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This issue ofHypatia, the first of our inaugural volume as an independent journal, reflects the breadth and depth of feminist philosophy. The articles range from discussions of the women philosophers in ancient Greece to the nature/nurture distinction in contemporary science. The authors work within traditions ranging from existentialism to analytic philosophy of language. Their subjects of interest vary from sexist humor to romantic love; from the concept of self‐respect to the role of Antigone as a model for feminists. What they share is a feminst commitment to understanding and ending the sexist oppression of women, and a sense of the relevance of philosophy to that tas

ISSN:0887-5367    

DOI:10.1111/j.1527-2001.1986.tb00519.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

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I would like to thank Donna Haraway, Barrie Thome, Daniel Scripture and, especially, Peter Euben for their many helpful comments and suggestions on various drafts of this article. I would also like to thank Thelma Francis for her generous support and encouragement.

ISSN:0887-5367    

DOI:10.1111/j.1527-2001.1986.tb00520.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

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This paper argues that there were women involved with philosophy on a fairly constant basis throughout Greek antiquity. It does so by tracing the lives and where extant the writings of these women. However, since the sources, both ancient and modern, from which we derive our knowledge about these women are so sexist and easily distort our view of these women and their accomplishments, the paper also discusses the manner in which their histories come down to us as well as the histories themselves. It discusses in detail the following women: the Pythagorean women philosophers of the 6th and 5th centuries B.C., Aspasia and Diotima of the 5th century B.C., Arete, Hipparchia, Pamphile and the women Epicureans—all from the 4th century B.C. the five logician daughters of a famous Stoic philosopher of the 3rd century B.C., and finally Hypatia who lived in the 4th century A.

ISSN:0887-5367    

DOI:10.1111/j.1527-2001.1986.tb00521.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

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In this paper I am concerned with two questions: What is sexist humor? and what is wrong with it? To answer the first question, I briefly develop a theory of humor and then characterizesexisthumor as humor in which sexist beliefs (attitudes/norms) are presupposed and are necessary to the fun.Concerning the second question, I criticize a common sort of argument that is supposed to explain why sexist humor is offensive: although the argument explains why sexist humorfeelsoffensive, it does not place responsibility for the offense in the humorist or audience that enjoys sexist humor. I develop an alternate account of the offense in sexist humor that places responsibility for offense in precisely those quarters.

ISSN:0887-5367    

DOI:10.1111/j.1527-2001.1986.tb00522.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

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Recent liberal moral and political philosophy has placed great emphasis on the good of self‐respect. But it is not always evident what is involved in self‐respect, nor is it evident how societies can promote it. Assuming that self‐respect is highly desirable, I begin by considering how people can live in a self‐respecting fashion, and I argue that autonomous envisaging and fulfillment of one's own life plans is necessary for self‐respect. I next turn to the question of how societal implementation of rights may affect self‐respect, and I urge that discretionary rights, which allow people to decline the benefits they confer, support self‐respect more effectively than mandatory rights, which forbid people to refuse the benefits they confer. I conclude by examining the import of these contentions for feminist theory. I believe that my arguments are of particular concern to women because women have traditionally been victimized by a mandatory right to play a distinctively “feminine” role which has undermined t

ISSN:0887-5367    

DOI:10.1111/j.1527-2001.1986.tb00523.x

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年代:1986

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Simone de Beauvoir inThe Second Sexidentifies the philosophical vantage point from which she will survey the situation of women as existentialist. The ways in which she must later compromise that committment to theory in order to remain true to her feminist insights foreshadow recent developments in feminist ethics and epistemology.

ISSN:0887-5367    

DOI:10.1111/j.1527-2001.1986.tb00524.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

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I examine Beauvoir's moral assessment of Romantic Love inThe Second Sex.I first set out Beauvoir's central philosophical assumptions concerning the nature and situations of women, setting the framework for her analysis of the intersubjective dynamic which constitutes the phenomenology of romantic loving. In this process four double‐bind paradoxes are generated which can lead, ultimately, to servility in the woman who loves.In a separate analysis, I ask whether it is wrong for a woman to aspire to and/or choose this form of servitude. I distinguish two kinds of considerations: (1) those having to do with the intrinsic moral nature of the commitment or decision, and (2) those based on considerations of harm: first, to the woman who loves; second, to the loved Other; third to the nature of the relationship; and fourth, to society in genera

ISSN:0887-5367    

DOI:10.1111/j.1527-2001.1986.tb00525.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

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Marilyn Frye's first book,The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory, presents nine philosophical lectures: four on women's subordination, four on resistance and rebellion, one on revolution. Its approach combines a lesbian perspective with analytical philosophy of language. The major contributions of the book are its analysis of oppression, highly suggestive discussions of the roles ofattentionin knowledge and ignorance and in arrogance and love, a defense of political separatism not based on female supremacism, and a development of the idea of lesbian epistemology. Its proposal for resisting White racism will be controversial. Its treatment of gay rights is not balanced by an acknowledgement that drag queens, like “totaled women,” are products of oppression, not simply of intolerance. The most philosophically problematic aspect of the book is its analysis of coercion and of the roles of coercion in women's subordination. This creates an unresolved tension with the positive message of the second half of the book. Despite this difficulty, these essays are an outstanding contribution to contemporary feminist the

ISSN:0887-5367    

DOI:10.1111/j.1527-2001.1986.tb00526.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

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Nancy Tuana holds that the nature/nurture dichotomy does not accurately represent the world and hence that a whole series of assumptions about human nature is mistaken. She rejects both biological determinism and alternative interactionist views. I argue that although her arguments and political concerns do rule out any kind of simple biological determinism, they do not show that the alternative interactionist view is untenable: in fact, she uses the distinction in her attempt to demolish it. 1 argue that the assumption that “nature” implies fixity is the source of difficulties here, not the dichotomy its

ISSN:0887-5367    

DOI:10.1111/j.1527-2001.1986.tb00527.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

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This essay is a response to the comments and critique of Laura Pur‐dy to my earlier paper “Re‐Fusing Nature/Nurture” (1983, 621–632). In it I re‐emphasize that the traditional nature/nurture dichotomy is based upon an unacceptable ontology and briefly note the type of metaphysic that would serve as a more approp

ISSN:0887-5367    

DOI:10.1111/j.1527-2001.1986.tb00528.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

数据来源: WILEY