Lugones, María. Playfulness, “World”-Travelling, and Loving Perception
1987, Hypatia 2(2): 3-19
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Added by: Jimena ClavelAbstract:
A paper about cross-cultural and cross-racial loving that emphasizes the need to understand and affirm the plurality in and among women as central to feminist ontology and epistemology. Love is seen not as fusion and erasure of difference but as incompatible with them. Love reveals plurality. Unity -not to be confused with solidarity - is understood as conceptually tied to domination.Comment: This paper discusses the epistemic position of marginalized identities. It can be discussed in a course on feminist philosophy or on social epistemology. It can also be helpful to connect discussions between feminist philosophy and empathy.
Mcweeny, Jennifer. Liberating Anger, Embodying Knowledge: A Comparative Study of Maria Lugones and Zen Master Hakuin
2010, Hypatia 25 (2):295 - 315.
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Added by: Clotilde Torregrossa, Contributed by: Corbin CovingtonAbstract: This paper strengthens the theoretical ground of feminist analyses of anger by explaining how the angers of the oppressed are ways of knowing. Relying on insights created through the juxtaposition of Latina feminism and Zen Buddhism, I argue that these angers are special kinds of embodied perceptions that surface when there is a profound lack of fit between a particular bodily orientation and its framing world of sense. As openings to alternative sensibilities, these angers are transformative, liberatory, and deeply epistemological.
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