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55Sartre, dialectic, and the problem of overcoming bad faithMan and World 10 (3): 292-302. 1977.InBeing and Nothingness, Jean-Paul Sartre affirms a circle of relations between oneself and another. This circle moves between the relations of love and desire and results from the fact that both love and desire are attempts to capture the other who always remains out of reach. Sartre denies that there can be a dialectic of such relations with others: never can there be a motivated movement beyond the frustrations and failures of each of these attempts to relate to the other. The only way out of…Read more
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53Challenging the Genteel Supports of Atrocities: A Response to The Atrocity ParadigmHypatia 24 (1). 2009.Inspired by Card's focus on atrocities, I reflect on attitudes and behaviors that buttress and support evil. Surely, the frequent anti-Semitic sermons in German churches helped to form and later to support the views of both Nazis and those who accepted and cooperated with them. Similarly, lynching, rape, and abuse occur within societies whose structures and laws reflect dominant, generally "genteel" racism and sexism and, in turn, help create perpetrators and at least somewhat sympathetic onlook…Read more
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52Identity politics?: A response to Ian H. BirchallSartre Studies International 4 (2): 79-84. 1998.
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43Gallantry: What it is and why it should not surviveSouthern Journal of Philosophy 22 (2): 165-173. 1984.
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41Rethinking Ethics in the Midst of Violence: A Feminist Approach to FreedomRowman & Littlefield. 1993.Moving beyond the traditional feminist ethics of care, Linda A. Bell places an existentialist conception of liberation at the heart of ethics and argues that only an ethics of freedom sufficiently allows for feminist critique and opposition ...
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37Does Marriage Require a Head? Some Historical ArgumentsHypatia 4 (1). 1989.Are hierarchies necessary in human relationships? This issue is a central one for feminist theory, and there is a continuing need to rethink relationships and to envision what they might be like without any sort of dominance of some over others. To aid this process of envisioning alternatives, this paper examines more closely the way one of the most intimate of hierarchies - marriage - has been argued and envisioned historically.
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36Review: A Review of Andrea Nye's "Feminist Theory and the Philosophies of Man" (review)Hypatia 5 (1). 1990.In this provocative book, Nye argues that feminist attempts to spin coherent theories from the threads of the various philosophies of man fail as the patriarchal assumptions of each theory resist and undermine every effort. Nevertheless, she claims, although the threads cannot be woven into a coherent tapestry, as dedicated feminist Arachnes meticulously separate strand from strand, "the mechanisms of oppression are finally understood" and the patriarchal tapestries begin to unravel.
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24Review of Cynthia Willett, The Soul of Justice: Social Bonds and Racial Hubris (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2002 (3). 2002.
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23Overcoming Racism and SexismRowman & Littlefield. 1995.Seventeen essays on the ways racism and sexism have intersected and buttressed each other in the United States. They include: "I just see people"--exercises in learning the effects of racism and sexism; conjuring race; reflections on the meaning of white; changing the subject--studies in the appropriation of pain; hard-to- handle anger; and the problem of speaking for others. Paper edition, $22.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
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23Play in a Sartrean Feminist EthicsJournal of French and Francophone Philosophy 4 (2-3): 281-301. 1992.- none -
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19Beyond the Margins: Reflections of a Feminist PhilosopherSUNY Press. 2003.Presenting essays rich with her own personal experiences, philosopher Linda A. Bell examines not only her own life but also problems arising from ways that living affects thinking.
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17Robert Harvey., Search for a Father: Sartre, Paternity, and the Question of EthicsInternational Studies in Philosophy 26 (2): 126-127. 1994.
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16Feminist Theory and the Philosophies of ManHypatia 5 (1): 127-132. 1990.In this provocative book, Nye argues that feminist attempts to spin coherent theories from the threads of the various philosophies of man fail as the patriarchal assumptions of each theory resist and undermine every effort. Nevertheless, she claims, although the threads cannot be woven into a coherent tapestry, as dedicated feminist Arachnes meticulously separate strand from strand, "the mechanisms of oppression are finally understood" and the patriarchal tapestries begin to unravel.
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14Visions of Women: Being a Fascinating Anthology with Analysis of Philosophers’ Views of Women From Ancient to Modern Times (edited book)The Humana Press. 1983.People of Socrates' time were frequently aghast at the questions he would ask. Their responses were of the sort elicited by very dumb or ex tremely obvious questions: "Don't you know? Everyone else does. " Socrates was hardly alone in his knack for asking such questions. Phi losophers have always asked peculiar questions most other people would never dream of asking, convinced as the latter are that the answers were settled long ago in the collective "wisdom" of society, including ques tions abo…Read more
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13Challenging the Genteel Supports of Atrocities: A Response to The Atrocity ParadigmHypatia 24 (1): 123-140. 2009.Inspired by Card's focus on atrocities, I reflect on attitudes and behaviors that buttress and support evil. Surely, the frequent anti-Semitic sermons in German churches helped to form and later to support the views of both Nazis and those who accepted and cooperated with them. Similarly, lynching, rape, and abuse occur within societies whose structures and laws reflect dominant, generally “genteel” racism and sexism and, in turn, help create perpetrators and at least somewhat sympathetic onlook…Read more
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12Friendship, Love, and ExperienceIn Linda Fisher & Lester E. Embree (eds.), Feminist Phenomenology, Kluwer Academic Publishers, C. pp. 195--211. 2000.
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10Some Critical Reflections on the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy and on U.S. PhilosophyJournal of Speculative Philosophy 26 (2): 216-221. 2012.
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Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |
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