Feminist interpretations of G.W.F. Hegel

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Author:

Mills, Patricia Jagentowicz, 1944-

ISBN:

9780271014906

9780271014913

Publication Information:

University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c1996.

Physical Description:

xiii, 352 p. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Re-reading the canon

Series Title:

Re-reading the canon

Contents:

Preface / Nancy Tuana -- Introduction / Patricia Jagentowicz Mills -- 1. On Hegel, Women, and Irony / Seyla Benhabib -- 2. The Eternal Irony of the Community / Luce Irigaray -- 3. Hegel's Antigone / Patricia Jagentowicz Mills -- 4. Lucinde's Shame: Hegel, Sensuous Woman, and the Law / David Farrell Krell -- 5. Hegel, Sexual Ethics, and the Oppression of Women: Comments on Krell's "Lucinde's Shame" / Frances Olsen -- 6. Reading in Detail: Hegel's Aesthetics and the Feminine / Naomi Schor -- 7. Fetal Attraction: Hegel's An-aesthetics of Gender / Eric O. Clarke -- 8. Hegel: Man, Physiology, and Fate / Mary O'Brien -- 9. Hegel, Marriage, and the Standpoint of Contract / Carole Pateman -- 10. Has Hegel Anything to Say to Feminists? / Heidi M. Ravven -- 11. Critical Relations in Hegel: Woman, Family, and the Divine / Shari Neller Starrett -- 12. Let's Spit on Hegel / Carla Lonzi -- 13. Hegelian Silences and the Politics of Communication: A Feminist Appropriation / Alison L. Brown.

Personal Subject:

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.

Subject Term:

Feminist theory.

Added Author:

Mills, Patricia Jagentowicz, 1944-

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Summary

A pivotal figure in critical theory and the modern/postmodern debates, G. W. F. Hegel is the subject of differing feminist critiques. Going beyond and behind Simone de Beauvoir's creative appropriation of Hegel in The Second Sex , the essays gathered together here think both with and against the grain of Hegel's dialectical theory through the lens of gender issues found in his philosophy. Some of the authors focus on prominent passages on woman and the feminine in Hegel's work, while others argue that it is interpretations of the margins of his text that are most telling. Hegel articulates one of the central questions with which political feminists are concerned: how to conceptualize identity and difference. A point of contention among the authors is whether or not Hegel's speculative system, with its "reconciliation" of identity and difference, "answers" this question. Contributors include the French philosopher Luce Irigaray, the Italian feminist Carla Lonzi, and the Canadian theoretician Mary O'Brien, along with Seyla Benhabib, Patricia Jagentowicz Mills, David Farrell Krell, Frances Olsen, Naomi Schor, Eric O. Clarke, Carole Pateman, Heidi M. Ravven, Alison L. Brown, and Shari Neller Starrett. Read together, the articles stress the transgressive nature of feminist theory as it challenges disciplinary boundaries; they are the articulation of the many different strategies and positions of the "vigorous debate" that defines feminist theory today.