Hypatia articles from September 1998

Hypatia archives from September 1998

Monogamy, nonmonogamy, and identity.
September 22, 1998... After a brief discussion of the terms "monogamy" and "nonmonogamy," I evaluate explanations offered by different theorists for the pain that nonmonogamy can cause to the partner (especially a female partner) of a nonmonogamous person (of either...

Dangerous loyalties and liberatory politics.
September 22, 1998... While communities engaged in liberatory struggles have valued group loyalty and condemned betrayal, loyalty itself may be problematic, because remaining loyal to a community may require that one refrain from deconstructing the group identity on...

Mary Astell: defender of the 'disembodied mind.'.
September 22, 1998... This paper demonstrates how Mary Astell's version of Cartesian dualism supports her disavowal of female subordination and traditional gender roles, her rejection of Locke's notion of "thinking matter" as a major premise for rejecting his...

Knowledge as masculine heroism or embodied perception: knowledge, will, and desire in Nietzsche.
September 22, 1998... Two distinct doctrines of the will operate in Nietzsche. On one, each person has a will that grows out of their engagement with life. This view can be the basis for a feminist epistemology. On the other, the will must be stimulated through the...

A hasty retreat from evidence: the recalcitrance of relativism in feminist epistemology.
September 22, 1998... While feminist epistemologists have made important contributions to the deconstruction of the traditional representationalist model, some elements of the Cartesian legacy remain. For example, relativism continues to play a role in the...

Feminist Approaches to Bioethics: Theoretical Reflections and Practical Applications.(Review)
September 22, 1998... By ROSEMARIE TONG. Boulder: Westview, 1997. Hilde Lindemann Nelson The Women's Liberation Movement of the late 1960s sparked the second wave of feminism at the very moment when the founding of the Hastings Center and the Kennedy...