hypatia

a journal of feminist philosophy

  
   
     
 
Book Review Archive

Archived Online Book Reviews 2000 – 2004

Arp, Kristana. The bonds of freedom: Simone de Beauvoir’s existentialist ethics. Chicago: Open Court, 2001. Reviewed by Linnell Secomb.  

Brison, Susan. Aftermath: Violence and the remaking of a self. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. Reviewed by Ann J. Cahill.  

Cahill, Ann J. Rethinking rape. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001. Reviewed by Alisa L. Carse. 

Calhoun, Cheshire. Feminism, the family, and the politics of the closet: Lesbian and gay displacement. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Reviewed by Ashby Sharpe.  

Chanter, Tina. Time, death, and the feminine: Levinas with Heidegger. Standford: Stanford University Press, 2001. Reviewed by Nancy J. Holland.  

DesAutels, Peggy and Joanne Waugh, eds. Feminists doing ethics. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001. Reviewed by Linda Williams.  

Diprose, Rosalyn. Corporeal generosity: On giving with Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas. Albany: SUNY Press, 2002. Reviewed by Dorothea Olkowski.  

Duran, Jane. Worlds of knowing: Global feminist epistemologies. New York: Routledge, 2001. Reviewed by Edrie Sobstyl. 

Eisenstein, Zillah. Manmade breast cancers. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001. Reviewed by Tina Richardson. 

Frankel, Jonathan, ed. Jews and gender: The challenge to hierarchy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Reviewed by Claire Katz. 

Gunther-Canada, Wendy. Rebel writer: Mary Wollstonecraft and enlightenment politics. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2001. Reviewed by Ruth Abbey.  

Harris, Leonard, Scott Pratt, and Anne Waters, eds. American philosophies: An anthology. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002. Reviewed by Nancy McHugh.  

Heldke, Lisa. Exotic appetites: Ruminations of a food adventurer. New York: Routledge, 2003. Reviewed by Alison Bailey.  

Inglis, Laura Lyn and Peter K. Steinfeld. Old dead white men’s philosophy. New York: Humanity Books, 2000. Reviewed by Alison Stone. 

Irigaray, Luce. The way of love. London: Continuum Press. Reviewed by Karen MacKendrick. 

Katz, Claire Elise. Levinas, Judaism, and the feminine: The silent footsteps of Rebecca. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. Reviewed by Ruth Groenhout.  

La Caze, Marguerite. The analytic imaginary. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002. Reviewed by Jane Duran.  

Landes, Joan B. Visualizing the nation: Gender, representation, and revolution in eighteenth-century France. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001. Reviewed by Wendy Gunther-Canada. 

McLaren, Margaret A. Feminism, Foucault, and embodied subjectivity. Albany: SUNY Press, 2002. Reviewed by Dianna Taylor.  

Miroiu, Mihaela. The road to autonomy: Feminist political theories. Iasi: Polirom, 2004. Reviewed by Anca Gheaus.  

Moya, Paula M.L. Learning from experience: Minority identities, multicultural struggles. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Reviewed by Rosaura Sánchez. 

Nagel, Mechthild. Masking the abject: A genealogy of play. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2002. Reviewed by Allen Dunn.  

Nelson, Hilde Lindemann. Damaged identities, narrative repair. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001. Reviewed by Abraham P. Schwab. 

Noddings, Nel. Starting at home: Caring and social policy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Reviewed by Maurice Hamington.  

Nussbaum, Martha. Upheavals of thought: The intelligence of emotions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Reviewed by Claudia Moscovici.  

O’Connor, Peg. Oppression and responsibility: A Wittgensteinian approach to social practices and moral theory. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003. Reviewed by Wendy Lynne Lee.  

Parks, Jennifer A. No place like home? Feminist ethics and home health care. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. Reviewed by Leslie Francis.  

Peterson, Anna L. Being human: Ethics, environment, and our place in the world. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. Review by Christopher J. Preston.  

Pratt, Scott L. Native pragmatism: Rethinking the roots of American philosophy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. Reviewed by Jerry H. Gill. 

Seshadri-Crooks, Kalpana. Desiring whiteness: A Lacanian analysis of race. London: Routledge, 2000. Reviewed by Laura Hengehold.  

Spelman, Elizabeth V. Repair: The impulse to restore in a fragile world. Boston: Beacon Press, 2002. Reviewed by Falguni A. Sheth.  

Soble, Alan. Pornography, sex, and feminism. New York: Prometheus Books, 2002. Reviewed by Linda Williams. 

Taylor, Barbara. Mary Wollstonecraft and the feminist imagination. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Reviewed by Louise Joy.  

Tuana, Nancy and Sandra Morgen, eds. Engendering rationalities. Albany: SUNY Press, 2001. Reviewed by Jennifer Faust.  

Willet, Cynthia. The soul of justice. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001. Reviewed by John Stuhr.  

Zinn, Howard, ed. The power of nonviolence: Writings by advocates of peace. Boston: Beacon Press, 2002. Reviewed by Dorothy Rogers.