Hipparchia''s Choice - An Essay Concerning Women, Philosophy, Etc.

Informationen zum Autor Michele Le Doeuff. Translated by Trista Selous Klappentext "To be a philosopher and to be a feminist are one and the same thing. A feminist is a woman who does not allow anyone to think in her place."-from Hipparchia's ChoiceA work of rare insight and irreverence! Hipparchia's Choice boldly recasts the history of philosophy from the pre-Socratics to the post-Derrideans as one of masculine texts and male problems. The position of women! therefore! is less the result of a hypothetical "femininity" and more the fault of exclusion by men. Nevertheless! women have been and continue to be drawn to "the exercise of thought." So how does a female philosopher become a conceptually adventurous woman? Focusing on the work of Sartre and Beauvoir (specifically! his sexism and her relation to it)! Michèle Le Doeuff shows how women philosophers can reclaim a place for feminist concerns. Is The Second Sex a work of philosophy! and! if so! what can it teach us about the relation of philosophy to experience? Now with a new epilogue! Hipparchia's Choice points the way toward a discipline that is accountable to history! feminism! and society. Zusammenfassung Takes on the history of philosophy! viewing it as a history of masculine texts and male problems and questioning its social and legislative conclusions. This work argues that the position of women in philosophy is a question of exclusion by men rather than! as some suggest! of a hypothetically imminent "femininity."

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Michele Le Doeuff, Michele Le Doeuff, Le Doeuff Michele
• Mitarbeit: Trista Selous (Übersetzung), Selous Trista (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.01.2007
• EAN: 9780231138956
• ISBN: 978-0-231-13895-6
• Seiten: 392
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Antike bis Gegenwart; PHILOSOPHY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Philosophy, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Women, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls