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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... suggests a modern - day analogue to such eighteenth - century harangues in contem- porary feminist critiques of Cartesian dualism . These critiques , he notes , add a new layer of symbolic gender meaning to the story of Descartes and ...
... suggests a modern - day analogue to such eighteenth - century harangues in contem- porary feminist critiques of Cartesian dualism . These critiques , he notes , add a new layer of symbolic gender meaning to the story of Descartes and ...
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... suggest that women think differently by virtue of being women . It is to describe a cultural discourse as strongly biased in favor of qualities identified with or associated with ideas about men , quali- ties that women are required to ...
... suggest that women think differently by virtue of being women . It is to describe a cultural discourse as strongly biased in favor of qualities identified with or associated with ideas about men , quali- ties that women are required to ...
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... suggests , not only present a view of reason that is far more inclusive than is commonly assumed by feminist critics , but also contain the resources for a theory of gender that is com- patible with contemporary feminist accounts ...
... suggests , not only present a view of reason that is far more inclusive than is commonly assumed by feminist critics , but also contain the resources for a theory of gender that is com- patible with contemporary feminist accounts ...
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Susan Bordo. Perry argues that such notions did an incalculable service to women by suggesting that serious philosophizing did not require a classical educa- tion ( or indeed any education at all ) , but could be undertaken whatever ...
Susan Bordo. Perry argues that such notions did an incalculable service to women by suggesting that serious philosophizing did not require a classical educa- tion ( or indeed any education at all ) , but could be undertaken whatever ...
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... suggests that Elizabeth's complaints , although they are about the real constraints on her opportunities to philosophize , nonetheless contain an inchoate philosophical critique — of Descartes's failure to adequately con- textualize the ...
... suggests that Elizabeth's complaints , although they are about the real constraints on her opportunities to philosophize , nonetheless contain an inchoate philosophical critique — of Descartes's failure to adequately con- textualize the ...
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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