Society for Analytical Feminism
Feminist Philosophy in the
Analytic Tradition
TO: Members of the Society for Analytical Feminism
FROM: Sharon
Crasnow, President
Riverside Community College-Norco Campus
2001 Third Street
Norco, CA 92860-2600
July 3, 2006
Dear members of the Society for Analytical Feminism,
It is my pleasure to once again send our yearly newsletter, call for papers for the Central Division meeting, and membership form. We have had a very successful year with two sessions at the Central Division APA (one on autonomy and one the result of our annual Call for Papers) and a panel session on feminist virtue ethics at the Pacific. Robin Dillon organized both the Pacific session and the Central session on autonomy. Kristen Intemann chaired the CFP session and the Executive Board reviewed the submissions from which the papers were selected. The details of these sessions are below.
The current executive board is as follows:
Sharon Crasnow, SAF President, Riverside Community College, Norco (2005-2007)
Robin Dillon, Lehigh University (2005-2007)
Jennifer Faust, California State University, Los Angeles (2005-2007)
Kristen Intemann, Montana State University, Bozeman (2005-2007)
We encourage you to contact any of us on the executive committee if you have ideas for future panels or sessions, or any other thoughts or questions about SAF.
Remember also that information on the Society can be found on our website: http://www.ku.edu/~acudd/safhomepage.htm
Thanks again to Ann Cudd for continuing to maintain this site for us.
2005-2006 in review:
Pacific Division Meeting: In Portland, the SAF sponsored a session on Feminist Virtue Ethics.
Chair: Robin
S. Dillon, Lehigh University
Speakers: Robin
S. Dillon, Lehigh University
“On Feminist Virtue Ethics”
Nancy
Nyquist Potter, University of Louisville
“Defiance and Other Virtues of the Ruled”
Marilyn
Friedman, Washington University
“On Being Bad and Feeling Good”
Anne
E. Barnhill, New York University
“Feminist Sexual Virtue and Feminist Sexual Vice”
Central Division Meeting: In
Chicago, the SAF sponsored two sessions. The first was the result of our annual
call for papers.
Chair: Kristen Intemann, Montana State University-Bozeman,
Speaker: Devora Shapiro, University of Minnesota “Knowledge of ‘What it’s like’: Introducing
non-propositional, x-
experiential, knowledge”
Commentator: Deborah
Heikes, University of Alabama-Huntsville
Speaker: Evelyn
Brister, Rochester Institute of Technology “The Skeptical Ploy and a Feminist Response”
Commentator: Joanne
Waugh, University of South Florida
Speaker: Sophie
Fortin, Washington University in St. Louis, “Rawls, Family, Limits of Political
Liberalism”
Commentator: Elizabeth Brake, University of
Calgary
We were fortunate in being
able to aware two $200 graduate student travel awards this year to Devora Shapiro and Evelyn Brister. These stipends come directly out of your
dues, our only source of funds, so thanks to everyone for those dues. I would like to acknowledge the University of
Minnesota’s support for Sophie Fortin’s travel.
All three papers were given by graduate students this year, which was an
unusual circumstance.
The second session was on autonomy.
Chair: Sharon Crasnow, Riverside Community College,
Speaker: Diana Tietjens Meyers, University of Connecticut, Storrs, “Two Models of Autonomy: Identity-Based Versus Action-Centered”
Commentator: Marilyn Friedman,Washington University in St. Louis
A brief business meeting
followed the session and is summarized here.
There is continued interest
in organizing a Society for Analytical Feminism conference but our key
potential organizers have been working on books and other time consuming
projects this year. Additionally, we
discussed the possibility of a journal that would be affiliated with the
society. At this time, there is strong
support for starting a journal, however, there was a general perception among
the members that I spoke with that affiliating it with the society might signal
too narrow a focus. At a recent session
on publication sponsored by the APA Committee on the Status of Women, Hilde Lindemann, the current
editor of Hypatia, expressed strong support for a new
feminist philosophy journal. At the moment, Hypatia
is turning away a large percentage of the work received. Hilde’s report of
the number of submissions to Hypatia and informal
conversations with feminists who have had difficulty placing their work
indicate that it is indeed time for another journal. Louise Antony,
Charlotte Witt, and Anita Superson have been working on the idea off and on for
a while and it seems pretty clear that there are publishers who are
interested. Charlotte has tentatively
offered to be a co-editor (she does not want to do it alone) and so, though it
has been slow to materialize, it is an idea that is not going away.
2006-2007 plans:
APA: This year we will have a session at the Eastern APA in
Washington, D.C., in keeping with our tradition of alternating between the
Eastern and Pacific meetings.
Topic: Panel discussion – “Is Standpoint Theory a Resource for Feminist Epistemology?”
Chair: Sharon Crasnow, Riverside Community College-Norco
Panelists:
Alison Wylie, University of Washington
Miriam Solomon, Temple University
Janet Kourany, University of Notre Dame
Joseph Rouse, Wesleyan University
Kristina Rolin, Helsinki School of Economics
We have occasionally held sessions at all three meetings, so if any of you has a great
idea for a session for the Pacific, let’s talk about it. The deadline for group meetings for the
Pacific is November 1 and for the Central December 1, though we need to know if
we are going to be requesting a second session by October 1.
Our Central Division session will
once again feature papers selected from the submissions we receive from the
enclosed Call for Papers. I encourage SAF members to submit papers and/or
encourage other colleagues and graduate students to submit papers. The postmark
deadline is Monday, October 9th, 2006. Although I will send out an email
reminder, this is the only hard copy of the call for papers that you will
receive, so please post and make another copy for yourself if you need a
reminder. The committee will accept full papers, or extended abstracts with an
attached bibliography. Should graduate students or underfunded
professionals have a paper accepted, they will be considered for our Travel
Stipend to help defray travel costs to the conference.
Dues and Memberships
We have also reached that time of
year when you need to renew your SAF membership and pay your dues for 2006-2007.
I have indicated on your mailing label the last year for which you have paid
dues, so please check your envelope (if the date is not listed, we don’t have
it on record, and it’s not recent). Payments made July 1st and later will be
applied to 2006-2007. Those of you who
have sent or handed me applications at the Central APA or the P-SWIP have
already paid for 2006-2007 and that should be noted on your envelope. It would be very helpful if you renewed your
membership before September 1st. Enclosed is a membership form (with
my address). There are four membership
categories: $15 employed, $5
unemployed/underemployed, $5 student, and $5 retired. The dues are small, but
they are important in funding our mailings, travel stipends and sponsorship for
conferences such as the one at the University of Western Ontario in June 2004
and perhaps one in the future. In order to save on postage costs, I will
continue the practice of emailing out a receipt for dues, but I am happy to
send out a hard copy receipt to anyone who needs it.
Notice that I have also asked for
volunteers for commentators for the Central Division sessions. Of course, we will not know until after the
papers are all in what areas we will need commentators in but if you are interested
please let us know so that we can update our database of volunteers and their
areas of expertise.
I hope you are all enjoying a
restful and productive summer and wish you the best for the upcoming academic
year.
Regards,
Sharon Crasnow
President, Society for Analytical
Feminism