hypatia

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The 2nd FEAST special issue of Hypatia will be structured around the topics of the keynotes and panels from the 2009 FEAST conference. Submissions bearing on these themes are welcome. The special issue will appear in Fall 2011 and will be edited by Diana Tietjens Meyers. The 2009 FEAST program, which features two keynotes and two panels, will set the themes of the special issue. Ofelia Schutte will be giving a keynote entitled "Engaging Latin American Feminisms Today: Methods, Theory, Practice"; keywords for her papers are ‘ethnicity’ and ‘globalization’. Joan Tronto’s keynote title is “Care Ethics from the Bottom Up: Caring as a Global Issue”; keywords for her paper are ‘care’ (with emphasis on post-colonial care ethics) and ‘global justice’. Chris Cuomo, Trish Glazebrook, and Chaone Mallory will speak on environmental feminism. Carla Fehr, Letitia Meynell, and Anya Plutynski will speak on evolutionary psychology. Expanded versions of FEAST conference papers are welcome, but submitted papers need not have been presented at the 2009 FEAST conference.

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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

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Hypatia seeks papers for a special issue on Crossing Borders featuring important new feminist philosophical scholarship on the issues, theories, and strategies of feminist response to the prospects and problems of globalized relations. Globalization offers many challenges and promises for feminist theory. Feminists in philosophy and related disciplines have responded with a growing literature on global, transnational, post-colonial, and neo-colonial feminisms. Even while social and political borders appear more porous with global communication and transportation, some nation-states are issuing ever more stringent immigration policies or refusing to enter global agreements for the prosecution of transnational crimes. Globalization invites and implores feminist theorists and activists to look beyond national and even regional concerns to scrutinize the implications of theory and action on the lives of women across borders of nation-states, cultural and religious ideologies, global class, race and ethnicity, and other boundaries or margins that might be seen as dividing us in our differences. Submissions from an array of feminist philosophical perspectives addressing topics related to this theme are welcome.
Possible topics include:
• Issues of persons literally crossing borders such as immigration, human trafficking, global care chains, transnational adoption;
• Issues that themselves cross borders of nation-state jurisdiction such as women and Human Security, War, International Law, and Crimes against Humanity, Violence against Women, War rape and genocide;
• Feminist theories crossing borders: Third world feminisms & Transnational feminisms, Neocolonialism and feminism, Post-Colonial feminisms;
• Intersection between feminist theory and Border Studies: feminist theoretical responses to Border studies & its canonical texts, Border Studies &Transnational feminism, philosophical narratives of borders in the wake of globalization;
• Reconfiguring political philosophy through feminism: Global feminist coalitions, transnational feminist solidarities, feminism and Global Justice, transnational cyber feminist activism or communities.

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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.

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There has been a great deal of work in the natural and social sciences on various aspects of climate change, and there is increasing acknowledgement in the literature that extreme weather events and ecological disasters tend to have greater negative impacts on women, girls, and those who lack economic and social power. Nonetheless, little attention has been given to the complex ways in which hegemonic conceptions of gender, race, nation, and knowledge are implicated within institutional frameworks of climate policy, media representations of scientific knowledge, and suggestions of planetary redemption through "eco-engineering," carbon markets, or profit-generating green technologies.

We welcome new feminist scholarship on the scientific, ethical, epistemological, economic, and cultural dimensions of current global climate change, as well as work in applied philosophy that engages specific questions in particular contexts. In addition to essays developing feminist analyses of the science, ethics, and politics of global climate change, we encourage investigations of the power-laden frameworks which shape the discourses that influence various understandings of and responses to climate change.

In addition to critical case studies, some questions and issues that might be considered in this special issue include (but are not limited to) feminist analyses of the following topics:

-Geopolitics of climate change treaties and political processes

-Ethics and politics of approaches to climate justice, such as human security, indigenous rights, and eco-centric perspectives

-Critical analyses of industrial, scientific, policy and activist discourses of climate change

-Climate change denial and epistemologies of ignorance

-Intersections and tensions between development ethics and climate ethics

-Religious discourses concerning climate change, from denial to corporate responsibility

-Epistemologies and ethics of climate modeling, including economic models

-Naturalization of fossil fuel dependence and consumerism

-Climate change and the resurgence of reactionary notions of population control

-Critical analyses of the influence of popular media, from misinformation to education

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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

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Hypatia has been published as an independent journal of feminist philosophy since 1986; Volume 25 will appear in 2010. To mark this significant anniversary—to celebrate the accomplishments of Hypatia, its founders, editors, and contributors, and to consider where feminist philosophy is headed in the next 25 years—the final issue in Volume 25 (Fall 2010) will be a Special 25th Anniversary Issue. Papers are welcome on any topic in feminist philosophy addressed by contributors to Hypatia in its publication history. We particularly encourage a forward-looking focus that draws on retrospective assessment to envision future directions: what issues are emerging, what lines of inquiry are taking shape, what questions urgently need attention, given the trajectory of feminist philosophy evident in the articles, reviews, symposia and special issues published by Hypatia since the mid-1980s? You might, for example:

• identify a paper or debate published by Hypatia that especially influenced you (positively or negatively) and assess the implications of its insights, its lacunae, its impact for future directions in feminist philosophy;

• if you are a Hypatia author, return to a paper you published in the journal and assess how thinking in this area has changed, what new directions are taking shape;

• consider how, and why, some topics that were prominent in early issues of Hypatia have continued to structure feminist philosophy while others have been reframed or set aside: how has work on these topics evolved and where it can be expected to go in the future?

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Medical biotechnologies have been heralded as both the solution to most problems affecting human beings and their environments, and as a threat to all that matters to us. Feminist analysis of current medical biotechnologies has much to offer to this debate. Hypatia invites submissions that use feminist philosophy to evaluate medical biotechnologies. We welcome articles exploring feminist philosophical analyses of medical biotechnologies and those evaluating how feminist values might shape the development and implementation of such technologies. Also of interest are essays that reflect on the gendered, race, and class dimensions of medical biotechnologies, that evaluate the impact of globalization on these biotechnologies and vice-versa, and that offer new insights into the effects of medical biotechnologies on social and political arrangements. Although feminist work in biomedicine is frequently assumed to be about women’s capacity to procreate, this issue seeks to highlight other dimensions of medical biotechnologies, including human genetic modification, cloning, xenotransplantation, chimeras, pharmacogenomics/genetics, and human genetic databases.

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This call is for the first of two FEAST special issues to be hosted by Hypatia. This issue will appear in January-March 2010. In keeping with the FEAST sponsorship, the broad theme of this issue is feminist ethics and social thought, and all FEAST members are invited to submit their work. At the 2007 conference, we had a wonderful array of theoretical and applied papers. Conference themes included the following:

virtue ethics
care ethics
responsibility
violence and bigotry
testimony and story-telling
justice and ethics in interpersonal relationships
international justice and human rights
terrorism and national security
stem cell research
sex, gender, power, and solidarity
Beauvoir and Arendt

Throughout the conference and in diverse ways, speakers underscored the relations between theory and social processes and between power, experience, and moral philosophy. I would like this special issue to mirror the scope, as well as the depth, of what FEAST members are contributing to philosophy. The themes I have listed illustrate the range of conference papers. Submissions on other topics in feminist ethics and social thought are welcome.