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Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy

Hypatia is a forum for cutting edge work in feminist philosophy. Since its inception in the mid-1980s, Hypatia has been a catalyst for broadening and refining feminist philosophy as well as an invaluable resource for those who teach in this area. Feminist philosophy arises out of diverse traditions and methods within philosophy and is also richly interdisciplinary in orientation.

Hypatia’s commitment to the development of feminist philosophy entails that, in all its policies and practices, Hypatia actively reflect and engage the diversity within feminism itself, the diverse experiences and situations of women, and the diverse forms that gender takes across the globe. Promoting diversity within feminist philosophy and philosophy in general is thus one of Hypatia’s core objectives.

We are committed to publishing articles that are broadly accessible. Hypatia serves as a resource for the wider women's studies community, for philosophers generally, and for all those interested in philosophical issues raised by feminism.

JUST OUT! Volume 27, Issue 2: Featuring a Special Cluster on “Contesting the Norms of Embodiment” edited by Debra Bergoffen and Gail Weiss.

The essays in this cluster, “Contesting the Norms of Embodiment,” continue the challenges to traditional ethical paradigms begun in our Hypatia Special Issue Ethics of Embodiment (vol. 26.3, Summer 2011). They examine the lived relationship between the body and moral life by paying special attention to the ways that current norms of embodiment and bodily comportment produce normalizing rather than liberating ethical principles.

Our other recent clusters are a FEAST Cluster on Feminist Critiques of Evolutionary Psychology and another cluster on The Myths of Maternity, both of which appear in the previous issue. For a full list of clusters and special issues, click here.

COMING SOON! Volume 27, Issue 3: Special Issue on "Animal Others" edited by Lori Gruen and Kari Weil

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 remain relatively unrecognized. This special issue of Hypatia helps remedy this by showcasing the best new feminist work on nonhuman animals that helps to rethink and redefine (or undefine) categories such as animal-woman-nature-body. The issue provides 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.

Hypatia has had a presence on Facebook for quite some time (thanks to Lori Gruen!), and we are making a concerted effort to use our Facebook group to greater effect. Since our Facebook group was created prior to a big change in Facebook group format and features, we have recently been transitioned to an "archived" group (don't worry, we can still use it), in the process of which we sadly lost some members. We encourage Facebook users out there to join (or rejoin) our group so that you can conveniently keep abreast of news and announcements from the journal and our group members.

Our editorial term ends in June 2013 and the Associate Editors are in the process of searching for a new editorial team. They expect to make this appointment by the end of the year (late Fall 2012), so we are suspending the review of any new special issue proposals until the new editorial team has been identified and can participate in the review process. The next review cycle will be Winter 2013, submission deadline February 1st, 2013.

The editors:
Alison Wylie (editor)
Linda Martín Alcoff and Ann Cudd (area co-editors)
Sharyn Clough (book review editor)

CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue on "Interstices: Women of Color Feminist Philosophy"

Volume 29, Number 1, Winter 2014
Guest Editors: Kristie Dotson and Donna-Dale Marcano

Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy seeks papers for a special issue on women of color feminist philosophy. We welcome feminist philosophical scholarship with the aim of interrogating and/or demonstrating work created within the terrain of these three terms- women of color, feminist, philosophy. As the profession of philosophy has witnessed a small emergence of women of color who are pursuing academic degrees in philosophy as well as those who find philosophy useful in the service of other types of research and activism, women of color feminist philosophers still struggle to negotiate political and/or academic spaces often acknowledged as “interstitial” or “liminal.” And, yet, when one considers that within the past decade that younger (i.e. newer) feminist scholars now have access to successful and now classic works of a handful of senior feminist philosophers of color, one can instantly recognize that we are at a threshold of expanding the purview of what it means to philosophize as a woman of color feminist philosopher. This latter circumstance points to a significant transformation. We are at a juncture that deserves celebration as well as serious contemplation on the presence or lack thereof of women of color feminist philosophical work. To this end, we encourage new essays that explore the promises of scholarship as well as problems or objectives and/or methodologies pertaining to women of color feminist philosophy.

