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Care and the Limits of a Pro-Choice Discourse Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Ann E. Bartos
The global pandemic exposed many flaws in the gendered political economy. It also illuminated how essential care is to our economy and to our flourishing. Yet, when care is dependent on a capitalist system that relies on competition, there will always be people who receive care and those that will not. In such a system, care is wrongly perceived to be a “choice” one can opt into or out of. This short
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From Opposition to Creativity: Saba Mahmood's Decolonial Critique of Teleological Feminist Futures Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Muhammad Velji
Saba Mahmood's anthropological work studies the gain in skills, agency, and capacity building by the women's dawa movement in Egypt. These women increase their virtue toward the goal of piety by following dominant, often patriarchal norms. Mahmood argues that “teleological feminism” ignores this gain in agency because this kind of feminism only focuses on opposition or resistance to these norms. In
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Strategies, Symbols, and Subjectivities: The Continuities between War Rape and Lesbo-Phobic Rape Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Claire Stephanie Westman
Research into war rape has shown that rape is not incidental to the general violence of war but is instead an integral part of war strategies. Such research makes it clear that in the context of war, rape serves to injure women on an individual level, but has the more strategic effect of fracturing communal bonds. Similarly, the growing body of research investigating the reasons for, and consequences
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Naturalized, Fundamental, and Feminist Metaphysics All at Once: The Case of Barad's Agential Realism Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Rasmus Jaksland
An apparent antagonism exists between fundamentality-focused mainstream metaphysics such as naturalized metaphysics—a metaphysics inspired and constrained by the findings of our best science—and feminist metaphysics whose subject matter is typically non-fundamental social reality. Taking Karen Barad's agential realism as a case study, this paper argues that these may not be in conflict after all. Agential
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Personification and Objectification Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Nils-Hennes Stear
A handful of scholars have connected objectification (treating people like objects) to personification (treating objects like people). The recurring idea is that personification may entail objectification and therefore share in the latter's ethical difficulties. This idea is defended by various feminist philosophers. They focus on how the connection manifests in the male, heterosexual consumption of
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Vulnerability, Recognition, and the Ethics of Pregnancy: A Theological Response Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Margaret D. Kamitsuka
Vulnerability is a notion discussed in feminist philosophy as a basis for a morality that widens our sense of those whose deaths are grievable. Vulnerability and grievability also factor in reproductive ethics. This essay employs recognition theory to analyze critically how these notions are mobilized in conservative Christian anti-abortion writings and in feminist philosophy. This analysis exposes
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“Like Seeking out a Lost Friend”: Reconsidering “Pioneer” Arab Feminists and Their Networks as Part of a/the First Wave Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Roxanne Douglas
Contemporary Arab feminist writers such as Margot Badran and Mona Eltahawy describe their personal discovery of Arab “pioneers.” This label positions “pioneers” as exceptional figures, which untethers their legacy from contemporary Arab feminists, and from one another. Drawing on the Warwick Research Collective's concept of “combined and uneven development,” this essay rethinks how we understand the
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“The Only Thing I Want is for People to Stop Seeing Me Naked”: Consent, Contracts, and Sexual Media Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Joan Eleanor O'Bryan
In pornography, standard modeling contracts often require a performer to surrender rights over their public image and sexual media in perpetuity and across media. Under these contracts, performers are unable to determine who accesses, for what duration, and under what conditions, their sexual media. As a result, pornography has been described by some performers as a “life sentence”—a phrase which,
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Sexual Fluency: Embedded Imaginaries and Unjust Sex Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Millicent Sarah Churcher
In this paper I argue that the pervasive reality of unjust heterosex necessitates greater attention to the concept of “sexual fluency” (Cahill 2014). This paper elaborates on what it means to be a sexually fluent and disfluent subject, and its broader ethical and political significance. As part of this discussion, I explore the relationship between sexual (dis)fluency and embedded imaginaries, and
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Pornography as Illocutionary Harm: Why Censorship is Not the Answer Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Miriam Ronzoni
According to speech-act theory, we do things with words every time we speak. The most striking thing one can do with words is to exercise authority over others, such as when a judge issues a guilty verdict in a criminal trial. Some speakers hold this kind of authority without good reason; this kind of speech constitutes an unjust imposition of authority, and thus arguably harms in a direct, non-metaphorical
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Teachers as Housewives and the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Teacher's Perspective Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Áila KK O'Loughlin
