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Learning to Think Intercontinentally: Finding Australian Routes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Christine Battersby
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Abstract

This introductory essay argues that it is a mistake to represent Australian feminist philosophy as a kind of discourse theory that is “downstream” of the French post-structuralists or North American postmodernists. Starting with the local—and the specifically Australian modes of racial exclusion, in particular—and exploring some of the byways of philosophy, what we encounter is a range of ontological, ethical, and political models that allow a reconfiguration of self, community, and social change.

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Hypatia , Volume 15 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Going Australian: Reconfiguring Feminism and Philosophy , Spring 2000, pp. 1 - 17
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Copyright © 2000 by Hypatia, Inc.

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