Dear Prof. Jaggar,
I sometimes wonder how you feel about watching people repeat your material, ideas, themes and theses and repeat them two decades later; for instance one very enterprising and community-minded 'Talia' concluded a great sweep of crowd-sourcing for titles and came up with a summary for teaching foundations of the field with this as item #3 on the list:
"Sally J. Scholz's: Feminism: A Beginner's Guide as one of the texts in my lower
level feminist philosophy courses (along with the, unfortunately
no-longer-in-print,Feminist Philosophy Reader). Perhaps just the first
chapter or two could work for a short reading assignment. In that chapter,
Scholz discusses various definitions of feminism (e.g., feminism as a challenge
to unjust power dynamics, feminism responding to inequality, etc.). The second
chapter surveys various approaches (liberal, Marxist, poststructuralist, etc.)."
Notwithstanding she mentioned your first chapter of Feminist Politics and Human Nature further down the list, perhaps because I gave such a hard time on-line about crowd-sourcing -- I stand gratefully corrected and updated now re modern cyber spatial protocols -- still when I read this last sentence about a "second chapter" I wonder whether Scholz ever gave reference to the hundreds of pages over several chapters where you initiated such a survey of approaches in 1988 or so, in that book which I keep tied up
with string, it's been used so much that it's fallen into pieces. (God, I sound elderly!)
It's just that revisionist derivatives are one thing -- but there are still remarks and side comments in that book, which wasn't even presented as a cutting edge revolutionary treatise, but rather a comprehensive summary of work already done and presented constructively and thoughtfully -- it's quite another to return to building the wheel.
So I just wonder how it feels from the recipient side of that.
I've already sent a thank you for page 371 of that book. For years of thinking about inequity in development policy and politics I was inspired and encouraged by the top half of that page.
Helen Lauer
assoc. prof. Philosophy & Classics
University of Ghana, Legon
Sally, Thank you for forwarding on this invitation, which I had not heard about. However, I want to make clear that it is not for the journal,
Ethics & International Affairs, but rather for the journal Ethics,
whose not-so-often-used subtitle is: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy.
Pointing this out gives me the opportunity for a self-serving note. In July, 1974, I published an article titled "On
Sexual Equality," Ethics, 84:4. It is one of the earliest feminist articles I know about and was reprinted quite a few times. I'd be thrilled if someone chose to write about that article--though of course it would
not be difficult to point out its naivete. (I later wrote several revisionist articles on the same topic!)
Thanks,
Alison
Alison M. Jaggar
University of Colorado at Boulder
College Professor of Distinction, Philosophy and Women and Gender Studies
Research Coordinator University of Oslo Center for the Study of Mind in Nature,
Boulder, CO 80309-0232
303-492-8997 (direct line)
303-492-6132 (dept. office)
303-492-8386 (fax)
Ethics will turn 125 next year.
In honor of that anniversary, beginning in October 2014, the journal will publish a series of retrospective essays that discuss articles from past volumes of the journal. The editors are particularly eager to receive submissions to write on articles
written by women.
The journal invites interested readers and potential contributors to explore the journal's ample online archive.
Ethics is also marking the occasion with a new
Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/EthicsJournal)
and Twitter account (@EthicsJournal), which will provide updates about the 125th anniversary call for proposals, along with tidbits from the journal's first 100 years of scholarship.
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