The 1970s Wages Against Housework (WAH) movement has much to offer as we form a “new normal” for life and work within the Covid-19 pandemic. WAH feminist philosophers Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Selma James, and Silvia Federici, as well as WAH critic Angela Davis outline the ways in which the housewife functions as a laborer within capitalist accumulation, as her duties to care for the home and rear the
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Becoming-Woman and Time: When is the Subject of Feminism? Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Charlie Bowen
This paper considers the use of Deleuze and Guattari's concept of “becoming-woman” for feminist theory. Since its first use, the concept has polarized feminist theory. For some, it presents the route out of masculinist logics that third-wave feminism has sought; for others, it denies the female experience and returns “woman” to universalizing, implicitly masculine presuppositions. The paper argues
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Being Your Best Self: Authenticity, Morality, and Gender Norms Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Rowan Bell
Trans and gender-nonconforming people sometimes say that certain gender norms are authentic for them. For example, a trans man might say that abiding by norms of masculinity tracks who he really is. Authenticity is sometimes taken to appeal to an essential, pre-social “inner self.” It is also sometimes understood as a moral notion. Authenticity claims about gender norms therefore appear inimical to
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Old Epistemic Vices and Islamophobia in Martha Nussbaum's The New Religious Intolerance Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Tasneem Alsayyed
Martha Nussbaum in her The New Religious Intolerance (2012) commits several old forms of epistemic vice including exclusion, orientalism, and colonial discourse. Unsurprisingly, as a result, her text contributes to the production of ignorance about Muslims and Muslim women despite her intention of combating Islamophobia. In this article, I specifically critique Nussbaum's anti-burqa-ban arguments and
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Trans Epistemology and Methodological Radicalism: Un Œuf, But Enough Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Matthew J. Cull
There have now been a few attempts in trans theory to give an account of trans epistemology (see Radi 2019; Meadow 2016; and Dickson 2021). I will suggest that despite an admirable goal—that of giving an epistemology that provides a methodologically radical and distinctively trans break from other contemporary epistemological theory—thus far no account has been successful. Instead, I suggest that,
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Epistemic Diversity and Epistemic Advantage: A Comparison of Two Causal Theories in Feminist Epistemology Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Tay Jeong
Feminist epistemology aims to propose epistemic reasons for increasing the representation of women or socially subordinated people in science. This is typically done—albeit often only implicitly—by positing a causal mechanism through which the representation of sociodemographic minorities exerts a positive effect on scientific advancement. Two types of causal theories can be identified. The “epistemic
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Sexual Violence and Two Types of Moral Wrongs Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Ting-an Lin
Although the idea that sexual violence is a “structural” problem is not new, the lack of specification as to what that entails blocks effective responses to it. This paper illustrates the concept of sexual violence as structural in the sense of containing a type of moral wrong called “structural wrong” and discusses its practical implications. First, I introduce a distinction between two types of moral
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From Anti-Exceptionalism to Feminist Logic Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Gillian K. Russell
Anti-exceptionalists about formal logic think that logic is continuous with the sciences. Many philosophers of science think that there is feminist science. Putting these together: can anti-exceptionalism make space for feminist logic? The answer depends on the details of the ways logic is like science and the ways science can be feminist. This paper wades into these details, examines five different
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Just Asking! On “Friendly” Forms of Harassment Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Martha Claeys
Harassment is often understood to be, in its paradigm form, overtly aggressive or hostile. But harassment can also occur in a more deceptive format, and can be presented as soft, neutral, innocent, or even friendly and caring. There is something fundamentally deceptive and dishonest about this kind of harassment. The overt friendliness makes these particular forms of harassment harder to spot, and
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An Epistemic Injustice Critique of Austin's Ordinary Language Epistemology Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Savannah Pearlman
J. L. Austin argues that ordinary language should be used to identify when it is appropriate or inappropriate to make, accept, or reject knowledge claims. I criticize Austin's account. In our ordinary life, we often accept justifications rooted in racism, sexism, ableism, and classism as reasons to dismiss knowledge claims or challenges, despite the fact such reasons are not good reasons. Austin's
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An Ecofeminist Politics of Chicken Ovulation: A Socio-Capitalist Model of Ability as Farmed Animal Impairment Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Yamini Narayanan
Through a combined ecofeminist, and critical disability philosophical analysis of the commodification of female farmed animal reproduction, the paper conceptualizes ability as a socio-capitalist construct that can carry the potential for harm. Patriarchal farmed animal capitalism relies upon the idea of naturalized ability of farmed females to be hyper-reproductive/hyper-ovulatory/hyper-lactative.
