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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... Michael Bérubé , Marginal Forces / Cultural Centers : Tolson , Pynchon , and the Politics of the Canon ( Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1992 ) , 4–5 . Acknowledgments When Nancy Tuana first invited me to edit this Preface ix.
... Michael Bérubé , Marginal Forces / Cultural Centers : Tolson , Pynchon , and the Politics of the Canon ( Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1992 ) , 4–5 . Acknowledgments When Nancy Tuana first invited me to edit this Preface ix.
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... political theory , to being corralled to reinforce nineteenth - century notions of 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 ...
... political theory , to being corralled to reinforce nineteenth - century notions of 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 ...
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... politics of different cultural ( racial , ethnic , religious ) traditions and historical periods . Were there " gynocen- tric ” symbolic systems that preceded the rise of patriarchy in Europe ? Are Native American cultures more ...
... politics of different cultural ( racial , ethnic , religious ) traditions and historical periods . Were there " gynocen- tric ” symbolic systems that preceded the rise of patriarchy in Europe ? Are Native American cultures more ...
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... politics , higher education , big business ) must disassociate themselves from . Moreover , to the degree that Descartes was wrong — that is , if the life of the body is always relevant to what is thinkable and cannot be transcended ...
... politics , higher education , big business ) must disassociate themselves from . Moreover , to the degree that Descartes was wrong — that is , if the life of the body is always relevant to what is thinkable and cannot be transcended ...
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... political ) significance of her remarks . The next two chapters in this section are by two authors who , with Ruth ... politics to " bias " that is inaccurate with regard to the leanings of most philosophical ideals . Some philosophers ...
... political ) significance of her remarks . The next two chapters in this section are by two authors who , with Ruth ... politics to " bias " that is inaccurate with regard to the leanings of most philosophical ideals . Some philosophers ...
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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