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This book presents the current feminist critique of science and the
philosophy of science in such a way that students of philosophy of
science, philosophers, feminist theorists, and scientists will find
the material accessible and intellectually rigorous.Contemporary
feminist debate, as well as the debate brought on by the radical
critics of scienc
As a young girl, Jane Duran moved to Chile with her family,
travelling from New York to Valparaiso on the Santa Barbara, one of
the Grace Line fleet. This long journey, passing through the Panama
Canal and down the Pacific coast of Latin America, has inspired her
collection of poems Graceline. These meditative poems cross over
continually between illusion and reality, past and present.
Although they evoke the journey, and the extraordinary landscapes
of Chile, they also explore darker undercurrents. Her sequence
Panama Canal evokes the terrors of the Canal's construction; a
sequence on the regime of Pinochet (Invisible Ink) interweaves
cityscapes and landscapes with allusions to the cruelties and
bereavements of that time. But the poems are also about her life as
a young girl in Chile, the impact of the Chilean landscape on her,
and convey a powerful feeling of love for that country.
New work on women thinkers often makes the point that philosophical
conceptual thought is where we find it, examples such as Simone de
Beauvoir and the nineteenth century Black American writer Anna
Julia Cooper assure us that there is ample room for the development
of philosophy in literary works but as yet there has been no single
unifying attempt to trace such projects among a variety of women
novelists. This book articulates philosophical concerns in the work
of five well known twentieth century women writers, including
writers of color. Duran traces the development of philosophical
themes - ontological, ethical and feminist - in the writings of
Margaret Drabble, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Toni Cade
Bambara and Elena Poniatowska presenting both a general overview of
the author's work with an emphasis on traditional philosophical
questions and a detailed feminist reading of the work.
The first volume to explore comprehensively the intersection of
feminism, politics, and philosophy, Women in Political Theory sheds
light on the contributions of women philosophers and theorists to
contemporary political thought. With close attention to the work of
five central thinkers-Sarah Grimke, Anna Julia Cooper, Jane Addams,
Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt-this book not only offers
sustained analyses of the thought of these leading figures, but
also examines their relationship with established political
theorists of the past, such as Locke, Machiavelli, and the
ancients. Demonstrating that each of the figures covered was indeed
a political theorist of her time, whilst highlighting the strength
of her thought and the reasons for which it has not been accorded
the attention that it merits, Women in Political Theory offers a
fascinating overview of the political thought of five theorists
whose work is central to an understanding of modern thought. As
such, it will be of interest to scholars and students of sociology,
philosophy, political and social theory, feminist thought, and
gender studies.
The first volume to explore comprehensively the intersection of
feminism, politics, and philosophy, Women in Political Theory sheds
light on the contributions of women philosophers and theorists to
contemporary political thought. With close attention to the work of
five central thinkers-Sarah Grimke, Anna Julia Cooper, Jane Addams,
Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt-this book not only offers
sustained analyses of the thought of these leading figures, but
also examines their relationship with established political
theorists of the past, such as Locke, Machiavelli, and the
ancients. Demonstrating that each of the figures covered was indeed
a political theorist of her time, whilst highlighting the strength
of her thought and the reasons for which it has not been accorded
the attention that it merits, Women in Political Theory offers a
fascinating overview of the political thought of five theorists
whose work is central to an understanding of modern thought. As
such, it will be of interest to scholars and students of sociology,
philosophy, political and social theory, feminist thought, and
gender studies.
New work on women thinkers often makes the point that philosophical
conceptual thought is where we find it, examples such as Simone de
Beauvoir and the nineteenth century Black American writer Anna
Julia Cooper assure us that there is ample room for the development
of philosophy in literary works but as yet there has been no single
unifying attempt to trace such projects among a variety of women
novelists. This book articulates philosophical concerns in the work
of five well known twentieth century women writers, including
writers of color. Duran traces the development of philosophical
themes - ontological, ethical and feminist - in the writings of
Margaret Drabble, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Toni Cade
Bambara and Elena Poniatowska presenting both a general overview of
the author's work with an emphasis on traditional philosophical
questions and a detailed feminist reading of the work.
