Feminist Interpretations of RenŽ DescartesSusan Bordo Contributors are Susan Bordo, Stanley Clarke, Erica Harth, Leslie Heywood, Luce Irigaray, Genevieve Lloyd, Mario Moussa, Eileen O'Neill, Adrianna Paliyenko, Ruth Perry, Mario S&áenz, Karl Stern, Thomas Wartenberg, and James Winders. |
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... equality . But in our own time — more suspicious than the seventeenth century was of the philosophical " surface " of things , includ- ing Enlightenment ideals - Cartesian reason has been challenged as co- vertly masculinist , and ...
... equality . But in our own time — more suspicious than the seventeenth century was of the philosophical " surface " of things , includ- ing Enlightenment ideals - Cartesian reason has been challenged as co- vertly masculinist , and ...
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... equality . We open the section with a selection from Ruth Perry's " Radical Doubt and the Liberation of Women , " which examines the liberatory impact of Cartesian thought and the " new philosophy " on intellectual opportunities for the ...
... equality . We open the section with a selection from Ruth Perry's " Radical Doubt and the Liberation of Women , " which examines the liberatory impact of Cartesian thought and the " new philosophy " on intellectual opportunities for the ...
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... equality for women . Similar notions abound about the nature of Africans , as noted earlier . Severing oneself ( or one's group ) from such associations has sometimes seemed best served by insisting on the freedom of the intellect to ...
... equality for women . Similar notions abound about the nature of Africans , as noted earlier . Severing oneself ( or one's group ) from such associations has sometimes seemed best served by insisting on the freedom of the intellect to ...
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Contents
Descartes Karl Stern | 29 |
Selections from The Flight to Objectivity Susan Bordo | 48 |
Reason as Attainment Genevieve Lloyd | 70 |
Descartess Gender Stanley Clarke | 82 |
Gender and Other Trouble in the Meditations | 103 |
Wonder A Reading of Descartes The Passions of the Soul Luce Irigaray | 105 |
Writing Like a Man? Descartes Science and Madness James A Winders | 114 |
Postmodern Turns Against the Cartesian Subject Descartess I Lacans Other Adrianna M Paliyenko | 141 |
Cartesian Women Erica Harth | 213 |
Women Cartesians Feminine Philosophy and Historical Exclusion Eileen ONeill | 232 |
Cartesian Man | 259 |
When Descartes Met the Fitness Babe Academic Cartesianism and the Late TwentiethCentury Cult of the Body Leslie Heyivood | 261 |
Rehabilitating the I Susan Bordo and Mario Moussa | 280 |
Cartesian AutobiographyPostCartesian Testimonials Mario Saenz | 305 |
Select Bibliography on Descartes Cartesianism and Gender | 328 |
Contributors | 332 |
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