1. Does Hypatia Rock Boats?
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Holmes, Helen Bequaert
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AUTHORS , *FEMINIST ethics , *MEDICINE , *HEALING - Abstract
This article responds to Esther Frances' commentary, Some Thoughts on the Content of Hypatia, in the Fall 1990 issue of Hypatia. Frances is quite right in discerning that writers may lose their faculty status, and that Hypatia may lose its standing, if editors and writers deviate too far from the party line of their old men. Even in Hypatia's present cadre, many of both sexes will not subscribe and fear to contribute. The department chair of one potential contributor to Hypatia told her not to waster her time writing for the journal because papers in Hypatia would not count in her bid for tenure. It is likely that some authors have failed to get tenure or promotion because of their papers in this journal--or perhaps they succeeded only by leaving their Hypatia papers off their publication lists. One of France's points in the special issue on Feminist Ethics and Medicine is that she did not read a discussion of the philosophical bases of alternate systems of healing. The glib answer is that we cannot publish anything that was not submitted.
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- 1990
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