By women of color feminist philosophy, we mean intellectual work done by feminists who take women of color as their primary philosophical touchstones and/or scholarly focus. As such, we invite papers on a wide range of topics. We look forward to new insights concerning the identity and/or existence of “women of color” feminist philosophical scholarship as well as whether and what philosophy and philosophical tools aid or prohibit pursuing and addressing women of color feminist work. We also encourage essays on the process of including women of color’s voices into one’s own academic work. In particular, we hope that this issue will stimulate articulation of the diverse truths inherent to the diversity of women included in the moniker women of color, as it is understood within and against the American context or post-racial, post-feminist sensibilities. To this end, we encourage contributors to explore integrating resources from their particular racial, ethnic, and/or cultural background with an attention to the hazards or victories of such an exploration. We welcome essays ranging from ethical and social political explorations to metaphysical and epistemological concerns. We invite discussion of ways in which the label “women of color” translates and/or does not translate in contexts outside the US as well as whether and how it can be re-appropriated and transformed within international arenas. We also encourage explorations of the relationship and distinctions between women of color feminist philosophy and critical race feminism or transnational feminism including articulations of what makes a work philosophical and how it becomes so.

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. In addition to articles, we invite submissions for our Musings section. These should not exceed 3,000 words, including footnotes and references, and unless they are invited contributions, they will be subject to external review. For details please see Hypatia's submission guidelines

Please submit your paper to manuscript central. When you submit, make sure to select “Interstices” as your manuscript type, and also send an email to the guest editors indicating the title of the paper you have submitted: Kristie Dotson: dotsonk@msu.edu, Donna-Dale Marcano: Donna.Marcano@trincoll.edu

CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue on "New Conversations in Feminist Disability Studies"

Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy is seeking new work for a special issue on disability with the general theme of New Conversations in Feminist Disability Studies. In 2001 Hypatia published its first special issue on feminist philosophy and disability. Since that time, there has been a great deal of disability scholarship in feminist and queer theory. A new special issue provides the opportunity to consider interventions, innovations, and transformations in feminist theory occasioned by theories and concepts that animate feminist disability studies, disability studies, queer disability studies/crip theory.

Within philosophy, much of the discussion of disability has occurred in the areas of bioethics, ethics of care, and social and political philosophy. This work remains crucial for furthering philosophical understanding of disability. In addition to these areas of philosophy, this special issue seeks to provide a space for new feminist philosophical analyses of disability, as well as new feminist, queer, and feminist queer crip conversations between scholarship on disability in ethics and social and political philosophy and scholarship on disability in epistemology, science studies, environmental philosophy, ecofeminism, queer ecology, aesthetics, critical race theory, metaphysics, phenomenology, and queer theory. Papers on any topic pertaining to feminist or feminist queer crip analyses of disability are welcome, including (but not limited to) the following:

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 manuscript central. When you submit, make sure to select “Disability” as your manuscript type, and also send an email to the guest editor, Kim Q. Hall: hallki@appstate.edu, indicating the title of the paper you have submitted.