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Gypsy Ballads (Hardcover, New)
Federico Garcia Lorca; Edited by Jane Duran, Gloria Garcia Lorca
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Translated by Gloria Garcia Lorca, the writer's niece, and Jane
Duran, the family friend who became a celebrated poet, Gypsy
Ballads is the most authentic version of Romancero Gitano
imaginable. In their new translation Jane Duran and Gloria Garcia
Lorca have been faithful to Lorca's work, searching out original
meanings, avoiding overt interpretations, reproducing metaphors, so
as to bring to an English-speaking reader the pure power of Lorca's
poetry. What is revealed is a kaleidoscope of sensory images,
characters and stories. Lorca described his most popular collection
as 'the poem of Andalusia ...A book that hardly expresses visible
Andalusia at all, but where hidden Andalusia trembles.' Seeking to
relate the nature of his proud and troubled region of Spain, he
drew on a traditional gypsy form; yet the homely, unpretentious
style of these poems barely disguises strong undercurrents of
conflicted identity. This bilingual edition includes revealing
insights into the Romancero and the history of the Spanish ballad
form by Andres Soria Olmedo; notes on the dedications by Manuel
Fernandez-Montesinos; Lorca's lecture on his own book; and an
introduction to the problems and challenges faced by translators of
Lorca, by Professor Christopher Maurer.
Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936), wrote The Tamarit Divan and the
Sonnets of Dark Love in the last years of his life. Both books were
published posthumously and explore passionate love. The setting for
The Divan is the poet's Granada, while the Sonnets are a solitary,
intimate voice speaking to one person. In translating these
powerful poems, Jane Duran and Gloria Garcia Lorca have tried to
remain as close as possible to Lorca's words and to his emotional
and sensuous intensity.This bilingual edition also includes essays
by two acclaimed Lorca scholars. Christopher Maurer's essay,
'Violet Shadow', explores Lorca's relationship with Arabic poetry
in the Divan. Andres Soria Olmedo's essay, 'Dark St Valentine',
studies the implications and resonances of 'dark love' in the
Sonnets.
Jane Duran's Worlds of Knowing begins to fill an enormous gap in the literature of feminist epistemology: a wide-ranging, cross-cultural primer on worldviews and epistemologies of various cultures and their appropriations by indigenous feminist movements in those cultures. It is the much needed epistemological counterpart to work on cross-cultural feminist social and political philosophy. Her book is powerful, comprehensive, and brave. It will prove an enormously useful resource for scholars in women's studies, philosophy, anthropology, religious studies and history.
Jane Duran's "Worlds of Knowing" begins to fill an enormous gap in
the literature of feminist epistemology: a wide-ranging,
cross-cultural primer on worldviews and epistemologies of various
cultures and their appropriations by indigenous feminist movements
in those cultures. It is the much needed epistemological
counterpart to work on cross-cultural feminist social and political
philosophy. This project is absolutely breath-taking in scope, yet
a manageable read for anyone with some background in feminist
theory, history, or anthropology. Duran draws many comparisons and
connections to Western philosophical and feminist ideas, yet avoids
facile or imperialistic over-universalization. Her book is
powerful, comprehensive, and brave. It will prove an enormously
useful resource for scholars in women's studies, philosophy,
anthropology, religious studies, and history.
Jane Duran's new book of two striking sequences takes readers into
other worlds - 'gridlines', in which the life and paintings of
Agnes Martin are interwoven, and 'miniatures of al-Andalus'
inspired by the illuminated Cantigas de Santa Maria and the art and
artefacts of Islamic Iberia. The simple gridlines of Duran's
couplets recall Martin's square canvasses, her precisely rendered
grids and luminous stripes. Responding to individual images and to
Martin's own biography, discovering lovely breaths of life entering
the 'grey rectangles', the poems' intricate interlockings and
brilliant images seem almost to escape the poems' formal
enclosures, so that Martin's 'The Peach 1964', 'gave me back //
only beige, graphite, / ink, sanity // and orchard after orchard'.
