's point here, that the identity of a woman is the product of her own interpretation and reconstruction of her history, as mediated through the cultural discursive context to...

The voice on the skin: self-mutilation and Merleau-Ponty's theory of language.
September 22, 1996... Merleau-Ponty's theory of language implies that, since language is an outgrowth of our bodily existence, human experience will and always must be communicated. As long as human beings breathe, we will say our lives in order to have or live our...

Intersecting memories: bearing witness to the 1989 massacre of women in Montreal.(Special Issue: Women and Violence)
September 22, 1996... We turn to the past with new questions because of present commitments, but we also remember more deeply what a changed present requires us to know. (Plaskow 1990, 53) INTRODUCTION Fourteen women were murdered by a lone gunman in the early...

Double binds: Latin American women's prison memories.(Special Issue: Women and Violence)
September 22, 1996... Speaking about Argentina during the 1970s and early 1980s, Frank Graziano suggests that the military government used political repression not so much to eliminate its left-wing opponents as to torture its enemies as embodiments of political...