Congratulations Emanuela and Diana (and apologies if I missed some
announcements)!

My book too is just out:
Interspecies Ethics from Columbia UP. This is feminism across species,
partly co-authored in true sisterhood with Julie Willett.

Here¹s its link: 
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-16776-5/interspecies-ethics/reviews


From CUP: "Interspecies Ethics explores animals¹ vast capacity for agency,
justice, solidarity, humor, and communication across species. The social
 bonds diverse animals form provide a remarkable model for communitarian
 justice and cosmopolitan peace, challenging the human exceptionalism
that drives modern moral theory. Situating biosocial ethics firmly
within coevolutionary processes, this volume has profound implications
for work in social and political thought, contemporary pragmatism,
Africana thought, and continental philosophy."


Cindy

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Emory University
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On 9/8/14, 2:46 PM, "Emanuela Bianchi" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Dear All,
> 
>Tis the new book season!  I'm happy to announce that my book The
>Feminine Symptom: Aleatory Matter in the Aristotelian Cosmos is out this
>fall with Fordham University Press.  As far as I'm aware it's the first
>continental feminist book on Aristotle's natural philosophy and
>metaphysics, and would be fine addition to upper level and graduate
>courses dealing with the history of philosophy from a feminist
>perspective.  Here's the publishers' description:
> 
>"The Feminine Symptom takes as its starting point the problem of female
>offspring for Aristotle: If form is transmitted by the male and the
>female provides only matter, how is a female child produced? Aristotle
>answers that there must be some fault or misstep in the process.
> 
>This inexplicable but necessary coincidence--sumptoma in Greek--defines
>the feminine symptom. Departing from the standard associations of
>male-activity-form and female-passivity-matter, Bianchi traces the
>operation of chance and spontaneity throughout Aristotle's biology,
>physics, cosmology, and metaphysics and argues that it is not passive
>but aleatory matter--unpredictable, ungovernable, and acting against
>nature and teleology--that he continually allies with the feminine.
> 
>Aristotle's pervasive disparagement of the female as a mild form of
>monstrosity thus works to shore up his polemic against the aleatory and
>to consolidate patriarchal teleology in the face of atomism and
>Empedocleanism. Bianchi concludes by connecting her analysis to recent
>biological and materialist political thinking, and makes the case for a
>new, antiessentialist politics of aleatory feminism."
> 
>Here's a link to the publisher's website, and to the book's facebook
>page:
>http://fordhampress.com/index.php/the-feminine-symptom-paperback.html
>https://www.facebook.com/femininesymptom
> 
>All best for the new semester!
>Emma
>
>-- 
>  Emanuela Bianchi
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