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Dyke Methods or Principles for the Discovery/Creation of the Withstanding∗

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Joyce Trebilcot
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Abstract

Alarmed by the domination inherent in the patriarchal idea of truth, the author sketches principles that allow her to develop accounts of reality—to “do theory”—without implying that others should agree. This epistemological setting supports differences among wimmin that are expressed in different understandings of the world; it also supports agreement.

Type
Research Article
Information
Hypatia , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , Summer 1988 , pp. 1 - 13
Copyright
Copyright © 1988 by Hypatia, Inc.

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Footnotes

∗

Of the many wimmin whose work and presence inspires and supports me, I am especially aware of valuable contributions to the content of this essay from Claudia Card, Jacquelyn N. Zita, Janneke van der Ros, Jeanette Silveira, Jeffner Allen, Julia Penelope, María Lugones, Marilyn Frye, and Sarah Lucia Hoagland. Also, the writing of Liz Stanley and Sue Wise in their book Breaking Out: Feminist Consciousness and Feminist Research (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983) has given me both content and courage.

After I presented this material at a session of the Society for Women in Philosophy in the fall of 1986, Sarah Hoagland sent me a copy of an earlier essay by Sally Miller Gearhart in which Gearhart develops an idea closely related to part of what I say here. Gearhart's thesis is that “any intent to persuade is an act of violence.” Her essay is “The Womanization of Rhetoric,”Women's Studies International Quarterly, 1979, Vol. 2, pp. 195–201.