Posts tagged ‘Feminism’
Helen Macfarlane
Independent object
by David Black and Ben Watson / RP 187 (Sept/Oct 2014) / Article
Talking of the destructive nature of egoistic desire, its satisfaction that the other is nothing, Hegel made room for further development, an empirical moment which might surprise those who think German Idealism only ever allowed for abstraction: ‘In this satisfaction, however, experience makes it [the simple ‘I’] aware that the object has its own independence.’ …
Gillian Howie, 1965-2013
by J'annine Jobling / RP 180 (July/Aug 2013) / Obituary
‘The Personal is the Philosophical’
Mary McIntosh, 1936–2013
A Founder of Feminist Review
by Carol Smart / RP 178 (Mar/Apr 2013) / Obituary
Mary McIntosh was an intellectual, a socialist and a feminist activist. She was a woman of strong principles, combined with an abundance of personal kindness. She occupied a pioneering role in many social movements of the late twentieth century, in particular the Gay Liberation Front and the second-wave feminist movements of the 1970s.
Mary …
She’s just not that into you
by Nina Power / RP 177 (Jan/Feb 2013) / Review
Tiqqun, Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl, trans. Ariana Reines, Semiotext(e), Intervention series 12, Los Angeles, 2012. 144 pp., £9.95 pb., 978 1 58435 108 5.
How best to describe the colonization of the body at this particular juncture of capitalist life? Much recent theorizing has focused on a kind of war of …
Shulamith Firestone, 1945–2012
by Stella Sandford / RP 176 (Nov/Dec 2012) / Obituary
Shulamith Firestone was perhaps the most infamous radical feminist theorist of the twentieth century. As a student at the Art Institute of Chicago, she became an early activist in the women’s movement, founding (with Jo Freeman) the Westside Group in 1967, in large part in response to the patronizing sexism of left politics …
Margaret Whitford, 1947–2011
by Kathleen Lennon / RP 170 (Nov/Dec 2011) / Obituary
‘It is difficult to convey the desert which faced women philosophers in Britain in the early 1980s’, Margaret Whitford once remarked. It was a desert that Margaret’s own work was pivotal in modifying. At a time when feminism was flourishing outside the academy, philosophy seemed especially immune from its influence; both in terms …
Sara Ruddick, 1935–2011
A Mother's Thought
by Lisa Baraitser / RP 167 (May/Jun 2011) / Obituary
‘I speak about a mother’s thought’ wrote Sara Ruddick, the feminist philosopher who has died in New York at the age of 76. Along with Adrienne Rich, Ruddick was probably the most important philosophical thinker to address the issue of mothering and motherhood since second-wave feminism, and in a similar …
Sex: a transdisciplinary concept
From structure to rhizome: transdisciplinarity in French thought (1)
by Stella Sandford / RP 165 (Jan/Feb 2011) / Article, Dossier, From structure to rhizome: transdisciplinarity in French thought
What is sex? Some feminists have harboured suspicions about this form of question, given its philosophical (or ‘metaphysical’1) pedigree. But philosophy no longer has the disciplinary monopoly on it. Indeed, with regard to sex, the more interesting task today is to pose and to attempt to answer the question from within …
Feminism did not fail
by Lynne Segal / RP 161 (May/Jun 2010) / Commentary
‘You nearly gave me a heart attack’, a friend told me, after my talk at the opening session of the event in London celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the first national Women’s Liberation Conference in the UK, at Ruskin College, in February 1970. Appropriately enough, the feminist publisher and cultural entrepreneur Ursula Owen …
The absent philosopher-prince
Thinking political philosophy with Olympe de Gouges
by Ariella Azoulay / RP 158 (Nov/Dec 2009) / Article
Since the publication of Olivier Blanc’s biography of Olympe de Gouges and the first collection of her texts, compiled and edited by Benoîte Groult,1 dozens of articles on various aspects of de Gouges’s work have been published. All of them share the assumption that the author of this work was a fascinating figure of the …
This is not my body
Dossier: Undoing the Aesthetic Image
by Elisabeth Lebovici / RP 156 (Jul/Aug 2009) / Article, Dossier, Undoing the Aesthetic Image
‘All human beings are pregnant’
The bisexual imaginary in Plato’s Symposium
by Stella Sandford / RP 150 (Jul/Aug 2008) / Article
The incomplete materialism of French materialist feminism
by Alison Stone / RP 145 (Sep/Oct 2007) / Article
Jacques Derrida, 1930–2004
