By Patricia Jagentowicz Mills
A pivotal determine in serious conception and the modern/postmodern debates, G. W. F. Hegel is the topic of differing feminist reviews. Going past and at the back of Simone de Beauvoir's inventive appropriation of Hegel in The moment Sex, the essays collected jointly the following imagine either with and opposed to the grain of Hegel's dialectical conception in the course of the lens of gender concerns present in his philosophy. a number of the authors specialise in fashionable passages on girl and the female in Hegel's paintings, whereas others argue that it's interpretations of the margins of his textual content which are such a lot telling. Hegel articulates one of many significant questions with which political feminists are involved: find out how to conceptualize identification and distinction. some extent of competition one of the authors is whether Hegel's speculative method, with its "reconciliation" of id and distinction, "answers" this question. members contain the French thinker Luce Irigaray, the Italian feminist Carla Lonzi, and the Canadian theoretician Mary O'Brien, in addition to Seyla Benhabib, Patricia Jagentowicz turbines, David Farrell Krell, Frances Olsen, Naomi Schor, Eric O. Clarke, Carole Pateman, Heidi M. Ravven, Alison L. Brown, and Shari Neller Starrett. learn jointly, the articles pressure the transgressive nature of feminist conception because it demanding situations disciplinary limitations; they're the articulation of the numerous various options and positions of the "vigorous debate" that defines feminist conception today.
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Schor's "This Essentialism" gives an excellent account of the debate. 15. Whitford, Luce Irigaray, 7. 16. lrigaray's meditation on woman in the Phenomenology has been interpreted as a recasting of the master-slave dialectic by Heidi Ravven (see Chapter 10, note 34). However, Margaret Whitford argues against this interpretation since, unlike the master-slave relationship, lrigaray sees the male-female relationship as essentially non-reversible. See Whitford's Luce Irigaray, 120, 183-84. 17. used the term archaeology to describe his early explorations of discourse formation; see Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge (New York: Harper, 1972).
Women who no longer have the small political consciousness-raising groups in which to re-create themselves as social subjects have turned to the act of writing to re-member themselves. See, for example, Mab Secrest, Memoir of a Race Traitor (Boston: South End Press, 1994); Nancy Mairs, Remembering the Bone House (New York: Harper & Row, 1989); Elaine Brown, A Taste of Power (New York: Pantheon Books, 1993). For a theoretical account of 'Mlmen's autobiographical writing, see Shoshana Felman, What Does a Woman Want?
Divorce presents a particular problem because, as a phenomenon, it belongs under two categories at once. On the one hand, it is a legal matter just as the marriage contract is; on the other, it is an issue that belongs to the "ethical" sphere, and more specifically to the subjectivity of the individuals involved. Hegel admits that because the bodily,sensual as ~ell as spiritual attraction and love of two particular individuals form the basis of the marriage contract, an alienation between them can take place that justifies divorce; but this is only to be determined by an impersonal third,party authority, for instance, a court.