Hypatia articles from September 2005

Hypatia archives from September 2005

Feminist philosophy in the analytic tradition.(Editorial)
September 22, 2005... What is analytical feminism? In the Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Ann E. Cudd defines it as follows: "Analytical feminism applies analytic concepts and methods to feminist issues and applies feminist concepts and insights to issues that...

What are we talking about? The semantics and politics of social kinds.
September 22, 2005... When we talk of gender and race, at one level it is pretty clear what we're talking about. Although there are cases where it is hard to tell from casual observation what race or gender a person is, and although there are borderline cases in...

The political structure of emotion: from dismissal to dialogue.
September 22, 2005... "The communication of sentiment" between persons is such a remarkable quality of human nature in Hume's estimation that he devotes much attention to explaining the nature and structure of this phenomenon. The communication of sentiment may be...

The epistemological evaluation of oppositional secrets.
September 22, 2005... I keep secrets. Even though I am told over and over by white feminists that we must reveal ourselves, open ourselves, I keep secrets. Disclosing our secrets threatens our survival. --Maria Lugones Postcolonial and other oppositional...

Because I said so: toward a feminist theory of authority.
September 22, 2005... The two of us, like many of our female friends and colleagues in academia, have often encountered challenges to our authority in the classroom. Here are a couple of representative instances: 1. In a class called "Philosophical Issues in...

A woman's scorn: toward a feminist defense of contempt as a moral emotion.
September 22, 2005... What's the difference between a cantankerous, contemptuous woman and a pit bull? Lipstick! --Anonymous FEMINIST ANALYSES OF THE NEGATIVE EMOTIONS Many feminist philosophers have argued that emotions traditionally considered...

Whether to ignore them and spin: moral obligations to resist sexual harassment.
September 22, 2005... Sexual harassment is a problem that has received a great deal of attention from both feminist activists and feminist scholars, who have explained at great length why it is morally problematic, how it harms women, and what should be done to...

Deformed desires and informed desire tests.
September 22, 2005... Sandra Bartky has described repressive satisfactions, or, deformed desires, as those that fasten us to the established order of domination, for the same system which produces false needs also controls the conditions under...

Liberalism, adaptive preferences, and gender equality.
September 22, 2005... There is a tension between feminism and liberalism. Feminism is committed to bringing about an end to gender hierarchy, including the gendered division of labor. Liberalism is committed to respecting voluntary choice. Yet much of the current...

Reasons, explanation, and Saramago's bell.
September 22, 2005... Philosophers often argue for an account by showing that it better explains what we do in practice than rival accounts. Philosophers of science, for example, are generally knowledgeable about, even trained in, scientific practice. Thus, their...

Missionary positions.(liberal feminism)
September 22, 2005... Philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it. --Karl Marx The hearts of innumerable men and women responded with idealistic fervor to [Cecil Rhodes's] clarion, because it went...

Consequentialism and feminist ethics.
September 22, 2005... Feminist ethicists are at the forefront in criticizing traditional ethical theories for their commitment to impartiality and, in the case of consequentialism, the resulting problem of the demanding nature of these impartial norms. Traditional...

Who's there? Selfhood, self-regard, and social relations.
September 22, 2005... Feminist philosophers began questioning the disembedded, disembodied self over two decades ago, and they have been amplifying and strengthening their critique ever since. This trenchant line of argument notwithstanding, some contemporary...

Beyond Epistemology: A Pragmatist Approach to Feminist Science Studies.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Beyond Epistemology: A Pragmatist Approach to Feminist Science Studies. SHARYN CLOUGH. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003. In this concise and challenging monograph, Sharyn Clough defends a nonrepresentational pragmatist approach to...

Moral Contexts.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Moral Contexts. MARGARET URBAN WALKER. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003. Margaret Walker's latest book, a collection of essays on ethics that were written over roughly the past fifteen years, is organized to form an argument that,...

Relational Remembering: Rethinking the Memory Wars.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Relational Remembering: Rethinking the Memory Wars. By SUE CAMPBELL. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. In Relational Remembering, Sue Campbell studies the effect of a backlash movement on women, their status, and their consciousness....

Healing Identities: Black Feminist Thought and the Politics of Groups.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Healing Identities: Black Feminist Thought and the Politics of Groups. CYNTHIA BURACK. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2004. In Healing Identities, Cynthia Burack brings together the tools of psychoanalysis and political theory with...

On the morality of not crossing picket lines.(MUSINGS)
September 22, 2005... In an e-mail sent to some American Philosophical Association members on 8 March 2005, the Executive Committee (EC) of the APA's Pacific Division explained why they had decided not to move the Division's annual meeting out of the Westin St....

Which side are you on, APA?(American Philosophical Association annual divisional meeting )
September 22, 2005... The American Philosophical Association recently held one of its annual divisional meetings in a hotel in San Francisco whose workers had voted for a strike, were on strike call, and had called for a public boycott of the hotel. Both the APA...

Books received.(Bibliography)
September 22, 2005... Apostoles, Francisca de los. 2005. The inquisition of Francisca: A sixteenth-century visionary on trial. Ed. and trans. by Gillian T. W. Ahlgren. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Banerjee, Sikata. 2005. Make me a man! Masculinity,...