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The Many Genealogies of Feminist Activism Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Breanne Fahs
The stakes of feminist activism, and the fault lines within feminism, have a newfound significance in this cultural moment. In response to the fall of Roe, the ascendancy of incendiary far-right politics, and the mainstreaming of white-supremacist ideologies, grassroots feminist activism and its impacts have never mattered more. When reading Rachel Seidman's Speaking of Feminism and Arielle Rotramel's
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Intersectionality, Intersectional Standpoints, and Identity Politics Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Zahra Meghani
This article differentiates between standpoints, intersectionality, intersectional standpoints, and identity politics. It argues that although there is no necessary connection between intersectionality and ethics, the intersectional standpoints of the oppressed do epistemic, ethical, and political work. To make this argument it uses a case study that takes the form of an analysis of mainstream arguments
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Are Metaphors Ethically Bad Epistemic Practice? Epistemic Injustice at the Intersections Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Kaitlin Sibbald
The COVID-19 pandemic brought the debate about the ethics of metaphors to the fore. In this article, I draw on blending theory—a theory of cognition—and theories of epistemic injustice to explore both the epistemic and ethical implications of metaphors. Beginning with a discussion of the conceptual alterations that may result from the use of metaphors, I argue that the effects these alterations have
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Cis Feminist Moves to Innocence Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Nora Berenstain
Cis feminist theorists sometimes employ rhetorical moves to claim innocence while abdicating responsibility for engaging with trans scholarship and theory as well as structural transmisogyny. I suggest that it is helpful to understand this phenomenon using a conception of cis feminist moves to innocence. These rhetorical moves enable cisgender feminists to falsely position their failure to engage with
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Complexity as Epistemic Oppression: Writing People with Intellectual Disabilities Back into Philosophical Conversations Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Rebecca Monteleone
Formal Language In this essay, I reflect on the systematic exclusion of people with intellectual disabilities from philosophy even as their personhood is subject to ongoing philosophical debates. Theorizing this disenfranchisement as a form of epistemic oppression, I consider it in the context of the invalidation of disabled perspectives more broadly and characteristics of knowledge-production that
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Religious Identity and Epistemic Injustice: An Intersectional Account Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Jaclyn Rekis
In this article, I argue in favor of an intersectional account of religious identity to better make sense of how religious subjects can be treated with epistemic injustice. To do this, I posit two perspectives through which to view religious identity: as a social identity and as a worldview. I argue that these perspectives shed light on the unique ways in which religious subjects can be epistemically
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The Epistemological Asymmetry of Framing “Woman” via US Women's Rights Pioneers Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Lauren Bickell
Nineteenth-century US social activist contemporaries Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Sojourner Truth are memorialized as women's rights pioneers. White activists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony cemented a generational canon. Black activist Sojourner Truth anticipated the eventual crystallization of intersectionality. These figures’ historical proximity underscores the high
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Celebrating Neurodivergence amid Social Injustice Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Meaghan Krazinski
Burgeoning narratives of neurodivergence increase representation in media, producing an unprecedented visibility and awareness of what it means to be neurodivergent in a neurotypical world. In this article I examine the ways in which a neurodivergent subject position can provide liberatory insights into oppressive patriarchal gender structures, while exploring productive tensions of the histories and
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Toward an Agential Conception of Hermeneutical Injustice: Isolation and Domestic Violence Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Emma C. Dougherty
Miranda Fricker's definition of hermeneutical injustice entails that hermeneutical injustice is always structural and never agential, but I argue that hermeneutical injustice has an agential dimension that is evident in cases of domestic violence. This dimension becomes especially apparent when examining the experiences of knowers who are multiply nondominant. Centering this intersectional approach
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Solidarity with Chrystul Kizer: On Disparate Failures of Knowledge-Attribution and Survivors of Sexual Violence Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Ayanna De'Vante Spencer
I write in solidarity with Chrystul Kizer, a criminalized Black teen survivor of sexual violence in Wisconsin, to detail how her ongoing legal fight occurs in a tilted sociopolitical and epistemological landscape with weighted opponents. I offer a theory of disparate failures of knowledge-attribution for survivors of sexual violence, a structural epistemological problem that I call constructed pragmatic