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	Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy Hypatia is a forum for cutting edge work in feminist philosophy. Since its inception in the mid-1980s, Hypatia has been a catalyst for broadening and refining feminist philosophy as well as an invaluable resource for those who teach in this area. Feminist philosophy arises out of diverse traditions and methods within philosophy and is also richly interdisciplinary in orientation. Hypatia’s commitment to the development of feminist philosophy entails that, in all its policies and practices, Hypatia actively reflect and engage the diversity within feminism itself, the diverse experiences and situations of women, and the diverse forms that gender takes across the globe. Promoting diversity within feminist philosophy and philosophy in general is thus one of Hypatia’s core objectives. We are committed to publishing articles that are broadly accessible. Hypatia serves as a resource for the wider women's studies community, for philosophers generally, and for all those interested in philosophical issues raised by feminism. Hypatia Publishing News Hypatia on Facebook Special Issue Proposals and Calls for Papers HYPATIA PUBLISHING NEWS JUST OUT! Volume 27, Issue 2: Featuring a Special Cluster on “Contesting the Norms of Embodiment” edited by Debra Bergoffen and Gail Weiss. Contesting the Norms of Embodiment Edited by Debra Bergoffen and Gail Weiss The essays in this cluster, “Contesting the Norms of Embodiment,” continue the challenges to traditional ethical paradigms begun in our Hypatia Special Issue Ethics of Embodiment (vol. 26.3, Summer 2011). They examine the lived relationship between the body and moral life by paying special attention to the ways that current norms of embodiment and bodily comportment produce normalizing rather than liberating ethical principles. Read the editors' entire introduction and view the table of contents (and take a look back at our Special Issue from Summer 2011 on the Ethics of Embodiment.) Our other recent clusters are a FEAST Cluster on Feminist Critiques of Evolutionary Psychology and another cluster on The Myths of Maternity, both of which appear in the previous issue. For a full list of clusters and special issues, click here. COMING SOON! Volume 27, Issue 3: Special Issue on "Animal Others" edited by Lori Gruen and Kari Weil Animal Others Edited by Lori Gruen and Kari Weil 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 remain relatively unrecognized. This special issue of Hypatia helps remedy this by showcasing the best new feminist work on nonhuman animals that helps to rethink and redefine (or undefine) categories such as animal-woman-nature-body. The issue provides 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. Read the editors' entire introduction and view the table of contents HYPATIA ON FACEBOOK Hypatia has had a presence on Facebook for quite some time (thanks to Lori Gruen!), and we are making a concerted effort to use our Facebook group to greater effect. Since our Facebook group was created prior to a big change in Facebook group format and features, we have recently been transitioned to an "archived" group (don't worry, we can still use it), in the process of which we sadly lost some members. We encourage Facebook users out there to join (or rejoin) our group so that you can conveniently keep abreast of news and announcements from the journal and our group members. You can request to become a member of our Facebook group by visiting us here You can "like" us on Facebook by clicking here: SPECIAL ISSUE PROPOSALS AND CALLS FOR PAPERS Special Issue Proposal Submissions have been suspended until February 2013. Our editorial term ends in June 2013 and the Associate Editors are in the process of searching for a new editorial team. They expect to make this appointment by the end of the year (late Fall 2012), so we are suspending the review of any new special issue proposals until the new editorial team has been identified and can participate in the review process. The next review cycle will be Winter 2013, submission deadline February 1st, 2013. The editors: Alison Wylie (editor) Linda Martín Alcoff and Ann Cudd (area co-editors) Sharyn Clough (book review editor) CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue on "Interstices: Women of Color Feminist Philosophy" August 15, 2012 submission deadline Volume 29, Number 1, Winter 2014 Guest Editors: Kristie Dotson and Donna-Dale Marcano Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy seeks papers for a special issue on women of color feminist philosophy. We welcome feminist philosophical scholarship with the aim of interrogating and/or demonstrating work created within the terrain of these three terms- women of color, feminist, philosophy. As the profession of philosophy has witnessed a small emergence of women of color who are pursuing academic degrees in philosophy as well as those who find philosophy useful in the service of other types of research and activism, women of color feminist philosophers still struggle to negotiate political and/or academic spaces often acknowledged as “interstitial” or “liminal.” And, yet, when one considers that within the past decade that younger (i.e. newer) feminist scholars now have access to successful and now classic works of a handful of senior feminist philosophers of color, one can instantly recognize that we are at a threshold of expanding the purview of what it means to philosophize as a woman of color feminist philosopher. This latter circumstance points to a significant transformation. We are at a juncture that deserves celebration as well as serious contemplation on the presence or lack thereof of women of color feminist philosophical work. To this end, we encourage new essays that explore the promises of scholarship as well as problems or objectives and/or methodologies pertaining to women of color feminist philosophy. By women of color feminist