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Pragmatist Feminism as Ecological Ontology: Reflections on Living Across and Through Skins

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Shannon Sullivan
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Abstract

In my response to the comments of Vincent Colapietro, Charlene Seigfried, and Gail Weiss on Living Across and Through Skins (Sullivan 2001), I explain pragmatist feminism as an ecological ontology that understands bodies and environments as dynamically co-constitutive. I then discuss the relationship of pragmatist feminism to phenomenology, psychoanalysis, Nietzschean genealogy, and Darwinian evolutionary theory. Some of the specific concepts I examine include the anonymous body, the bodying organism, truth as transactional flourishing, and the preservation of racial and ethnic categories.

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Symposium on Shannon Sullivan's Living Across and Through Skins
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Hypatia , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , Fall 2002 , pp. 201 - 217
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Copyright © 2002 by Hypatia, Inc.

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