Hypatia articles from September 1997

Hypatia archives from September 1997

Anti-anti-identity politics: feminism, democracy, and the complexities of citizenship.
September 22, 1997... In this essay, I argue that recent leftist criticisms of "identity politics" do not address problems of inequality and interaction that are central in thinking about contemporary democratic politics. I turn instead to a set of feminist thinkers...

Ecofeminist citizenship.
September 22, 1997... In this article I discuss how some women activists experience their citizenship locally and around the world through their work for the environment and resistance to systems which threaten world existence. By looking at the oikos-polis...

Women, utopia, and narrative: toward a postmodern feminist citizenship.
September 22, 1997... Feminist utopian novels reconstruct citizenship by interrogating ideological assumptions at the root of civil rights theory, particularly its reliance on the sexual contract and the family romance narrative. While many feminist citizenships...

(In)Quest of liberal feminism.
September 22, 1997... I am interested in exploring the usefulness and limits of traditional categories of feminist theory, such as those laid out by Alison Jaggar (1977; 1983). I begin the analysis by critically comparing various treatments of liberal feminism. I...

Feminist Interpretations of G. W. F. Hegel.
September 22, 1997... Feminist Interpretations of G. W. F. Hegel. Edited by PATRICIA JAGENTOWICZ MILLS. Pennsylvania State Press, 1996. This collection, part of the Re-Reading the Canon series under the general editorship of Nancy Tuana, contains thirteen essays...

Justice and Care: Essential Readings in Feminist Ethics.
September 22, 1997... Justice and Care: Essential Readings in Feminist Ethics. Edited by VIRGINIA HELD. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995. In just two decades, courses in feminist ethics have gone from daring, exploratory, "special topics" offerings using...

Reproduction, Ethics, and the Law.
September 22, 1997... Reproduction, Ethics, and the Law. Edited by JOAN CALLAHAN. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1995 Reproducing Persons: Issues in Feminist Bioethics. By LAURA PURDY. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996. Beyond Pro-Life and...

Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism.
September 22, 1997... Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism. By ELIZABETH GROSZ. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. The body has been both an attraction and a curse to those concerned with analyzing and transforming oppressive social systems. On...

Imaginary Bodies: Ethics, Power and Corporeality.
September 22, 1997... Imaginary Bodies: Ethics, Power and Corporeality. By MOIRA GATENS. New York: Routledge, 1996. Feminist discussions of the symbolic representations of women and of the metaphysical notion "Woman" in Western thought have become more familiar...

A politics of enlarged mentality: Hannah Arendt, citizenship responsibility, and feminism.
September 22, 1997... Drawing from four Arendtian themes--plurality, the public realm, power, and perspective appreciation--I argue for citizenship as a "politics of enlarged mentality." This term suggests an alternative conception of citizenship that surpasses the...

Social citizenship from a feminist perspective.
September 22, 1997... In this article I construct a feminist notion of social citizenship from early twentieth-century feminism in the United States. Arguing that there are four aspects to the interconnection between women's citizenship and social democracy--new...

Dialectics of citizenship.
September 22, 1997... Elements comprising a set of building blocks for a feminist reconstruction of citizenship might include: a critical synthesis of citizenship as a status and a practice; strengthening the inclusive side of citizenship (within and across...

Dissident citizenship: democratic theory, political courage, and activist women.
September 22, 1997... In this essay, I argue that contemporary democratic theory gives insufficient attention to the important contributions dissenting citizens make to democratic life. Guided by the dissident practices of activist women, I develop a more expansive...

For Wollstonecraft. (writer Mary Wollstonecraft)(Obituary)
September 22, 1997... On the loth of September, 1797, Mary Wollstonecraft died from puerperal fever, the result of the birth of her second daughter, Mary, later famous as Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein. Wollstonecraft was then thirty-eight years old, the same...

Dialectics of citizenship.(Special Issue Citizenship in Feminism: Identity, Action, and Locale)
September 22, 1997... Feminist citizenship theorists face a dual question: whether a concept originally predicated on the very exclusion of women can be reformulated so as satisfactorily to include and not simply append them; and in doing so, whether it can give full...