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What Does It Mean to Be an American? American Ignorance and Social Imagination of Citizenship Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Saba Fatima
In its war on terror, the United States tortured and abused individuals in its custody over a decade. This article examines a specific sort of epistemic response by Americans to the use of torture by their government, the sort of response that enables Americans to operate with epistemic ignorance to maintain a favorable construction of their identity as Americans. I lay out the concept of American
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“World”-Traveling in Tule Canoes: Indigenous Philosophies of Language and an Ethic of Incommensurability Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner
Indigenous language activists talk about incommensurability all the time—in interesting ways that link language and knowledge as components of Indigenous lifeways that can't be disentangled. According to many of these scholar-activists, what is untranslatable about Indigenous languages is often what is incommensurate about Indigenous worlds. Drawing upon resources from Indigenous language-reclamation
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Solidarity with Chrystul Kizer: On Disparate Failures of Knowledge-Attribution and Survivors of Sexual Violence Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Ayanna De'Vante Spencer
I write in solidarity with Chrystul Kizer, a criminalized Black teen survivor of sexual violence in Wisconsin, to detail how her ongoing legal fight occurs in a tilted sociopolitical and epistemological landscape with weighted opponents. I offer a theory of disparate failures of knowledge-attribution for survivors of sexual violence, a structural epistemological problem that I call constructed pragmatic
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What Does It Mean to Be an American? American Ignorance and Social Imagination of Citizenship Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Saba Fatima
In its war on terror, the United States tortured and abused individuals in its custody over a decade. This article examines a specific sort of epistemic response by Americans to the use of torture by their government, the sort of response that enables Americans to operate with epistemic ignorance to maintain a favorable construction of their identity as Americans. I lay out the concept of American
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“World”-Traveling in Tule Canoes: Indigenous Philosophies of Language and an Ethic of Incommensurability Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner
Indigenous language activists talk about incommensurability all the time—in interesting ways that link language and knowledge as components of Indigenous lifeways that can't be disentangled. According to many of these scholar-activists, what is untranslatable about Indigenous languages is often what is incommensurate about Indigenous worlds. Drawing upon resources from Indigenous language-reclamation
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Audre Lorde's Erotic as Epistemic and Political Practice Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Caleb Ward
Audre Lorde's account of the erotic is one of her most widely celebrated contributions to political theory and feminist activism, but her explanation of the term in her brief essay “Uses of the Erotic” is famously oblique and ambiguous. This article develops a detailed, textually grounded interpretation of Lorde's erotic, based on an analysis of how Lorde's essay brings together commitments expressed
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Audre Lorde's Erotic as Epistemic and Political Practice Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Caleb Ward
Audre Lorde's account of the erotic is one of her most widely celebrated contributions to political theory and feminist activism, but her explanation of the term in her brief essay “Uses of the Erotic” is famously oblique and ambiguous. This article develops a detailed, textually grounded interpretation of Lorde's erotic, based on an analysis of how Lorde's essay brings together commitments expressed
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Notes from a Structural Epistemologist Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Ezgi Sertler
In answering my undergraduate students’ questions about what I do, I keep coming back to the term structural epistemology. If some students push me further to not hide behind terms, I tell them: I study structures (social, political, and cultural institutions and arrangements)—not all of them at the same time, obviously—and what they do to our knowledge practices (what we know and how we know). And
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Notes from a Structural Epistemologist Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Ezgi Sertler
In answering my undergraduate students’ questions about what I do, I keep coming back to the term structural epistemology. If some students push me further to not hide behind terms, I tell them: I study structures (social, political, and cultural institutions and arrangements)—not all of them at the same time, obviously—and what they do to our knowledge practices (what we know and how we know). And
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Animating the Affect–Care–Labor Link in the Wake of “The Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill”: Care Ethics and Policymaking on Indian Surrogacy Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Amrita Banerjee, Priya Sharma
Starting from the early 2000s, India was one of the most sought-after destinations for commercial surrogacy. However, in 2015 the government decided to ban transnational commercial surrogacy, and recently “The Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021,” which bans commercial surrogacy altogether and confines it to its altruistic form, has been enacted. Our article makes a philosophical intervention into the
