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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... Women 141 8 Radical Doubt and the Liberation of Women 169 Ruth Perry 9 Descartes's Mood : The Question of Feminism in the Correspondence with Elisabeth 190 Thomas E. Wartenberg 10 Cartesian Women 213 Erica Harth 11 Women Cartesians ...
... Women 141 8 Radical Doubt and the Liberation of Women 169 Ruth Perry 9 Descartes's Mood : The Question of Feminism in the Correspondence with Elisabeth 190 Thomas E. Wartenberg 10 Cartesian Women 213 Erica Harth 11 Women Cartesians ...
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... women are omitted from the canons of philosophy , these texts inscribe the nature of woman . Sometimes the philosopher speaks directly about woman , delineating her proper role , her abilities and inabilities , her desires . Other times ...
... women are omitted from the canons of philosophy , these texts inscribe the nature of woman . Sometimes the philosopher speaks directly about woman , delineating her proper role , her abilities and inabilities , her desires . Other times ...
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... women can offer an accurate representation of the history of the discipline , as women have been philosophers since the ancient period.2 I share with many feminist philosophers and other philosophers writ- ing from the margins of ...
... women can offer an accurate representation of the history of the discipline , as women have been philosophers since the ancient period.2 I share with many feminist philosophers and other philosophers writ- ing from the margins of ...
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... women's philosophical history , we must also begin to analyze the impact of gender ideologies upon the process of ... Women Philosophers ( Boston : M. Nijoff , 1987 ) , attests to this presence of women . 3. Michael Bérubé , Marginal ...
... women's philosophical history , we must also begin to analyze the impact of gender ideologies upon the process of ... Women Philosophers ( Boston : M. Nijoff , 1987 ) , attests to this presence of women . 3. Michael Bérubé , Marginal ...
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... Women , " is reprinted with permission of the publisher from Yale French Studies 80 ( 1991 ) : 146–64 . Copyright © 1991 Yale French Studies . Leslie Heywood , " When Descartes Met the Fitness Babe : Academic Cartesianism and the Late ...
... Women , " is reprinted with permission of the publisher from Yale French Studies 80 ( 1991 ) : 146–64 . Copyright © 1991 Yale French Studies . Leslie Heywood , " When Descartes Met the Fitness Babe : Academic Cartesianism and the Late ...
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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