A politics of enlarged mentality: Hannah Arendt, citizenship responsibility, and feminism.(Special Issue Citizenship in Feminism: Identity, Action, and Locale)
September 22, 1997... Feminist theorists have exposed the flaws in two of the most widely heralded models of citizenship. Whether revealing the gendered nature of the autonomous subject that defines the liberal ideal of the citizen or exposing the masculinized...

Social citizenship from a feminist perspective.(Special Issue: Citizenship in Feminism: Identity, Action, and Locale)
September 22, 1997... Contemporary feminist theorists of citizenship and democracy face the challenge of creating a language and a vision to counter the hegemonic terminology that justifies the dismantling of the welfare state. As we question the restructuring because...

Dissident citizenship: democratic theory, political courage, and activist women.(SPecial Issue Citizenship in Feminism: Identity, Action, and Locale)
September 22, 1997... A black woman named Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955 and goes to jail. A group of welfare mothers led by Johnnie May Tillmon challenges the attempts of white, middle-class male organizers...

Anti-anti-identity politics: feminism, democracy, and the complexities of citizenship.(Special Issue Citizenship n Feminism: Identity, Action, and Locale)
September 22, 1997... Radical democratic political action attempts to perform the paradoxical task of achieving egalitarian goals in egalitarian ways in an inegalitarian context. The danger is that bracketing social and economic inequality "as though" we were all...

Ecofeminist citizenship.(Special Issue Citizenship in Feminism: Identity, Action, and Locale)
September 22, 1997... All classes must be deemed to have their special attributes; as the poet says of women, "Silence is a woman's glory" but this is not equally the glory of man. (Aristotle, The Politics) The women are speaking. Those who were identified as having...

Women, utopia, and narrative: toward a postmodern feminist citizenship.(Special Issue Citizenship in Feminism: Identity, Action, and Locale)
September 22, 1997... As Rachel Blau DuPlessis argues in Writing Beyond the Ending, the romance plot - one that ends with either heterosexual union in marriage or the sexual failure of the heroine, marked by death - has served as the predominant mode of narrative...

(In)Quest of liberal feminism.(Special Issue Citizenship in Feminism: Identity, Action, and Locale)
September 22, 1997... SETTING OUT THE QUESTIONS I was introduced to systematic attempts to discuss the divisions in feminist political theory, such as that put forth by Alison Jaggar in Feminist Politics and Human Nature (1983), in a graduate-level class in...

Feminist Interpretations of G.W.F. Hegel.
September 22, 1997... Barbara S. Krasner This collection, part of the Re-Reading the Canon series under the general editorship of Nancy Tuana, contains thirteen essays covering many important aspects of the feminist study of G. W. F. Hegel. For this reason it is a...

Justice and Care: Essential Readings in Feminist Ethics.
September 22, 1997... Peggy DesAutels In just two decades, courses in feminist ethics have gone from daring, exploratory, "special topics" offerings using hot-off-the-press handouts to regularly scheduled mainstays in college curricula. Feminist scholars and their...

Reproduction, Ethics, and the Law.
September 22, 1997... Reproducing Norms: Recent (Mainly) White Feminist Perspectives Anita LaFrance Allen Recent philosophical discussions of the norms of human reproduction reflect a welcome sea change: abortion rights are no longer just about every feminist's...

Reproducing Persons: Issues in Feminist Bioethics.
September 22, 1997... Reproducing Norms: Recent (Mainly) White Feminist Perspectives Anita LaFrance Allen Recent philosophical discussions of the norms of human reproduction reflect a welcome sea change: abortion rights are no longer just about every feminist's...

Beyond Pro-Life and Pro-Choice.
September 22, 1997... Reproducing Norms: Recent (Mainly) White Feminist Perspectives Anita LaFrance Allen Recent philosophical discussions of the norms of human reproduction reflect a welcome sea change: abortion rights are no longer just about every feminist's...

Volatile Bodies: Towards a Corporeal Feminism.
September 22, 1997... Joan Mason-Grant The body has been both an attraction and a curse to those concerned with analyzing and transforming oppressive social systems. On the one hand, feminist and other critical philosophies have been adept at showing how the...

Imaginary Bodies: Ethics, Power and Corporeality.
September 22, 1997... Carolyn DiPalma Feminist discussions of the symbolic representations of women and of the metaphysical notion "Woman" in Western thought have become more familiar and frequent in recent years. Moira Gatens joins these conversations with...