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 ******************************************* Chaone Mallory, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Philosophy Villanova University Villanova, PA 19085 610-519-3274 [log in to unmask] Villanova Year of Sustainability http://www.villanova.edu/sustainability/ Villanova Sustainability Conference: http://www.villanova.edu/sustainability/yearofsustainabilty/conference/ ________________________________________ From: Feminist ethics and social theory [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ruth Groenhout [[log in to unmask]] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 10:24 AM To: [log in to unmask] 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 Ruth Groenhout Calvin College-Philosophy Dept 1845 Knollcrest Circle SE Grand Rapids, MI 49546-4402 office: (616) 526-6412 fax: (616) 526-8505