Bonnie Mann's Women's Liberation: Feminism, Postmodernism, and the Sublime (Oxford: 2006) contains a sustained treatment of the way in which the Kantian sublime is saturated with gender politics, partly in the form of a devaluation of the feminized sphere of necessity (which also links to a devaluation of the natural world, a relationship we can recuperate through the construction of a "feminist politics of place") and the reification of the masculine/ized mind that comprehends, but stands outside of and above, the awe, terror, and sublimity of natural environments. I highly recommend it, very philosophically challenging and rich.

Chaone
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From: Feminist ethics and social theory [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ruth Groenhout [[log in to unmask]]
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Subject: Re: Kant and women?

Barbara Herman has a nicely written discussion of
Kant and sexual ethics in the anthology A Mind of
One's Own, edited by Anthony and Witt.

--Ruth

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