Hypatia articles from September 2002

Hypatia archives from September 2002

The other as another other.
September 22, 2002... De Beauvoir and Irigaray are archetypes of two opposed feminisms: egalitarian feminism and radical feminism of difference. Yet a filiation exists between de Beauvoir's claim, that women is Other, and Irigaray's Speculum of the Other Woman. This...

A feminist critique of the alleged Southern debt.(HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE 9TH SYMPOSIUM OF THE IAPH)
September 22, 2002... Neoliberal globalization has deepened the impoverishment and marginalization of many women. This system is maintained by the debt supposedly owed by many poor nations in the global South to a few rich nations in the global North, because the...

Problems with autonomy.
September 22, 2002... The article first develops an account of autonomy, explaining individual autonomy by means of three normative components and then discussing two objections. The first objection claims that autonomy has to be thought of as essentially...

Transforming sacrifice: Irigaray and the politics of sexual difference.
September 22, 2002... This essay examines Irigaray's analysis of politics and the political implications of her critique of sacrificial orders that repress difference/matter. I suggest that her descriptions of a fluid "feminine" can be read as an alternative...

Love and death--and other somatic transactions.(SYMPOSIUM)
September 22, 2002... This paper both elaborates and interrogates the transactional model of human experience at the center of Shannon W. Sullivan's Living Across and Through Skins. In particular, it highlights the need (especially given her concerns and...

Shedding skins.(SYMPOSIUM)
September 22, 2002... I argue that the experimental method, like the corporeality of the body and the permeability of skins, links John Dewey and Friedrich Nietzsche. I raise questions about referring to bodies rather than body-minds, emphasizing hypothetical...

The anonymous intentions of transactional bodies.(SYMPOSIUM)
September 22, 2002... This review offers a critical analysis of Shannon Sullivan's "feminist pragmatist standpoint theory" as a framework for thinking about issues of identity and truth. Sullivan claims that Maurice Merleau-Ponty's emphasis on an anonymous or...

Pragmatist feminism as ecological ontology: reflections on Living Across and Through Skins.(SYMPOSIUM)
September 22, 2002... In my response to the comments of Vincent Colapietro, Charlene Seigfried, and Gail Weiss on Living Across and Through Skins (Sullivan 2001), I explain pragmatist feminism as an ecological ontology that understands bodies and environments as...

On cardiac rhythms.
September 22, 2002... "Organized discourse is of no use to me." "What is most true is most poetic." "My business is to translate our emotions into writings. First we feel. Then I write. This act of writing engenders the author. I write the genesis that...

Feminist Interpretations of Jean-Paul Sartre.
September 22, 2002... Feminist Interpretations of Jean-Paul Sartre. Edited by JULIEN S. MURPHY. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press. 1999. While reading Feminist Interpretations of Jean-Paul Sartre, one is convinced that Sartre's theories,...

Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?
September 22, 2002... Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? By SUSAN MOLLER OKIN. Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press, 1999. Should we ask if Multiculturalism is bad for women? I first agreed to review the book Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? because...

On Feminist Ethics & Politics.
September 22, 2002... On Feminist Ethics & Politics. Edited by CLAUDIA CARD. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. Claudia Card situates feminist ethics and politics in what she calls, following Primo Levi, gray zones. The gray zone that interests Card is...

Women in Plato's Political Theory.
September 22, 2002... Women in Plato's Political Theory. By MORAL BUCHAN. London, New York: Routledge, 1999. When feminists of the seventies looked over the dismal range of writings by political theorists in the Western tradition from the ancients to the modern...

Feminist Interpretations of Aristotle.
September 22, 2002... Feminist Interpretations of Aristotle. Edited by CYNTHIA A. FREELAND. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. This volume consists of twelve essays, mostly newly published, on a variety of topics in Aristotelian...

Telling Flesh: The Substance of the Corporeal.
September 22, 2002... Telling Flesh: The Substance of the Corporeal by VICKI KIRBY New York: Routledge, 1997. Upon reading Telling Flesh, I was most impressed by Vicki Kirby's sophisticated critical analysis of some of the most widely used but least understood...

Vital Signs: Nature, Culture, Psychoanalysis.
September 22, 2002... Vital Signs: Nature, Culture, Psychoanalysis. By CHARLES SHEPHERDSON. London, New York: Routledge, 2000. Charles Shepherdson's lucid and erudite book, Vital Signs: Nature, Culture, Psychoanalysis, makes four crucial contributions to...

The apotheosis of home and the maintenance of spaces of violence.
September 22, 2002... The "Home" is ideologically understood as a place of safety and refuge. Such an account cloaks violence against women. The voices of battered women can disrupt that dominant construction of the space of the home, a construction typified by the...

"Singing for Our Lives": women's music and democratic politics.
September 22, 2002... Although democratic theorists often employ musical metaphors to describe their politics, musical practices are seldom analyzed as forms of political communication. In this article, I explore how the music of social movements, what is called...

Gender and trust in science.
September 22, 2002... It is now recognized that relations of trust play an epistemic role in science. The contested issue is under what conditions trust in scientific testimony is warranted. I argue that John Hardwig's view of trustworthy scientific testimony is...