by David Cunningham, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Judith Butler, Simon Critchley, David Macey and David Wood / RP 129 (Jan/Feb 2005) / Obituary
In an interview with Le Monde published a couple of months before his death at the age of 74 from pancreatic cancer on Friday 9 October 2004, Jacques Derrida confirmed what many already knew, that he was ʻdangerously illʼ, ʻat war against myselfʼ. If questions of ʻsurvivalʼ had always ʻhauntedʼ him, this, he said, took …
Micropolitics
Leo Bersani and conflicts in contemporary feminism
by Rafeeq Hasan / RP 110 (Nov/Dec 2001) / Article
De Beauvoir’s Hegelianism
Rethinking The Second Sex
by Kimberly Hutchings / RP 107 (May/Jun 2001) / Article
The Ethics of Ambiguity is well known as de Beauvoirʼs attempt to formulate an existentialist ethics; that is to say, an ethics premissed on the account of the lack at the heart of any human existence (ʻthe being whose being is not to beʼ) given by Sartre in Being and Nothingness.1 The ʻambiguityʼ of the …
Feminism against ‘the feminine’
by Stella Sandford / RP 105 (Jan/Feb 2001) / Article
Whilst the distinction between French and Anglo-American feminism was always rather dubious (failing to be accurate, consistent or inclusive at the level of either national origin, language of choice or theoretical commitment; seeming to parcel feminist theory – or at least the feminist theory that mattered – out into two Western blocks from which the …
Psychoanalysis and politics
Juliet Mitchell then and now
by Lynne Segal / RP 103 (Sep/Oct 2000) / Article
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Helen Macfarlane
Independent objectby David Black and Ben Watson / RP 187 (Sept/Oct 2014) / Article
Talking of the destructive nature of egoistic desire, its satisfaction that the other is nothing, Hegel made room for further development, an empirical moment which might surprise those who think German Idealism only ever allowed for abstraction: ‘In this satisfaction, however, experience makes it [the simple ‘I’] aware that the object has its own independence.’ …
Gillian Howie, 1965-2013
by J'annine Jobling / RP 180 (July/Aug 2013) / Obituary‘The Personal is the Philosophical’
Mary McIntosh, 1936–2013
A Founder of Feminist Reviewby Carol Smart / RP 178 (Mar/Apr 2013) / Obituary
Mary McIntosh was an intellectual, a socialist and a feminist activist. She was a woman of strong principles, combined with an abundance of personal kindness. She occupied a pioneering role in many social movements of the late twentieth century, in particular the Gay Liberation Front and the second-wave feminist movements of the 1970s.
Mary …
She’s just not that into you
by Nina Power / RP 177 (Jan/Feb 2013) / ReviewTiqqun, Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl, trans. Ariana Reines, Semiotext(e), Intervention series 12, Los Angeles, 2012. 144 pp., £9.95 pb., 978 1 58435 108 5.
How best to describe the colonization of the body at this particular juncture of capitalist life? Much recent theorizing has focused on a kind of war of …
Shulamith Firestone, 1945–2012
by Stella Sandford / RP 176 (Nov/Dec 2012) / ObituaryShulamith Firestone was perhaps the most infamous radical feminist theorist of the twentieth century. As a student at the Art Institute of Chicago, she became an early activist in the women’s movement, founding (with Jo Freeman) the Westside Group in 1967, in large part in response to the patronizing sexism of left politics …
Margaret Whitford, 1947–2011
by Kathleen Lennon / RP 170 (Nov/Dec 2011) / Obituary‘It is difficult to convey the desert which faced women philosophers in Britain in the early 1980s’, Margaret Whitford once remarked. It was a desert that Margaret’s own work was pivotal in modifying. At a time when feminism was flourishing outside the academy, philosophy seemed especially immune from its influence; both in terms …
Sara Ruddick, 1935–2011
A Mother's Thoughtby Lisa Baraitser / RP 167 (May/Jun 2011) / Obituary
‘I speak about a mother’s thought’ wrote Sara Ruddick, the feminist philosopher who has died in New York at the age of 76. Along with Adrienne Rich, Ruddick was probably the most important philosophical thinker to address the issue of mothering and motherhood since second-wave feminism, and in a similar …
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Sex: a transdisciplinary concept
From structure to rhizome: transdisciplinarity in French thought (1)by Stella Sandford / RP 165 (Jan/Feb 2011) / Article, Dossier, From structure to rhizome: transdisciplinarity in French thought
