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72Plato and SexPolity. 2010.What does the study of Plato’s dialogues tell us about the modern meaning of ‘sex’? How can recent developments in the philosophy of sex and gender help us read these ancient texts anew? _Plato and Sex _addresses these questions for the first time. Each chapter demonstrates how the modern reception of Plato’s works Ð in both mainstream and feminist philosophy and psychoanalytical theory Ð has presupposed a ‘natural-biological’ conception of what sex might mean. Through a critical comparison betw…Read more
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100Levinas, feminism and the feminineIn Robert Bernasconi & Simon Critchley (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Levinas, Cambridge University Press. pp. 139-160. 2002.This is a critical evaluation of the feminist philosophical literature on the work of Emmanuel Levinas. It brought to a close Sandford's research on Levinas, the main outcome of which was her "The Metaphysics of Love : Levinas and Transcendence"
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353Feminism against'the feminine'Radical Philosophy 105 6-14. 2001.Whilst the distinction between French and Anglo-American feminism was always rather dubious two specific linguistic differences between French and English have nevertheless determined two streams of feminist thought, and complicated the relation between them. Since the 1960s, English-language feminisms, in so far as they are distinctive, have centrally either presupposed or explicitly theorized the category of gender, for which there is no linguistic equivalent in French. At the same time, much …Read more
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212Writing as a man: Levinas and the phenomenology of ErosRadical Philosophy 87 6-17. 1998.In the philosophical works of Emmanuel Levinasʼs early career, it is in a phenomenology of Eros that he claims to have uncovered the site of what he calls ʻtranscendenceʼ. This is no small claim. According to the argument of the later Totality and Infinity (1961), the history of Western philosophy is to be thought as the history of the ʻphilosophy of the sameʼ. Within this polemical generalization almost the whole of Western philosophy is characterized as a totalizing discourse which aims to redu…Read more
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15Book Review of: African-American philosophers: 17 conversations by George Yancy (ed.) (review)Radical Philosophy 95 55-57. 1999.
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17Book Review of:'Emmanuel Levinas: the genealogy of ethics' by John Llewelyn (review)Radical Philosophy 80. 1996.
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25"Sex"In Emily Apter, Jacques Lezra, Barbara Cassin & Michael Wood (eds.), A Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon, Princeton University Press. 2014.
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43How to read BeauvoirGranta. 2006.Written for an introductory series, this book contains the outcome of research into the disputed place of Beauvoir's work within the French philosophical tradition, and the philosophical significance of various of her particular works.
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91Contingent ontologies: sex, gender and'woman'in Simone de Beauvoir and Judith ButlerRadical Philosophy 97 18-29. 1999.
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61The Metaphysics of Love: Gender and Transcendence in LevinasAthlone Press. 2000.In The Metaphysics of Love, however, Stella Sandford argues that an over-emphasis on ethics in the reception of Levinas's thought has concealed the basis and ...
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20Book Review of: Beyond sex and gender by Wendy Cealey Harrison and John Hood-Williams (review)Radical Philosophy 118 36-38. 2003.
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Abstract Sex: Philosophy, Bio-technology and the Mutations of Desire; The Sex Appeal of the Inorganic: Philosophies of Desire in the Modern World (review)Radical Philosophy 127. 2004.
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79Freud, Bion and Kant : epistemology and anthropology in The interpretation of dreamsInternational Journal of Psychoanalysis 98 (1): 91-110. 2017.This interdisciplinary article takes a philosophical approach to The Interpretation of Dreams, connecting Freud to one of the few philosophers with whom he sometimes identified - Immanuel Kant. It aims to show that Freud's theory of dreams has more in common with Bion's later thoughts on dreaming than is usually recognized. Distinguishing, via a discussion of Kant, between the conflicting 'epistemological' and 'anthropological' aspects of The Interpretation of Dreams, it shows that one specific …Read more
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19This chapter examines the relationship between feminist theory and critical theory in Gillian Howie’s Between Feminism and Materialism, and the relation of both to philosophy. The chapter suggests that the relation between feminist theory and critical theory is a contradictory one in which the partners are at the same time close and yet estranged. It examines how Howie characterises this state of affairs and affirms her aim of 'putting Critical Theory to work for feminist theory’, explaining how…Read more
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13Book Review of: Liberation and purity: race, new religious movements and the ethics of postmodernity by Chetan Bhatt (review)Radical Philosophy 95 57-58. 1999.
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42The dream is a fragment : Freud, transdisciplinarity and early German RomanticismRadical Philosophy 198 (198): 25-34. 2016.
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36Book ReviewKant's Organicism: Epigenesis and the Development of Critical PhilosophyBy Jennifer Mensch. Chicago and London : University of Chicago Press, pp. xi +246 ;isbn-13: 978-0-226-021980-0 (review)Critical Philosophy of Race 3 (1): 167-170. 2015.
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238Sex: a transdisciplinary concept. From structure to rhizome: transdisciplinarity in French thought (1)Radical Philosophy 165 23-30. 2011.What is sex? Some feminists have harboured suspicions about this form of question, given its philosophical (or ‘metaphysical’1) pedigree. But philosophy no longer has the disciplinary monopoly on it. Indeed, with regard to sex, the more interesting task today is to pose and to attempt to answer the question from within a transdisciplinary problematic. For the question requires a theoretical response capable of recognizing that it concerns a cultural and political (and therefore neither …Read more
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Conference Report: Going Australian: Reconfiguring Feminism and Philosophy, 6–8 February 1998, University of Warwick, UK (review)Radical Philosophy 90. 1998.