The Other as another Other.
September 22, 2002... I. THE STANDARD ACCOUNT OF DE BEAUVOIR AND IRIGARY Since the 1980s a standard history of twentieth-century feminist thought has developed, at least within Australia, that goes something like this: until the 1970s, feminism embraced a...

Transforming sacrifice: Irigaray and the politics of sexual difference.
September 22, 2002... INTRODUCTION In her earliest works, Luce Irigaray links the exclusion of women from philosophical discourse to the exclusion of women from the polis (Whitford 1991, 101). She claims a radical reconceptualization of politics is necessary if...

The apotheosis of home and the maintenance of spaces of violence.
September 22, 2002... Intimate violation of women by men is sufficiently pervasive in American society as to be nearly invisible. Contained by internalized and structural forms of power, it has been nearly inaudible. --Catherine MacKinnon, Sexual Harassment of...

"Singing for Our Lives": women's music and democratic politics.
September 22, 2002... Although democratic theorists often employ musical metaphors to describe their politics, musical practices are seldom analyzed as forms of political communication. In this article, I explore how the music of social movements, what is called...

Gender and trust in science.
September 22, 2002... I. INTRODUCTION Philosophers of science have come to recognize that trust plays an epistemic role in science (Hardwig 1985, 1988, 1991; Kitcher 1990, 1992, 1993). Scientists typically accept some of the basic assumptions in their field by...

A feminist critique of the alleged Southern debt. (Highlights from the 9th Symposium of the IAPH).
September 22, 2002... On 7 September 2000, a petition requesting cancellation of the debts owed by the most impoverished nations and signed by over 22 million people was handed to world leaders meeting at the Millennium Summit of the United Nations. This paper...

Problems with autonomy. (Highlights from the 9th Symposium of the IAPH).
September 22, 2002... The subject of the following article is on the one hand the explanation and justification of a certain concept of autonomy; and on the other hand some fundamental doubt with respect to the possibility of this autonomy; not in the sense, though,...

Love and death--and other somatic transactions. (Symposium).
September 22, 2002... INTRODUCTION The title of Shannon W. Sullivan's book is an echo of John Dewey's claim that organisms live "as much in processes across and 'through' skins as in processes 'within' skins" (1949, 1-2). The sense conveyed therein is a keynote...

Shedding skins. (Symposium).
September 22, 2002... Pragmatism's method of inquiry is experimental. In saying this, the tendency is to think of it as abdicating the responsibility to think clearly about difficult issues by succumbing to a crude scientism of quantifiable facts. But according to...

The anonymous intentions of transactional bodies. (Symposium).
September 22, 2002... THE INGREDIENTS Living Across and Through Skins (2001) offers a new point of departure for thinking about bodies, identities, and cultures. Shannon Sullivan utilizes what she calls a feminist pragmatist standpoint theory to achieve a...

Pragmatist feminism as ecological ontology: reflections on Living Across and Through Skins. (Symposium).
September 22, 2002... I am honored to have Vincent Colapietro, Charlene Seigfried, and Gail Weiss comment on Living Across and Through Skins (Sullivan 2001). Out of the many scholars I admire and whose thought I respect, these three stand out because of their...

On cardiac rhythms. (Review Essay).
September 22, 2002... "Organized discourse is of no use to me." "What is most true is most poetic." "My business is to translate our emotions into writings. First we feel. Then I write. This act of writing engenders the author. I write the genesis that...

Feminist Interpretations of Jean-Paul Sartre. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Feminist Interpretations of Jean-Paul Sartre. Edited by JULIEN S. MURPHY. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press. 1999. While reading Feminist Interpretations of Jean-Paul Sartre, one is convinced that Sartre's theories,...

Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? By SUSAN MOLLER OKIN. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999. Should we ask if Multiculturalism is bad for women? I first agreed to review the book Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?...

On Feminist Ethics & Politics. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... On Feminist Ethics & Politics. Edited by CLAUDIA CARD. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. Claudia Card situates feminist ethics and politics in what she calls, following Primo Levi, gray zones. The gray zone that interests Card is...

Women in Plato's Political Theory. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Women in Plato's Political Theory. By MORAG BUCHAN. London, New York: Routledge, 1999. When feminists of the seventies looked over the dismal range of writings by political theorists in the Western tradition from the ancients to the modern...

Feminist Interpretations of Aristotle. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Feminist Interpretations of Aristotle. Edited by CYNTHIA A. FREELAND. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. This volume consists of twelve essays, mostly newly published, on a variety of topics in Aristotelian...

Telling Flesh: The Substance of the Corporeal. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Telling Flesh: The Substance of the Corporeal by VICKI KIRBY New York: Routledge, 1997. Upon reading Telling Flesh, I was most impressed by Vicki Kirby's sophisticated critical analysis of some of the most widely used but least understood...

Vital Signs: Nature, Culture, Psychoanalysis. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Vital Signs: Nature, Culture, Psychoanalysis. By CHARLES SHEPHERDSON. London, New York: Routledge, 2000. Charles Shepherdson's lucid and erudite book, Vital Signs: Nature, Culture, Psychoanalysis, makes four crucial contributions to...

Books received.(Bibliography)
September 22, 2002... Allen, Sister Prudence, R. S. M. 2000. The concept of woman. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Antony, Louise M., and Charlotte E. Witt, eds. 2002. A mind of one's own: Feminist essays on reason and objectivity....