Synopses & Reviews
The first issues of the journal Hypatia, published from 1983 through 1985, truly heralded the rebirth of a feminist philosophy. Women in philosophy had been silenced since the days of the fourth-century Alexandrian woman philosopher and mathematician, Hypatia. With the establishment of the journal by the Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP), feminist issues and philosophy were legitimized. The first three issues of the journal were actually published as special issues of Women's Studies International Forum. From this unique incubational arrangement, the journal has grown to be a successful independent voice for feminist philosophical concerns. In response to demand, essays from those early, now out-of-print issues are being published in book form as a testament to the rebirth of feminist philosophy.
Table of Contents
FORWORD
Joyce Trebilcot
PREFACE BY FOUN DING EDITOR
Azizah Y. al-Hibri
Part I Feminist Philosophy: Analysis and Recovery
Introduction: Donna Serniak
On the War Path and Beyond
Hegel, Freud and Feminist Theory
Jo-Ann Pilardi
Have We Got a Theory for You!
Femiist Theory, Cultural Imperialism and the Demand for the Woman's Voice
Maria C. Lugones and Elizabeth V. Spelman
Plato, Irony and Equality
Janet Farrell Smith
How Ordinary (Sexist) Discourse Resists Radical (Feminist) Critique
Terry R. Winant
Re-fusing Nature/Nurture
Nancy Tuana
Masculinity as Ideology in Political Theory
Hobbesian Man Considered
Christine Di Stefano
Part II Affections of Feminism
Introduction
Ruth M. Schwartz
Feminine Masochism and the Politics of Personal Transformation
Sandra Lee Bartky
The Affirmative Action Debate and Conflicting Conceptions of Individuality
Mary E. Hawkesworth
Motherhood, Feminism and Identity
Margaret A. Simons
Women and Lying
A Pragmatic and Semantic Analysis of Telling It Slant
Gillian Michell
Rereading Freud on Femininity or Why Not Womb Envy?
Eva Feder Kittay
Love, Knowledge and Transformation
Caroline Whitbeck
Part III Beauvoir and Feminist Philosophy
Introduction
Margaret A. Simons
Humanism, Gynocentrism and Feminist Politics
Iris Marion Young
Reproduction as Male Ideology
Alison M. Jaggar and William L. McBride
Sexual Embodiment
Beauvoir and French Feminism (ecriture feminine)
Arleen B. Dallery
Lesbian Identity
Beauvoir and History
Ann Ferguson
Lesbian Attitudes and The Second Sex
Claudia Card
History and Responsibility
Marilyn Frye
Second Sex: Second Thoughts
Charlene Haddock Seigfried
Interpretation and Retrieval
Rereading Beauvoir
Linda Singer
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX