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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... rationality will be one reserved primarily for men , 1 with grudging entrance to those few women who are capable of transcending their femininity . Feminist philosophers have begun to look critically at the canonized texts of philosophy ...
... rationality will be one reserved primarily for men , 1 with grudging entrance to those few women who are capable of transcending their femininity . Feminist philosophers have begun to look critically at the canonized texts of philosophy ...
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... rational thought , but he has excluded women from rational thought in the same process , effectively treating them as mere bodies , that is , for him , machines " ( 1995 , 2 ) . Gaukroger considers this feminist critique to rest on a ...
... rational thought , but he has excluded women from rational thought in the same process , effectively treating them as mere bodies , that is , for him , machines " ( 1995 , 2 ) . Gaukroger considers this feminist critique to rest on a ...
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... rationality or as an " assault on reason " -creating the image of Lorena Bobbit - like viragos , heading at the canon with their sharpened steak knives.3 But in fact , with few exceptions , the point of feminist criticism has been to ...
... rationality or as an " assault on reason " -creating the image of Lorena Bobbit - like viragos , heading at the canon with their sharpened steak knives.3 But in fact , with few exceptions , the point of feminist criticism has been to ...
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... rational capacities was insistently egalitarian ( and so , apparently , were his actual relations with female friends and correspondents ) yet there is no evidence that he understood this egalitarianism to have " gender " implications ...
... rational capacities was insistently egalitarian ( and so , apparently , were his actual relations with female friends and correspondents ) yet there is no evidence that he understood this egalitarianism to have " gender " implications ...
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... rationality , mo- rality , selfhood are not the generic forms they usually present themselves as but - when examined closely - have gender , racial , and class features ( as well as features specific to historical era ) . A common way ...
... rationality , mo- rality , selfhood are not the generic forms they usually present themselves as but - when examined closely - have gender , racial , and class features ( as well as features specific to historical era ) . A common way ...
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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