philosophy, we mean intellectual work done by feminists who take women of color as their primary philosophical touchstones and/or scholarly focus. As such, we invite papers on a wide range of topics. We look forward to new insights concerning the identity and/or existence of “women of color” feminist philosophical scholarship as well as whether and what philosophy and philosophical tools aid or prohibit pursuing and addressing women of color feminist work. We also encourage essays on the process of including women of color’s voices into one’s own academic work. In particular, we hope that this issue will stimulate articulation of the diverse truths inherent to the diversity of women included in the moniker women of color, as it is understood within and against the American context or post-racial, post-feminist sensibilities. To this end, we encourage contributors to explore integrating resources from their particular racial, ethnic, and/or cultural background with an attention to the hazards or victories of such an exploration. We welcome essays ranging from ethical and social political explorations to metaphysical and epistemological concerns. We invite discussion of ways in which the label “women of color” translates and/or does not translate in contexts outside the US as well as whether and how it can be re-appropriated and transformed within international arenas. We also encourage explorations of the relationship and distinctions between women of color feminist philosophy and critical race feminism or transnational feminism including articulations of what makes a work philosophical and how it becomes so. Deadline for submission: August 15, 2012 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. In addition to articles, we invite submissions for our Musings section. These should not exceed 3,000 words, including footnotes and references, and unless they are invited contributions, they will be subject to external review. For details please see Hypatia's submission guidelines Please submit your paper to manuscript central. When you submit, make sure to select “Interstices” as your manuscript type, and also send an email to the guest editors indicating the title of the paper you have submitted: Kristie Dotson: dotsonk@msu.edu, Donna-Dale Marcano: Donna.Marcano@trincoll.edu CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue on "New Conversations in Feminist Disability Studies" August 15, 2013 submission deadline Volume 30, Issue 1, Winter 2015 Edited by Kim Q. Hall Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy is seeking new work for a special issue on disability with the general theme of New Conversations in Feminist Disability Studies. In 2001 Hypatia published its first special issue on feminist philosophy and disability. Since that time, there has been a great deal of disability scholarship in feminist and queer theory. A new special issue provides the opportunity to consider interventions, innovations, and transformations in feminist theory occasioned by theories and concepts that animate feminist disability studies, disability studies, queer disability studies/crip theory. Within philosophy, much of the discussion of disability has occurred in the areas of bioethics, ethics of care, and social and political philosophy. This work remains crucial for furthering philosophical understanding of disability. In addition to these areas of philosophy, this special issue seeks to provide a space for new feminist philosophical analyses of disability, as well as new feminist, queer, and feminist queer crip conversations between scholarship on disability in ethics and social and political philosophy and scholarship on disability in epistemology, science studies, environmental philosophy, ecofeminism, queer ecology, aesthetics, critical race theory, metaphysics, phenomenology, and queer theory. Papers on any topic pertaining to feminist or feminist queer crip analyses of disability are welcome, including (but not limited to) the following: Disability and Phenomenology Disability and epistemologies of ignorance Disability, gender, race, class, and sexuality Disability, national identity, and nationalism Disability and/as “assemblage” Disability and the question of “the animal” Disability and posthumanism Disability, ethics, and politics Disability and globalization Access, accommodation, quality of life Bodies and borders Able-bodiedness and able-mindedness Disability and environmentalism, ecology, ecofeminism, and/or queer ecology Disability, feminist materialism, and “agential realism” The relationship between impairment and disability identity Illness, disease, impairment, bodily limitation, pain, failure Disability and the meaning and/or experience of sex and gender, transgender, and intersex Disability and orientation/ reorientation/ disorientation of understandings of time and space Disability, feminist materialism, and “agential realism” Disability and critical analyses of science, scientific knowledge, nature, and human nature Feminist/queer/crip perspectives on the Occupy Movement and other global movements for economic, environmental, social, and political justice The meaning of art and aesthetic concepts through the lens of disability Rethinking the canon of western philosophy through the lens of feminist disability studies Deadline for submission: August 15, 2013. 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 manuscript central. When you submit, make sure to select “Disability” as your manuscript type, and also send an email to the guest editor, Kim Q. Hall: hallki@appstate.edu, indicating the title of the paper you have submitted. Follow this link for the news archive.
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hypatia

a journal of feminist philosophy

Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy

simpson center for the humanities | university of washington hypatia@uw.edu | 206.616.2789

simpson center for the humanities | university of washington
hypatia@uw.edu | 206.616.2789