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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... things , includ- ing Enlightenment ideals - Cartesian reason has been challenged as co- vertly masculinist , and subtly excluding of " women's way of knowing . " It is not only for feminist writers that Descartes has presented different ...
... things , includ- ing Enlightenment ideals - Cartesian reason has been challenged as co- vertly masculinist , and subtly excluding of " women's way of knowing . " It is not only for feminist writers that Descartes has presented different ...
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... are encouraged ( or constrained ) to develop whatever ( if any ) " differences " they exhibit . The foregoing , however , makes things sound much more straightfor- ward then they are , for cultures and their symbolic Introduction 9.
... are encouraged ( or constrained ) to develop whatever ( if any ) " differences " they exhibit . The foregoing , however , makes things sound much more straightfor- ward then they are , for cultures and their symbolic Introduction 9.
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... things womanly , soft , feminine . Although Descartes is charged by feminists with promoting a model of disembodied thought , the Meditations , Winders argues , are anything but abstract and impersonal , extending a vivid and dramatic ...
... things womanly , soft , feminine . Although Descartes is charged by feminists with promoting a model of disembodied thought , the Meditations , Winders argues , are anything but abstract and impersonal , extending a vivid and dramatic ...
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... thing " have been useful allies . The notion that women are subject to irrationalities ( and even immoralities ) connected to their biology and physiology have been with us since before Aristotle and have been a tremendous obstacle to ...
... thing " have been useful allies . The notion that women are subject to irrationalities ( and even immoralities ) connected to their biology and physiology have been with us since before Aristotle and have been a tremendous obstacle to ...
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... things by virtue of their concrete , embodied situation as women that men ( at least , those men who are deluded into believing , as de Beauvoir put it , that they stand in " direct and normal connection with the world " ) cannot . The ...
... things by virtue of their concrete , embodied situation as women that men ( at least , those men who are deluded into believing , as de Beauvoir put it , that they stand in " direct and normal connection with the world " ) cannot . 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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