Usual apologies for cross-posting, but this may be of interest...
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**PHILOSOPHY AND 'THE FEMININE':
A CONFERENCE ON FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY**
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Vanderbilt University, 29-31 January 1999
Featured Speakers: Drucilla Cornell, Naomi Scheman, Iris Marion Young
Philosophy in all its forms has long regarded its work as gender
neutral. More recently, feminist philosophers have challenged this
conception. Can we assume neutrality if thinking beings are also
embodied, gendered beings? But if bodies are what matter, does the
fact that philosophy is largely practiced by men make philosophy a
masculine discipline? Or is 'masculine' merely a term of privilege
loosely grouped with rationality and argument, agon and the polis, and
'feminine' a term of occlusion similarly grouped with intuition and
persuasion, eros and the oikos (or chora)? Why should nature, or
truth, or fortune be a woman? Our conference will be a forum for all
those interested in continuing to explore such questions as they arise
in any philosophical field at any point in its history.
We intend this conference to be an expression of the plurality of
women's voices in philosophy, and we hope to create a setting that
encourages dialogue across, as well as within, various traditions. Our
goal is to provide a distinctly feminist voice, whereby we might
explore the ways in which the boundaries that continue to exist among
those engaged in feminist pursuits are themselves artifacts of the way
traditional philosophy has closed out the kinds of concerns feminists
are now bringing forward.
** CALL FOR PAPERS **
We welcome papers or detailed panel proposals on all related topics.
Individual papers should have a reading time of no more than 20
minutes; proposals for panels should include a list of panel
participants, statement of theme, and abstracts from each of the
participants. The author's or participants' name(s) and e-mail
address(es) should appear on the title page only, to allow for
anonymous reviewing. Please indicate also on the title page whether
you are willing to participate in any of the following ways: speaking
at a round table discussion, chairing a session, commenting on another
paper.
Please send two copies of submissions to:
Susanne Goethals and Jennifer Holt
Department of Philosophy, 111 Furman Hall
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN, 37240.
NEW DEADLINE for submissions is October 30, 1998.
For further information, contact:
-- Susanne Goethals, (615) 228-2488, [log in to unmask]
-- Jennifer Holt, (615) 383-4329, [log in to unmask]
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Susanne C. Goethals Office Ph: (615) 322-2637 Department of
Philosophy Fax: (615) 343-7259 111 Furman
Hall [log in to unmask] Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37240
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