March 18, 1998
Dear Norman Swartz,
Just to tell you how much I like your piece on 'blood sports'. As you
have no doubt been told by now, a number of feminist philosophers have
offered similar views. Probably the best-known of the feminist articles is
Janice Moulton's 'A Paradigm of Philosophy: The Adversary Method'. This
appears in a variety of anthologies of feminist philosophy, including
Sandra Harding and Merrill B. Hintikka (eds.), Discovering Reality
(Reidel, 1983); also Ann Garry and Marilyn Pearsall (eds.), Women,
Knowledge and Reality (1st ed. Unwin Hyman, 1989; 2nd ed. Routledge,
1996). Moulton's piece is less personalised and also more historically
located than yours.
However, I quite like the fact that your article contains a personal
narrative, and also that it raises issues about women in philosophy, yet
seems untouched by feminist debates. As such, I would quite like to publish
a shortened version of this piece in Women's Philosophy Review (ISSN
1369-4324). This is a UK journal that I edit out of the University of
Warwick. Previously only available to members of the UK Society of Women in
Philosophy, it has been available to the general public from issue no. 17
(Summer/Autumn 1997).
I would be interested to know if you get hostile replies to your
piece--from women and/or men.
Co-operatively!
Christine Battersby
Dr. Christine Battersby
Dept. of Philosophy,
University of Warwick,
Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK.
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