Article(electronic)July 2001
The Birth of an Identity: A Response to Del McWhorter's Bodies and Pleasures
In: Hypatia: a journal of feminist philosophy, Volume 16, Issue 3, p. 106-114
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Abstract
First, I engage Del McWhorter's confessional voice in the context of her thought and emphasize her claim that even "objective knowledge" often has an indirectly confessional aspect. Second, I give an account of the value of historicity and genealogy in McWhorter's understanding of knowing and subjectivity. Third, I address her reconfiguration of the subjectivity of desiring by prioritizing pleasure in the project of "becoming truly gay." Finally, I assess the meaning of her phrase, "straying afield from myself."
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
ISSN: 1527-2001
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