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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... female sex of the mechanical doll was an incidental detail ; they were taking aim at a conception of human being drained of immortal soul , not the repression or exclusion of women or of " the femi- nine . " The fact that the Francine ...
... female sex of the mechanical doll was an incidental detail ; they were taking aim at a conception of human being drained of immortal soul , not the repression or exclusion of women or of " the femi- nine . " The fact that the Francine ...
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... female friends and correspondents ) yet there is no evidence that he understood this egalitarianism to have " gender " implications . But this manifest void has been filled , historically , with arguments testifying to the presence and ...
... female friends and correspondents ) yet there is no evidence that he understood this egalitarianism to have " gender " implications . But this manifest void has been filled , historically , with arguments testifying to the presence and ...
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... female , is in retreat from those aspects of experience culturally associated with the maternal and the feminine . Understanding this type of argument and how it differs from other , perhaps more familiar approaches to gender bias is ...
... female , is in retreat from those aspects of experience culturally associated with the maternal and the feminine . Understanding this type of argument and how it differs from other , perhaps more familiar approaches to gender bias is ...
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... female virtue and male vice , to being condemned as racist , ethnocentric and " essential- ist . " This is not the place to sort out the justice and injustice of these responses . My point here is that whatever one's evaluation of this ...
... female virtue and male vice , to being condemned as racist , ethnocentric and " essential- ist . " This is not the place to sort out the justice and injustice of these responses . My point here is that whatever one's evaluation of this ...
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... female , but also along racial and class lines . Unreason has been associated with Africa ( e.g. , in Hegel , who viewed the African as living in a state of undeveloped consciousness , immersed in instinctual nature ) and linked with ...
... female , but also along racial and class lines . Unreason has been associated with Africa ( e.g. , in Hegel , who viewed the African as living in a state of undeveloped consciousness , immersed in instinctual nature ) and linked with ...
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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