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“My Soul Hurt, and I Felt as If I Was Going to Die”: Obstetric Violence as Torture Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Sara Cohen Shabot, Michelle Sadler
Obstetric violence—violence in the labor room—has been described in terms not only of violence in general but of gender violence specifically. This feminist-phenomenological analysis demonstrates features that the experiences of torture and of obstetric violence share. Many birthing subjects describe their experiences of obstetric violence as torture. This use of the concept of torture to explain what
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“Obstetric Violence,” “Mistreatment,” and “Disrespect and Abuse”: Reflections on the Politics of Naming Violations During Facility-Based Childbirth Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Camilla Pickles
Naming performs an important function in society. Names shape our reality by creating the means to bring into existence previously unseen events or unacknowledged experiences, and naming impacts how society responds to these. This article interrogates the problem of naming the phenomenon of violence and abuse during childbirth with a focus on three principal concepts: “mistreatment,” “disrespect and
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Animating the Affect–Care–Labor Link in the Wake of “The Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill”: Care Ethics and Policymaking on Indian Surrogacy Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Amrita Banerjee, Priya Sharma
Starting from the early 2000s, India was one of the most sought-after destinations for commercial surrogacy. However, in 2015 the government decided to ban transnational commercial surrogacy, and recently “The Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021,” which bans commercial surrogacy altogether and confines it to its altruistic form, has been enacted. Our article makes a philosophical intervention into the
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“My Soul Hurt, and I Felt as If I Was Going to Die”: Obstetric Violence as Torture Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Sara Cohen Shabot, Michelle Sadler
Obstetric violence—violence in the labor room—has been described in terms not only of violence in general but of gender violence specifically. This feminist-phenomenological analysis demonstrates features that the experiences of torture and of obstetric violence share. Many birthing subjects describe their experiences of obstetric violence as torture. This use of the concept of torture to explain what
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“Obstetric Violence,” “Mistreatment,” and “Disrespect and Abuse”: Reflections on the Politics of Naming Violations During Facility-Based Childbirth Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Camilla Pickles
Naming performs an important function in society. Names shape our reality by creating the means to bring into existence previously unseen events or unacknowledged experiences, and naming impacts how society responds to these. This article interrogates the problem of naming the phenomenon of violence and abuse during childbirth with a focus on three principal concepts: “mistreatment,” “disrespect and
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Thinking through Vulnerability Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Erinn Gilson
The topic of vulnerability has been the subject of intense scholarly interest and work, especially in feminist theory. It circulates in academic and nonacademic contexts, spans many disciplines, including both applied fields and highly theoretical ones, and in philosophy in particular has been taken up in multiple subfields and approaches to the discipline. The concept's widespread appeal might stem
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Thinking through Vulnerability Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Erinn Gilson
The topic of vulnerability has been the subject of intense scholarly interest and work, especially in feminist theory. It circulates in academic and nonacademic contexts, spans many disciplines, including both applied fields and highly theoretical ones, and in philosophy in particular has been taken up in multiple subfields and approaches to the discipline. The concept's widespread appeal might stem
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Repeating Her Autonomy: Beauvoir, Kierkegaard, and Women's Liberation Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Dana Rognlie
In The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir diagnoses “woman” as the “lost sex,” torn between her individual autonomy and her “feminine destiny.” Becoming a “real woman” in patriarchal societies demands that women lose their authentic, autonomous selves to become the “inessential Other” for Man. To better understand this diagnosis and how women might refind themselves, I rehabilitate the influence of Søren
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Undoing Matricide as Maternal Radical Care Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Miri Rozmarin, Shlomit Simhi
The concept of matricide theorizes the marginal position of the mother within a phallocentric and patriarchal society from a psychoanalytic perspective. This article seeks to contribute to the understanding of transformative nonmatricidal processes by analyzing the relations between the psychic and political aspects of these processes. We argue that nonmatricidal spaces can be created through the mobilization
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Repeating Her Autonomy: Beauvoir, Kierkegaard, and Women's Liberation Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Dana Rognlie
