Gender, Race and Philosophy: The Blog

Linda Alcoff essay on The Stone

Note that there is a piece by Linda Alcoff in the NYT online forum, The Stone, that may be of interest to our readers:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/08/when-culture-power-and-sex-collide/?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=thab1

Moya on Race and Culture

The On The Human Forum has just completed an excellent discussion of race and culture, prompted by Paula Moya's essay "A Story in Two Parts, With an Ending Yet To Be Written."  Find it here:

http://onthehuman.org/2011/05/story-in-two-parts/

Enjoy!

Discussion on Brake's "Minimal Marriage"

Readers of GRP: The Blog may have noticed Sally's posting about Elizabeth Brake's "Minimal Marriage: What Political Liberalism Implies for Marriage Law," Ethics 120.  Anyone with an interest may want to head over to PEA Soup for a discussion of Brake's piece, complete with free access to her article.  The discussion, which begins on June 1, will be introduced by a critical précis by Cheshire Calhoun.  More information is available here.

Feminist Carnival #53

Just got this link to the Feminist Carnival #53 off the blog Feminist Philosophers (a fabulous blog, by the way, with a great blogroll of additional feminist blogs) and couldn't resist linking to it here...lots of interesting, horrifying, hysterical, ridiculous stuff....some may be good teaching tools too.

I seem to be getting carried away here...I'm not trying to take over the blog, believe me! --SH