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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... Feminine Philosophy , " and Historical Exclusion 232 Eileen O'Neill Part Four : Cartesian Man 12 When Descartes Met the Fitness Babe : Academic Cartesianism and the Late Twentieth - Century Cult of the Body 261 Leslie Heywood 13 ...
... Feminine Philosophy , " and Historical Exclusion 232 Eileen O'Neill Part Four : Cartesian Man 12 When Descartes Met the Fitness Babe : Academic Cartesianism and the Late Twentieth - Century Cult of the Body 261 Leslie Heywood 13 ...
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... feminine - the body , the emo- tions , the passions — then the realm of rationality will be one reserved primarily for men , 1 with grudging entrance to those few women who are capable of transcending their femininity . Feminist ...
... feminine - the body , the emo- tions , the passions — then the realm of rationality will be one reserved primarily for men , 1 with grudging entrance to those few women who are capable of transcending their femininity . Feminist ...
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... feminine is constructed within the texts of philosophy . A question we must keep in front of us during this process of re - reading is whether a philosopher's socially inherited prejudices concerning woman's nature and role are ...
... feminine is constructed within the texts of philosophy . A question we must keep in front of us during this process of re - reading is whether a philosopher's socially inherited prejudices concerning woman's nature and role are ...
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... feminine . Understanding this type of argument and how it differs from other , perhaps more familiar approaches to gender bias is crucial to an accurate reading of Stern's piece , and of several other pieces in this volume : my own ...
... feminine . Understanding this type of argument and how it differs from other , perhaps more familiar approaches to gender bias is crucial to an accurate reading of Stern's piece , and of several other pieces in this volume : my own ...
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... femininity " with culturally coded qualities ( rather than sexually differentiated groups of people ) and should not be understood as making empirical generalizations about how men and women think . In terms of currently available ...
... femininity " with culturally coded qualities ( rather than sexually differentiated groups of people ) and should not be understood as making empirical generalizations about how men and women think . In terms of currently available ...
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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