Day 5 - Women's Month - Hypatia

The skies are bright in merry ole England this morning.  The air is still and the market is on in the High Street. 

Today, I think I'll take out some back-copies of Hypatia and read what I've failed to read before.  Hypatia has, for me, been hit or miss. Sometimes, I find things in it that are really relevant, interesting and thought provoking.  At other times, it seems like it caters to the same group of thinkers who all generally agree.  I'm not sure it always fosters a good debate.  That said, it's also given space to feminist philosophers in a way that no other publication has.  We have to respect it for that. 

Currently, they have a couple of CFPs out.  Check them out here: http://depts.washington.edu/hypatia/index.html

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Ethics of Embodiment


Volume 26, Number 3, Summer 2011

Guest Editors: Debra Bergoffen and Gail Weiss
This Hypatia Special Issue will showcase the diversity of ethical approaches to embodiment. Despite the centrality of the body in discussions of gender, race, class, religion, ethnicity, and ability and their respective intersections, the implications of feminist analyses of the body as a ground for ethical theorizing, as the subject of ethical demands, and as the very means by which these demands are articulated, are yet to be the subject of a volume or journal issue. We seek to remedy this important gap by calling for original essays by feminists who draw from different philosophical traditions and practices to develop the ethical implications of human and/or nonhuman embodied experience.
Contributors may wish to consider such questions as:

•How does bodily vulnerability inform ethical demands?
•What ethical traditions offer the most (or least) productive resources for considering the ethical implications of embodiment?
•How might a focus on embodiment re-align existing ethical theories and practices (e.g. medical practices and public policy)?
•What challenges does an emphasis upon the primacy of embodied experience pose to traditional, cognitive-based, ethical theorizing?

•How might considerations of nonhuman forms of embodiment affect ethical understandings of human embodiment (and vice versa)?
•What current bodily norms are challenged by an ethics of embodiment?

•How can the suffering of people who have been socially, politically, medically, and/or legally disenfranchised be alleviated by considering the ethical dimensions of the body?

•How would an embodied ethics contribute to new ways of thinking about space, time, and/or intersubjectivity?

•How might an ethics, grounded in the body, affect and transform both individual and collective lives?

Deadline for submissions: March 15, 2010.

Papers should be no more than 8000 words, inclusive of notes and bibliography, prepared for anonymous review, and accompanied by an abstract of no more than 200 words. For details please see Hypatia's submission guidelines.

Please submit your paper to: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/hypa. When you submit, make sure to select "Ethics of Embodiment" as your manuscript type, and also send an email to the guest editor(s) notifying them of the title of the paper you've submitted:

Debra Bergoffen: dbergoff@gmu.edu

Gail Weiss: gweiss@gwu.edu
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Animal Others

Volume 27, Number 3, Summer 2012

Guest Editors: Lori Gruen and Kari Weil

We are soliciting papers for a special issue of Hypatia on Animal Others. Scholarship in "Animal Studies" has grown considerably over the last few years, yet the feminist insights that much of this work borrows from and builds on remains relatively unrecognized. This special issue of Hypatia will remedy this by showcasing the best new feminist work on nonhuman animals that will help to rethink and redefine (or undefine) categories such as animal-woman-nature-body. The issue will provide the opportunity to re-examine concerns that are central to both feminist theory and animal studies and promote avenues of thought that can move us beyond pernicious forms of othering that undergird much human and non-human suffering.

We are interested in submissions from a wide range of feminist perspectives. Possible topics might include, but are not limited to:

• non-human animals and intimacy/affection/love/domestication

• gendered ethics and the politics of animal rights discourse and activism

• racial, gendered, and cultural conflicts about eating animal bodies/using animals

• animals and “nature”/ animals in “culture”

• the significance of gender differences in the study and/or care of non-human animals

• violence against women and violence against animals

• material feminism and companion species

• pet love and the boundaries of kin, kind, and sex

• technologies of seeing or the gaze of/on sex and species

• otherness, empathy, and animal care ethics

• the woman and the animal—pitfalls and strategies of essentialism.

Deadline for submission of papers for consideration in the Special Issue of Hypatia: March 15, 2011.

Papers should be no more than 8000 words, inclusive of notes and bibliography, prepared for anonymous review, and accompanied by an abstract of no more than 200 words. For details please see Hypatia's submission guidelines.

Please submit your paper to: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/hypa. When you submit, make sure to select "Animal Others" as your manuscript type, and also send an email to the guest editor(s) notifying them of the title of the paper you've submitted:

Lori Gruen: lgruen@wesleyan.edu

Kari Weil: kweil@wesleyan.edu