Metaphysics And Gender The Normative Art Of Nature And Its Human Imitations

Author : Michele Schumacher
Publisher : Emmaus Academic
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781645852926

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Metaphysics and Gender: The Normative Art of Nature and Its Human Imitations by Michele Schumacher Pdf

The emergent “science” of transgenderism and related philosophies of gender propose a full-scale inversion of the understanding of God, man, and the created order articulated in classical metaphysics, undermining and parodying both the causality and ontology voiced by Genesis 1:27 (“God created man in His own image, . . . male and female He created them”). Whether through subversive performative identity or by surgical sex change, the divinely made human person is now threatened with abolition and replacement by the self-made man and the man-made woman. In Metaphysics and Gender, Michele M. Schumacher offers a corrective to this distorted and distorting outlook, calling for the recovery of an anthropological vision rooted in recognition of the normative divine “art” of nature and of the likeness—and far greater unlikeness—between divine and human causality. Surveying contemporary transgender trends, Schumacher identifies and excavates their conceptual and ideological foundations in the gender theory of Judith Butler, the existentialist feminism of Simone de Beauvoir, and the atheistic existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre. To the erroneous philosophical presuppositions of these thinkers Schumacher contrasts the metaphysically grounded thought of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, advancing their positive account of the good of creation and of the meaning of ethical norms, human freedom and natural inclinations, and embodiment, and mounting a timely and trenchant defense of the divinely created human person.

Author : Charlotte Witt
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199740413

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The Metaphysics of Gender by Charlotte Witt Pdf

The author develops the claim that gender is uniessential to social individuals. The used terms to express gender essentialism are explained, clarified and defended in the first part of the book. In the second part the author constructs an argument for the claim that gender is uniessential to social individuals.

Author : Christine Battersby
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780745695808

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The Phenomenal Woman by Christine Battersby Pdf

This original book enters the undeveloped territory of feminist metaphysics and offers a bold and unusual contribution to debates about identity, essence and self. Using a diverse range of theories - from Kant to chaos theory, from Kierkegaard to Deleuze, Irigaray, Butler and Oliver Sachs - this book challenges the assumption that metaphysics can remain unchanged by issues of sexual difference.

Author : Charlotte Witt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789048137831

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Feminist Metaphysics by Charlotte Witt Pdf

The present volume is an exciting new collection of original essays by outstanding feminist theorists including Sally Haslanger, Marilyn Frye and Linda Alcoff. Feminist Metaphysics is the first collection of articles addressing metaphysical issues from a feminist perspective. The essays cover central feminist topics including: the ontology of sex and gender, persons, identity and subjectivity, and the relations among experience, ideology and reality. Many of the papers combine cutting-edge feminist theory with contemporary metaphysics and the philosophy of language. The volume is also distinctive in including articles representing both analytic and continental perspectives on metaphysics. The essays are philosophically sophisticated and are primarily intended for a professional audience of philosophers and feminist theorists.

Author : Adriel M. Trott
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Feminist theory
ISBN : 9781474455251

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Aristotle on the Matter of Form by Adriel M. Trott Pdf

Adriel M. Trott challenges the wholesale acceptance of the view that nature operates in Aristotle's work on a craft model, which implies that matter has no power of its own. Instead, she argues for a robust sense of matter in Aristotle in response to feminist critiques. She finds resources for thinking the female's contribution - and the female - on its own terms and not as the contrary to form, or the male.

Author : Sandra Harding,Merrill B. Hintikka †
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003-07-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1402013191

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Discovering Reality by Sandra Harding,Merrill B. Hintikka † Pdf

This collection of essays, first published two decades ago, presents central feminist critiques and analyses of natural and social sciences and their philosophies. This work provides a splendid opportunity for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in philosophy and the social sciences to explore some of the most intriguing and controversial challenges to disciplinary projects and to public policy today.

Author : Douglas A. Vakoch,Sam Mickey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351682398

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Women and Nature? by Douglas A. Vakoch,Sam Mickey Pdf

Women and Nature? Beyond Dualism in Gender, Body, and Environment provides a historical context for understanding the contested relationships between women and nature, and it articulates strategies for moving beyond the dualistic theories and practices that often frame those relationships. In 1974, Françoise d’Eaubonne coined the term "ecofeminism" to raise awareness about interconnections between women’s oppression and nature’s domination in an attempt to liberate women and nature from subordination. Since then, ecofeminism has attracted scholars and activists from various disciplines and positions to assess the relationship between the cultural human and the natural non-human through gender reconsiderations. The contributors to this volume present critical and constructive perspectives on ecofeminism throughout its history, from the beginnings of ecofeminism in the 1970s through to contemporary and emerging developments in the field, drawing on animal studies, postcolonialism, film studies, transgender studies, and political ecology. This interdisciplinary and international collection of essays demonstrates the ongoing relevance of ecofeminism as a way of understanding and responding to the complex interactions between genders, bodies, and the natural environment. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of ecofeminism as well as those involved in environmental studies and gender studies more broadly.

