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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... scientific and that she had been con- ceived as part of a experiment . ( The evidence given was that Descartes was working on his treatise on the formation of the fetus in 1634 , the year she was conceived ! ) In fact the very opposite ...
... scientific and that she had been con- ceived as part of a experiment . ( The evidence given was that Descartes was working on his treatise on the formation of the fetus in 1634 , the year she was conceived ! ) In fact the very opposite ...
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... scientific culture changed dra- matically in the seventeenth century ; it became more " phallocentric " ( even as social and educational opportunities may have expanded for women ) . Like Stern's , my piece , a pastiche of sections ...
... scientific culture changed dra- matically in the seventeenth century ; it became more " phallocentric " ( even as social and educational opportunities may have expanded for women ) . Like Stern's , my piece , a pastiche of sections ...
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... scientific , Cartesian mentality . Des- cartes may have helped to " masculinize " thought , but his work also contained the seeds of a cultural " return of the feminine . " Paliyenko reminds us , however , that an alliance with " the ...
... scientific , Cartesian mentality . Des- cartes may have helped to " masculinize " thought , but his work also contained the seeds of a cultural " return of the feminine . " Paliyenko reminds us , however , that an alliance with " the ...
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... Scientific Revolutions had only just been published , academic feminism did not exist , and the disciplines were chugging along , blithely dispensing their racial and gender biases in the name of “ methodology , ” " reality , " " truth ...
... Scientific Revolutions had only just been published , academic feminism did not exist , and the disciplines were chugging along , blithely dispensing their racial and gender biases in the name of “ methodology , ” " reality , " " truth ...
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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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