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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... social construction of knowledge or reevaluating the role of emotions in knowing rarely acknowledge their debt to the feminist " canon - bashers . " ) The story of Descartes's mechanical daughter does titillate a feminist imagination ...
... social construction of knowledge or reevaluating the role of emotions in knowing rarely acknowledge their debt to the feminist " canon - bashers . " ) The story of Descartes's mechanical daughter does titillate a feminist imagination ...
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... social concerns of their times , have found very different elements swirling in the void . Enlightenment writers , for example , employed Descartes's view of reason in the service of the cause of female equality . But in our own time ...
... social concerns of their times , have found very different elements swirling in the void . Enlightenment writers , for example , employed Descartes's view of reason in the service of the cause of female equality . But in our own time ...
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... social constructions , Cartesian ontology has once again be- come a focus of intellectual examination - this time not on its own terms , but as historically , culturally , politically situated within a particu- lar conception of “ man ...
... social constructions , Cartesian ontology has once again be- come a focus of intellectual examination - this time not on its own terms , but as historically , culturally , politically situated within a particu- lar conception of “ man ...
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... social and educational opportunities may have expanded for women ) . Like Stern's , my piece , a pastiche of sections culled from The Flight to Objectivity , applies psychological categories such as maternal loss and separation anxiety ...
... social and educational opportunities may have expanded for women ) . Like Stern's , my piece , a pastiche of sections culled from The Flight to Objectivity , applies psychological categories such as maternal loss and separation anxiety ...
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... social consequence of such a view was the blossoming of philosophical correspondences between intel- lectual men and women of the seventeenth century , correspondences that provided women with possibilities for intellectual ...
... social consequence of such a view was the blossoming of philosophical correspondences between intel- lectual men and women of the seventeenth century , correspondences that provided women with possibilities for intellectual ...
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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