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A feminist reading of how Heidegger may have responded to an unanswered questioned he posed in 1923, ""Problem: What is woman?"" while using his thought to better understand how contemporary society replies to questions in the realms of law, bioethics, pedagogy, and politics. This book begins with an unexplored and unanswered question that Martin Heidegger raises in a 1923 Freiburg course: ""Problem: What is woman?"" Yet, why should we care that Heidegger raises this ""problem""? What could he, a member of the National Socialist Party, help feminists understand about responding to ""the woman question""? How can Heidegger help us understand our own historical climate in which this question continues to hold significance? Jill Drouillard divides Heidegger's thought into two categories to think about the sexed/gendered experiences that coordinate our birth: (1) the one that suspends ""the woman question"" and that provides useful resources for thinking the fluidity of sex/gender, and (2) the one that provides a totalized reply to this query by manipulating tropes of the feminine to advance a politico-poetic project of Nazi politics. She uses Heidegger as a cautionary tale to demonstrate the harm that occurs when society tries to define the being (or ""what is"") of woman in any definite sense. In some chapters, she teases apart how Heidegger may have offered a reply to ""the woman question"" and, in others, shows what happens in today's society when law, bioethics, politics, and pedagogy reckon with this query.

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Author:   Jill Drouillard (Mississippi University for Women)
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.431kg
ISBN:  

9798855801484

Pages:   222
Publication Date:   01 March 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Abbreviations: Selected Works by Martin Heidegger Introduction Feminist Heidegger: Sex, Gender, and the Politics of Birth The Challenge of Embracing a Collective Identity that Preserves Differences Feminist Standpoint Epistemology and My Reading of Heidegger Rethinking the Body and Birth of Finite Dasein Part I: Heidegger's Sex/Gender Neutrality and the Politics of Birth Chapter 1 ""You're Already off the Clock"": Temporalizing Laboring Dasein A Phenomenology of Laboring Dasein: Primordial Time versus Shared Time Authentic Temporality as a Poiēsis of Birth Chapter 2 Problem: What Is Woman? The Hermeneutics of Sex/Gender Facticity Problem: What Is Woman? Ontology: The Hermeneutics of Facticity and Ontological Sex Inequality The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic and the Primacy of Sexual Difference Transcendence, World-Forming, and Care The Privileging of Sexual Difference and Biology Implications of Heidegger's Sexed/Gendered Bodies (Körper/Leib) Chapter 3 Queering Gestell: Partial Enframing, Racial Breeding, and Assisted Reproductive Technology Framing Reproductive Enframing Coda: Race as Technology in Reproductive Enframing Race as Technology The (Re)Production of Race in France Rethinking Race and Reproductive Enframing with Heidegger Chapter 4 Bodyreading Grumet and Heidegger: ""Setting Up"" Feminist Pedagogy and ""Reproducing"" the Curriculum Hermes, Messenger and Caregiver Bitter Milk and Standing Reserve Classrooms Setting Up Feminist Pedagogy Part II: Heidegger's Grounding of Sex/Gender and the Politics of Birth Chapter 5 A Feminist Reading of the Black Notebooks: The Eternal Feminine, Peasant Women, and ""Being a People"" The Historicity of Beyng and the Eternal Feminine The Blood and Soil of Peasant Women Sexual Tension in Trakl's Poetic Work: (Pro)Creating a People Chapter 6 Bridging Heidegger after the Black Notebooks: Of Worlds, Not Words Worldless Jews, Genos, and Polemos Borderlands, Multiplicitous Selves, and Playful World-Traveling Anzaldúa's Bridge and Anaximander's Apeiron Zurn's Trans Poetics of Dust The Creative Impotence of the University and Making Sense at the Margins The ""In-Between"" and Border Consciousness of Dust Notes Bibliography Index

Reviews

""This is a book the field has been waiting for. It is a sustained feminist study of Heidegger's opus and also a work of feminist philosophy that is attuned to the most pressing questions of today. It will shape the questions to come."" — Anne O'Byrne, author of Natality and Finitude

"""This is a book the field has been waiting for. It is a sustained feminist study of Heidegger's opus and also a work of feminist philosophy that is attuned to the most pressing questions of today. It will shape the questions to come."" — Anne O'Byrne, author of Natality and Finitude"

Author Information

Jill Drouillard is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the Mississippi University for Women. Her research interests include feminist philosophy, ethics/bioethics, nineteenth- to twentieth-century continental philosophy, and social philosophy in the United States and France.

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