Feminist Interpretations of René Descartes

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Susan Bordo
Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999 - Feminist theory - 348 pages
Feministische interpretatie van het werk van René Descartes. Aandacht voor 'The passions of the Soul', Méditations, de Cartesiaanse mens, zijn visie op vrouwen. Bevat de volgende bijdragen: Descartes / Karl Stern; Selections from 'The flight to objectivity' / Susan Bordo; Reason as attainment / Genevieve Lloyd; Descartes's "Gender" / Stanley Clarke; Wonder: a reading of Descartes, 'The passions of the soul' / Luce Irigaray; Writing like a man : Descartes, science, and madness / James A. Winders; Postmodern turns against the Cartesian subject: Descartes's "I", Lacan's other / Adrianna M. Paliyenko; Radical doubt and the liberation of women / Ruth Perry; Descartes's mood: the question of feminism in the correspondence with Elisabeth / Thomas E. Wartenberg; Cartesian women / Erica Harth; Women cartesians, "feminine philosophy", and historical exclusion / Eileen O'Neill; When Descartes met the fitness babe: academic Cartesianism and the late twentieth-century cult of the body / Leslie Heywood; Rehabilitating the "I" / Susan Bordo and Mario Moussa; Cartesian autobiography/post-Cartesian testimonials / Mario Sáenz.

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Introduction
1
Descartes
29
Selections from The Flight to Objectivity
48
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Susan Bordo is the Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities at the University of Kentucky and is the author of several books, including Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body (1993) and Twilight Zones: The Hidden Life of Cultural Images from Plato to O. J. (1997).

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