What is sex? Some feminists have harboured suspicions about this form of question, given its philosophical (or ‘metaphysical’1) pedigree. But philosophy no longer has the disciplinary monopoly on it. Indeed, with regard to sex, the more interesting task today is to pose and to attempt to answer the question from within …
Feminism did not fail
by Lynne Segal / RP 161 (May/Jun 2010) / Commentary‘You nearly gave me a heart attack’, a friend told me, after my talk at the opening session of the event in London celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the first national Women’s Liberation Conference in the UK, at Ruskin College, in February 1970. Appropriately enough, the feminist publisher and cultural entrepreneur Ursula Owen …
![Item accessible to subscribers or available for single purchase](http://web.archive.org./web/20160323182339im_/http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/wp-content/themes/frankfurt/images/locked.gif)
The absent philosopher-prince
Thinking political philosophy with Olympe de Gougesby Ariella Azoulay / RP 158 (Nov/Dec 2009) / Article
Since the publication of Olivier Blanc’s biography of Olympe de Gouges and the first collection of her texts, compiled and edited by Benoîte Groult,1 dozens of articles on various aspects of de Gouges’s work have been published. All of them share the assumption that the author of this work was a fascinating figure of the …
![Item accessible to subscribers or available for single purchase](http://web.archive.org./web/20160323182339im_/http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/wp-content/themes/frankfurt/images/locked.gif)
This is not my body
Dossier: Undoing the Aesthetic Imageby Elisabeth Lebovici / RP 156 (Jul/Aug 2009) / Article, Dossier, Undoing the Aesthetic Image
![Item accessible to subscribers or available for single purchase](http://web.archive.org./web/20160323182339im_/http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/wp-content/themes/frankfurt/images/locked.gif)
‘All human beings are pregnant’
The bisexual imaginary in Plato’s Symposiumby Stella Sandford / RP 150 (Jul/Aug 2008) / Article
![Item accessible to subscribers or available for single purchase](http://web.archive.org./web/20160323182339im_/http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/wp-content/themes/frankfurt/images/locked.gif)
The incomplete materialism of French materialist feminism
by Alison Stone / RP 145 (Sep/Oct 2007) / ArticleJacques Derrida, 1930–2004
by David Cunningham, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Judith Butler, Simon Critchley, David Macey and David Wood / RP 129 (Jan/Feb 2005) / ObituaryIn an interview with Le Monde published a couple of months before his death at the age of 74 from pancreatic cancer on Friday 9 October 2004, Jacques Derrida confirmed what many already knew, that he was ʻdangerously illʼ, ʻat war against myselfʼ. If questions of ʻsurvivalʼ had always ʻhauntedʼ him, this, he said, took …
![Item accessible to subscribers or available for single purchase](http://web.archive.org./web/20160323182339im_/http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/wp-content/themes/frankfurt/images/locked.gif)
Micropolitics
Leo Bersani and conflicts in contemporary feminismby Rafeeq Hasan / RP 110 (Nov/Dec 2001) / Article
![Item accessible to subscribers or available for single purchase](http://web.archive.org./web/20160323182339im_/http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/wp-content/themes/frankfurt/images/locked.gif)
De Beauvoir’s Hegelianism
Rethinking The Second Sexby Kimberly Hutchings / RP 107 (May/Jun 2001) / Article
The Ethics of Ambiguity is well known as de Beauvoirʼs attempt to formulate an existentialist ethics; that is to say, an ethics premissed on the account of the lack at the heart of any human existence (ʻthe being whose being is not to beʼ) given by Sartre in Being and Nothingness.1 The ʻambiguityʼ of the …
Feminism against ‘the feminine’
by Stella Sandford / RP 105 (Jan/Feb 2001) / ArticleWhilst the distinction between French and Anglo-American feminism was always rather dubious (failing to be accurate, consistent or inclusive at the level of either national origin, language of choice or theoretical commitment; seeming to parcel feminist theory – or at least the feminist theory that mattered – out into two Western blocks from which the …
![Item accessible to subscribers or available for single purchase](http://web.archive.org./web/20160323182339im_/http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/wp-content/themes/frankfurt/images/locked.gif)
Psychoanalysis and politics
Juliet Mitchell then and nowby Lynne Segal / RP 103 (Sep/Oct 2000) / Article