This book presents the current feminist critique of science and the
philosophy of science in such a way that students of philosophy of
science, philosophers, feminist theorists, and scientists will find
the material accessible and intellectually rigorous.Contemporary
feminist debate, as well as the debate brought on by the radical
critics of science, assumes--incorrectly--that certain movements in
philosophy of science and science-driven theory are understood in
their dynamics as well as in their details. All too often, labels
such as "Kuhnian" or "positivistic" are taken for granted, and much
of the contemporary postmodern or post-structuralist feminist
theory that sets out to criticize science does little to alleviate
the reader's lack of knowledge with regard to such movements.Unlike
other texts, "Philosophies of Science: Feminist Theories" provides
a student-oriented framework so that, for example, positivism is
given a thorough grounding before the feminist critique of such
epistemological theory is given. Other movements discussed include
the Kuhnian turn, sociology of science, and the radical critique of
science. Feminist theory and critique are interwoven throughout,
with one chapter devoted to feminist thought, which includes the
work of such thinkers as Longino, Hararway, Hubbard, Nelson,
Harding, and Keller.
A critical examination of the engaging voice and multiple stories
of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on war, feminism, art, ideology, hair,
complex human identities and the challenges of multicultural
existence. Easily the leading and most engaging voice of her era
and generation, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has bridged gaps and
introduced new motifs and narrative styles which have energized
contemporary African fiction since her first novel, Purple Hibiscus
(2003). With Half of a Yellow Sun (2007) and The Thing Around Your
Neck - Short Stories (2009), she established herself as a
preeminent story-teller. Americanah (2013), with
ingeniouscraftsmanship addresses the sensitive themes of passionate
love, independence, freedom and moral responsibility with
extravagant and versatile narrative innovations. Through her
writings, she has made herself relevant topeople of all ages -
across racial and linguistic boundaries. Her talks, blogs, musings
on social media, essays and commentaries, workshop-mentoring for
budding young writers, lecture circuit discourses, all enrich her
imaginativecreativity as they expand and define her mission as a
writer. "We Should All be Feminists" she proclaimed in an essay,
giving feminism a "tweak and twist" and suggesting new outlooks in
literary theory. Her contributionsto African, Diasporic and World
literatures deserve serious analyses, commentaries and
interpretations, and this Companion to her work critically examines
her creative outputs from her art and ideology, from feminism to
war, to matters of myth and perception, and the challenges of
multicultural existence and complex human identities.
Recent work on the Platonic notion of the Guardian has focused on
the female Guardian, or "Philosopher Queen," but mainly insofar as
the idea is problematic. Okin, Saxonhouse, and others have tried to
be more precise about the concepts involved-this work aims to use
actual publications by British and continentally-trained women
aristocrats of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to fill in
the lacunae. It is concluded that these women were not only
philosophical thinkers, but in some sense Guardians. Their overview
encompassed notions of duty, care, and a concern of the development
of the intellectual life that left a mark for future generations.
This book forwards a line of argument that indicates how feminist
analyses can ameliorate the standard consequential (and
occasionally deontological) lines in applied ethics. Drawing on
core concepts in feminist philosophy, Feminist Analyses of Applied
Ethics investigates five major issues: immigration, environmental
preservation, intervention in medical areas, the peace movement,
and matters of citizenship. Although most of these areas have
received extensive analysis, there is no one work that covers all
five areas from a feminist point of view. This book aims to remedy
that defect. The work draws on key thinkers in feminist ethics,
such as Card and Gilligan, and also ventures to other areas of
feminist philosophy.
Gender scholarship during the last four decades has shown that the
exclusion of women's voices and perspectives has diminished
academic disciplines in important ways. Traditional scholarship in
philosophy is no different. The 'recovery project' in philosophy is
engaged in re-discovering the names, lives, texts, and perspectives
of women philosophers from the 6th Century BCE to the present.
