Re-Coupling Gender and Genre

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Notes

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1. See “Cheveux longs, idées courtes” in L’Imaginaire philosophique (Paris: Payot, 1980). Translated by Colin Gordon as “Long Hair, Short Ideas” in The Philosophical Imaginary (London: Athlone, 1989). An English translation of an earlier version of this chapter appeared as “Woman and Philosophy,” Radical Philosophy 17 (summer 1977): 2–11. See also Hipparchia's Choice: An Essay Concerning Women, Philosophy etc., trans. Trista Selous (Oxford: Blackwell, 1990).

2. There is a program available online that claims to be able to predict with some accuracy the gender of authors who submit a piece of writing. One is asked to select the “genre” of that writing: “fiction” or “non-fiction.” See <http://bookblog.net/gender/genie.php>.

3. Hayden White, “Commentary: Good of their Kind,” New Literary History 34 (2003): 367–76 (376 fn. 3).