Hypatia Reborn

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.

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