Karen Warren brings together 16 colleagues for a unique,
groundbreaking study of Western philosophy which combines pairs of
leading men and women philosophers over the past 2600 years,
acknowledging and evaluating their contributions to foundational
themes in philosophy, including epistemology, metaphysics, and
ethics. Introductory essays, primary source readings, and
commentaries comprise each chapter to offer a rich and accessible
introduction to and evaluation of these vital philosophical
contributions. A helpful appendix canvasses an extraordinary number
of women philosophers for further discovery and study.
Gender scholarship during the last four decades has shown that the
exclusion of women's voices and perspectives has diminished
academic disciplines in important ways. Traditional scholarship in
philosophy is no different. The 'recovery project' in philosophy is
engaged in re-discovering the names, lives, texts, and perspectives
of women philosophers from the 6th Century BCE to the present.
Karen Warren brings together 16 colleagues for a unique,
groundbreaking study of Western philosophy which combines pairs of
leading men and women philosophers over the past 2600 years,
acknowledging and evaluating their contributions to foundational
themes in philosophy, including epistemology, metaphysics, and
ethics. Introductory essays, primary source readings, and
commentaries comprise each chapter to offer a rich and accessible
introduction to and evaluation of these vital philosophical
contributions. A helpful appendix canvasses an extraordinary number
of women philosophers for further discovery and study.
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The Critical Pragmatism of Alain Locke - A Reader on Value Theory, Aesthetics, Community, Culture, Race, and Education (Paperback)
Leonard Harris; Contributions by Nancy Fraser, Astrid Franke, Sally J. Scholz, Mark Helbling, …
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This book provides a comprehensive overview of Alain Locke's
pragmatist philosophy. It aims to capture the radical implications
of Locke's approach within pragmatism, the critical temper embedded
in Locke's works, the central role of power and empowerment of the
oppressed, and the concept of broad democracy Locke employed.
Arguing that the school of thought Locke initiated is best
described as critical pragmatism, the well-known philosopher and
Locke scholar, Leonard Harris, provides a clear and thorough
introduction to Locke's thought that will be useful to students and
scholars alike. At a time when critical theory in all
forms-post-Marxist, legal, race, and gender theory-is undergoing a
major reassessment, this volume is especially timely. Locke's
critical pragmatism arguably avoids the pitfalls of critical
theory, anticipates its tremendous contribution to human
liberation, and offers an alternative to the limitations of
classical pragmatism. This volume introduces unique individual
interpretations of Locke and critical reflections on his
philosophy. Each author, in the spirit of Locke's critical temper,
offers their own contribution to extremely difficult issues.
A critical examination of the engaging voice and multiple stories
of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on war, feminism, art, ideology, hair,
complex human identities and the challenges of multicultural
existence. Easily the leading and most engaging voice of her era
and generation, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has bridged gaps and
introduced new motifs and narrative styles which have energized
contemporary African fiction since her first novel, Purple Hibiscus
(2003). With Half of a Yellow Sun (2007) and The Thing Around Your
Neck - Short Stories (2009), she established herself as a
preeminent story-teller. Americanah (2013), with
ingeniouscraftsmanship addresses the sensitive themes of passionate
love, independence, freedom and moral responsibility with
extravagant and versatile narrative innovations. Through her
writings, she has made herself relevant topeople of all ages -
across racial and linguistic boundaries. Her talks, blogs, musings
on social media, essays and commentaries, workshop-mentoring for
budding young writers, lecture circuit discourses, all enrich her
imaginativecreativity as they expand and define her mission as a
writer. "We Should All be Feminists" she proclaimed in an essay,
giving feminism a "tweak and twist" and suggesting new outlooks in
literary theory. Her contributionsto African, Diasporic and World
literatures deserve serious analyses, commentaries and
interpretations, and this Companion to her work critically examines
her creative outputs from her art and ideology, from feminism to
war, to matters of myth and perception, and the challenges of
multicultural existence and complex human identities. Ernest N.
Emenyonu is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of
Michigan-Flint, USA.
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