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13RésuméJe soutiens que la prédiction faite en 1915 par Winthrop Pickard Bell, selon laquelle le Canada deviendrait une nation, était exacte, et ce, en examinant deux personnalités publiques canadiennes. Premièrement, j’examine l’analyse de Bell selon laquelle chaque nation possède sa propre culture. Deuxièmement, j’analyse l’explication de Roméo Dallaire selon laquelle ses actions au Rwanda ont été guidées par ses origines canadiennes. Troisièmement, je me tourne vers Harold R. Johnson, qui souti…Read more
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Gender Identity Without Gender PrescriptionsSymposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 2 (2): 223-235. 1998.The postmodern rejection of essentialism does not mean that feminist theorists must abandon all categorizations of women. Indeed, while it is important to deconstruct identities and highlight the differences among women, we need to arrive at some notion of gender identity for political purposes. In paying careful attention to the distinction between nominal essences and real essences, the author shows that the category of women can be maintained without resorting to the problems of traditional e…Read more
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33"Woman" in the Plural: Negotiating Sameness and Difference in Feminist TheoryIn James Olthuis & Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion (eds.), Towards an Ethics of Community: Negotiations of Difference in a Pluralist Society, Wilfrid Laurier Press. pp. 74-90. 2006.
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29Gender Identity without Gender PrescriptionsThe Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 20 104-111. 1998.The feminist philosopher Susan Bordo suggests that the dilemma of twentieth-century feminism is the tension between a gender identity that both mobilizes a liberatory politics on behalf of women and that results in gender prescriptions which excludes many women. This tension seems especially acute in feminist debates about essentialism/deconstructionism. Concentrating on the shared sex of women may run the risk of embracing an essentialism that ignores the differences among women, whereas emphas…Read more
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59Philosophy as Responsibility: A Celebration of Hendrik Hart's Contribution to the Discipline (edited book)Upa. 2002.This festschrift collects a number of insightful essays by a group of accomplished Christian scholars, all of who have either worked with or studied under Hendrik Hart during his 35-year tenure as Senior Member in Systematic Philosophy at the Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto, Canada
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157Gender Identity Without Gender PrescriptionsSymposium 2 (2): 223-235. 1998.The postmodern rejection of essentialism does not mean that feminist theorists must abandon all categorizations of women. Indeed, while it is important to deconstruct identities and highlight the differences among women, we need to arrive at some notion of gender identity for political purposes. In paying careful attention to the distinction between nominal essences and real essences, the author shows that the category of women can be maintained without resorting to the problems of traditional e…Read more
Vrije Universiteit In Amsterdam
Alumnus
Areas of Specialization
| Metaphysics and Epistemology |
| Feminist Epistemology |
| Feminist Approaches to Philosophy |