In The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir diagnoses “woman” as the “lost sex,” torn between her individual autonomy and her “feminine destiny.” Becoming a “real woman” in patriarchal societies demands that women lose their authentic, autonomous selves to become the “inessential Other” for Man. To better understand this diagnosis and how women might refind themselves, I rehabilitate the influence of Søren
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Undoing Matricide as Maternal Radical Care Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Miri Rozmarin, Shlomit Simhi
The concept of matricide theorizes the marginal position of the mother within a phallocentric and patriarchal society from a psychoanalytic perspective. This article seeks to contribute to the understanding of transformative nonmatricidal processes by analyzing the relations between the psychic and political aspects of these processes. We argue that nonmatricidal spaces can be created through the mobilization
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Caring for Delivery: Healthcare Professionals’ Ethical Conflicts in Surrogate Pregnancy Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Rosana Triviño-Caballero
From the beginning of the practice of surrogate pregnancy, ethical approaches to it have included several dimensions. Central issues such as surrogates’ genuine autonomy, the risk of exploitation of people in vulnerable situations, or the legitimacy of the commercialization of the body have kept this debate alive for more than three decades. Among all the conflicts, those related to healthcare professionals
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Our Sex's Rights Have Seen Such Autocratic Treatment: Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht on Women's Rights Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Matilda Amundsen Bergström
This article discusses Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht's (1718–63) poem Fruentimrets Försvar, Emot J. J. Rousseau Medborgare i Genève (Nordenflycht 1761) [Defense of the female sex against J. J. Rousseau, citizen of Geneva], written as a response to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Lettre sur les spectacles (1758; in Rousseau 1968). Heretofore, Nordenflycht's poem has been considered primarily from the perspective
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(Re)Reading Monique Wittig: Domination, Utopia, and Polysemy Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 J. A. Szymanski
This article offers a rereading of Monique Wittig's philosophical writing on sex, gender, and sexuality against some of the major criticisms that have led to limited engagement with her work. I argue that reorienting our understanding of Wittig's lesbian-feminism away from notions of sexuality per se enables us to read her in terms of a larger project that takes aim at the primacy of phallocentrism
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Caring for Delivery: Healthcare Professionals’ Ethical Conflicts in Surrogate Pregnancy Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Rosana Triviño-Caballero
From the beginning of the practice of surrogate pregnancy, ethical approaches to it have included several dimensions. Central issues such as surrogates’ genuine autonomy, the risk of exploitation of people in vulnerable situations, or the legitimacy of the commercialization of the body have kept this debate alive for more than three decades. Among all the conflicts, those related to healthcare professionals
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Our Sex's Rights Have Seen Such Autocratic Treatment: Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht on Women's Rights Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Matilda Amundsen Bergström
This article discusses Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht's (1718–63) poem Fruentimrets Försvar, Emot J. J. Rousseau Medborgare i Genève (Nordenflycht 1761) [Defense of the female sex against J. J. Rousseau, citizen of Geneva], written as a response to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Lettre sur les spectacles (1758; in Rousseau 1968). Heretofore, Nordenflycht's poem has been considered primarily from the perspective
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(Re)Reading Monique Wittig: Domination, Utopia, and Polysemy Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 J. A. Szymanski
This article offers a rereading of Monique Wittig's philosophical writing on sex, gender, and sexuality against some of the major criticisms that have led to limited engagement with her work. I argue that reorienting our understanding of Wittig's lesbian-feminism away from notions of sexuality per se enables us to read her in terms of a larger project that takes aim at the primacy of phallocentrism
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Caring for an Aged Mother: Unsettling of Ethics Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Sharada Nair
Finding myself having to look after a mother grown old and infirm, the dilemmas in the practice of care as a moral value have been sharply foregrounded—for this is a mother with whom I have clashed my entire life. Though typically taken for granted at the time, there is no denying the enduring effect of the care provided by a dedicated mother. But, over the years, this has become fissured by an acute
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Degrees of Care: Success, Recognition, and Completion Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.131) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Pip Seton Bennett
Care ethics has attracted much scholarly attention since its inception in the 1980s. As befits a moral theory, which is how it is frequently perceived, those working in the field have increasingly sought to clarify and make robust elements central to the project. This article hopes to offer a small but important contribution to this iterative process. I make a case for resisting what is characterized