Author : Yannis Hamilakis,Mark Pluciennik,Sarah Tarlow
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461506935

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Thinking through the Body by Yannis Hamilakis,Mark Pluciennik,Sarah Tarlow Pdf

What is the archaeology of the body and how can it change the way we experience the past? This book, one of the first to appear on the subject, records and evaluates the emergence of this new direction of cross-disciplinary research, and examines the potential of incorporating some of its insights into archaeology. It will be of interest to students, researchers, and teachers in archaeology, as well as in cognate disciplines such as anthropology and history.

Author : Deborah Rosenfelt,Judith Newton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136204494

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Feminist Criticism and Social Change (RLE Feminist Theory) by Deborah Rosenfelt,Judith Newton Pdf

This lively and controversial collection of essays sets out to theorize and practice a ‘materialist-feminist’ criticism of literature and culture. Such a criticism is based on the view that the material conditions in which men and women live are central to an understanding of culture and society. It emphasises the relation of gender to other categories of analysis, such as class and race, and considers the connection between ideology and cultural practice, and the ways in which all relations of power change with changing social and economic conditions. By presenting a wide range of work by major feminist scholars, this anthology in effect defines as well as illustrates the materialist-feminist tendency in current literary criticism. The essays in the first part of the book examine race, ideology, and the literary canon and explore the ways in which other critical discourse, such as those of deconstruction and French feminism, might be useful to a feminist and materialist criticism. The second part of the book contains examples of such criticism in practice, with studies of individual works, writers and ideas. An introduction by the editors situates the collected essays in relation both to one another and to a shared materialist/feminist project. Feminist Criticism and Social Change demonstrates the important contribution of materialist-feminist criticism to our understanding of literature and society, and fulfils a crucial need among those concerned with gender and its relation to criticism.

Author : Justin Oakley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Emotions
ISBN : 0415093414

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Morality and the Emotions by Justin Oakley Pdf

Author : Michele M. Schumacher
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802812945

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Women in Christ by Michele M. Schumacher Pdf

The challenge of promoting the "new feminism" has barely been addressed since it was first launched by Pope John Paul II in his 1995 encyclical Evangelium vitae. The thirteen contributors in this book, all outstanding international scholars, take up this task, together laying the necessary theoretical foundation for the new feminism. These chapters articulate an integral philosophical and theological understanding of persons that moves beyond patriarchy on the one hand and traditional feminism on the other. Central to the new perspective offered here is the biblical revelation of the human person - man and woman - in Christ, a vision that directs women beyond the "male" standard against which they have too often been measured. Far from constraining women to an "eternal essence," the dynamic view presented here encourages each woman to realize herself in perfect Christian freedom.

Author : Adriel M. Trott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Feminist criticism
ISBN : 1474476872

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Aristotle on the Matter of Form by Adriel M. Trott Pdf

Adriel M. Trott argues for an interdependent relationship of form and matter in Aristotle's metaphysics. Responding to feminist critiques from Judith Butler and Luce Irigary, she finds resources for thinking the female's contribution - and the female - on its own terms and not as the contrary to form, or the male.

Author : Emily Thomas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781316832684

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Early Modern Women on Metaphysics by Emily Thomas Pdf

The work of women philosophers in the early modern period has traditionally been overlooked, yet their writing on topics such as reality, time, mind and matter holds valuable lessons for our understanding of metaphysics and its history. This volume of new essays explores the work of nine key female figures: Bathsua Makin, Anna Maria van Schurman, Elisabeth of Bohemia, Margaret Cavendish, Anne Conway, Damaris Cudworth Masham, Mary Astell, Catharine Trotter Cockburn, and Émilie Du Châtelet. Investigating issues from eternity to free will and from body to natural laws, the essays uncover long-neglected perspectives and demonstrate their importance for philosophical debates, both then and now. Combining careful philosophical analysis with discussion of the intellectual and historical context of each thinker, they will set the agenda for future enquiry and will appeal to scholars and students of the history of metaphysics, science, religion and feminism.

Author : Beatriz Vollmer de Marcellus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781413449341

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On the Ontological Differentiation of Human Gender by Beatriz Vollmer de Marcellus Pdf

In the Western Hemisphere, gender issues have become an integral part of our lives. Few people realize, however, that they are based on profound philosophical presuppositions. After an extensive literary critique on the subject, Beatriz Vollmer analyzes the different philosophical currents, which have taken gender issues and feminism in so many directions. As her doctoral dissertation, this work has innovative views regarding the complementarity and asymmetry of the sexes, as well as a detailed philosophical explanation of equality, identity, difference and sameness in the context of male and female. Perhaps her greatest contribution to this subject is the new perspective she gives to the sex-gender distinction.

Author : Emanuela Bianchi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028534779

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Is Feminist Philosophy Philosophy? by Emanuela Bianchi Pdf

Drawing attention to the vexed relationship between feminist theory and philosophy, Is Feminist Philosophy Philosophy? demonstrates the spectrum of significant work being done at this contested boundary. The volume offers clear statements by seventeen distinguished scholars as well as a full range of philosophical approaches; it also presents feminist philosophers in conversation both as feminists and as philosophers, making the book accessible to a wide audience.