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A Liberated Woman
Abbie’s talk at Stony Brook. Homer’s World The first time I came out in public as a feminist, I was an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at The State University of New York at Stony Brook. For some reason, I had … Continue reading →
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Tagged "Feminism Without Contradictions", a book loses magnetism, Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Feminism Without Contradictions" in The Monist, academic feminist, Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, becoming a free woman, biblical Israel, Biblical Israel and Homer’s world, Biblical Israel missing from map of ancient world, breaking taboos, breaking the ice, clothes as a statement, directive to throw a book out, Divine command to discard a book, Divine directive, dodging a divine command, dress for success, dress to impress, feminism in academe, feminism in philosophical journal, feminist, feminist stage performance, Fulbright in Paris, Fulbright scholars, Fulbright women, Greta Thunberg in book about ancient world, Homer and Isaiah contemporaries, Homer's Iliad, Homer's Odyssey, liberated woman, magnetism of a book, maps of Homer’s world, new book on Homer’s women, obeying a divine command, Odysseus comes home, Penelope and Odysseus, Penelope in The Odyssey, Penelope’s shrewdness in the Odyssey, Penelope’s strategy with the suitors, performing on stage, philosophy at Stony Brook, second wave feminism, self-liberation, sensing God’s presence, Simone de Beauvoir, songs for the feminist movement, Thomas Mann's Joseph and His Brothers, woman philosophy professor, women and dressing to impress, women in Homer, women's liberation, women’s liberation from false authority, women’s liberation from false narratives
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The Lot of Women
A line comes to mind that I first heard spoken in the alabaster French of the Comédie-Française, many years ago in the Paris of my youth: Do you not pity the lot of women? Le sort des femmes … the … Continue reading →
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Tagged academic feminism, academic merit, academic retaliation, ambivalence of feminists, Andrea Dworkin’s Heartbreak, believing the woman, Bill Clinton, Catharine A. MacKinnon, Catherine Chalier, Clinton accused of rape, Comédie-Française, distinctions can get blurry, Emmanuel Levinas, faculty feminist group, feminism and changes in the law, feminism in academe, feminist bloc, feminist distinctions can get blurry, feminist friends, feminist hypocrisy, feminist idealism, feminist politics, feminist real life, feminists betraying women, fired for voting wrong, firing not merit-based, French feminists, Gertrude Ezorsky, in-house academic politics, independent investigation, Juanita Broaddrick, le sort des femmes, marital rape, merit-based firing, NY Times letter, Parisian feminists, Philosophy Department of City University’s Brooklyn College, Phyllis Chesler, political loyalty and feminism, political reprisals in academe, politics of feminism, rape and feminism, rape in marriage, sexual harassment, the destiny of women, the lot of women, victims of feminism, victims of sexism, wife battering, women controlling women, women in academia, women’s bloc
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The Lot of Women
A line comes to mind that I first heard spoken in the alabaster French of the Comédie-Française, many years ago in the Paris of my youth: Do you not pity the lot of women? Le sort des femmes … the … Continue reading →
Posted in Absolute Freedom and Terror, absurdism, academe, action, afterlife, agnosticism, alienation, American politics, anthropology, anti-semitism, appreciation, art, art of living, atheism, authenticity, autonomy, bad faith, beauty, Bible, Biblical Archeology, Biblical God, bigotry, book reviews, books, bureaucracy, childhood, chivalry, Christianity, cities, class, Confessions of a Young Philosopher, conformism, contemplation, contradictions, cool, courage, courtship, cults, cultural politics, culture, desire, Desire and Authenticity, dialectic, eighteenth century, erotic life, eternity, ethics, ethnicity, evil, existentialism, exploitation, faith, fashion, fatherhood, female power, femininity, feminism, filial piety, films, freedom, friendship, gender balance, glitterati, Gnosticism, guilt and innocence, health, Hegel, hegemony, heroes, hidden God, hierarchy, history, history of ideas, id, idealism, ideality, identity, ideology, idolatry, immorality, immortality, institutional power, Jesus, Jews, journalism, Judaism, law, legal responsibility, life and death struggle, literature, love, male power, Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions, martyrdom, masculinity, master, master/slave relation, medieval, memoir, memory, Messianic Age, mind control, modern women, modernism, moral action, moral evaluation, moral psychology, morality, mortality, motherhood, mysticism, Nihilism, nineteenth-century, non-violence, novels, ontology, oppression, pacifism, past and future, peace, Phenomenology of the Mind, philosophy, poetry, political, political movements, politics, politics of ideas, postmodernism, power, power games, presence, promissory notes, propaganda, psychology, public facade, public intellectual, race, racism, radicalism, reading, reductionism, relationships, religion, remembrance, Renaissance, repairing the culture, roles, romance, romantic love, romanticism, science, scientism, secular, seduction, self-deception, sex appeal, sexuality, slave, social climbing, social construction, social conventions, social ranking, sociobiology, spiritual journey, spiritual not religious, spirituality, status, status of women, suffering, Suicide, terror, terrorism, the examined life, the problematic of men, the problematic of woman, the profane, the sacred, theism, theology, time, Truth, TV, twentieth century, twenty-first century, Utopia, victimhood, victims, violence, war, work, writing, Zeitgeist
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Tagged academic feminism, academic merit, academic retaliation, ambivalence of feminists, Andrea Dworkin’s Heartbreak, believing the woman, Bill Clinton, Catharine A. MacKinnon, Catherine Chalier, Clinton accused of rape, Comédie-Française, distinctions can get blurry, Emmanuel Levinas, faculty feminist group, feminism and changes in the law, feminism in academe, feminist bloc, feminist distinctions can get blurry, feminist friends, feminist hypocrisy, feminist idealism, feminist politics, feminist real life, feminists betraying women, fired for voting wrong, firing not merit-based, French feminists, Gertrude Ezorsky, in-house academic politics, independent investigation, Juanita Broaddrick, le sort des femmes, marital rape, merit-based firing, NY Times letter, Parisian feminists, Philosophy Department of City University’s Brooklyn College, Phyllis Chesler, political loyalty and feminism, political reprisals in academe, politics of feminism, rape and feminism, rape in marriage, sexual harassment, the destiny of women, the lot of women, victims of feminism, victims of sexism, wife battering, women controlling women, women in academia, women’s bloc
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