Birth, Death, and Femininity: Philosophies of Embodiment

Acknowledgments

acknowlEDgMEntS This book is a result of cooperation and dialogue.over several years we have been studying original sources and contemporary research contributions together, discussing arguments, concepts, and methods for studying birth, death, and femininity. over this period, we have become indebted to many institutions and individuals, whom we would like to acknowledge here. The authors of this book originally met in November 1999 at a conference entitled“Rereading the canon: Feminist Interpretations of the History of Philosophy,” organized by Lilli Alanen at the University of Uppsala. Without Lilli Alanen’s initiative, which was groundbreaking in the Nordic countries,we would have had neither the idea nor the opportunity to initiate this collaborative relationship. We would like to thank NoS-H for supporting our research, first through a project-planning grant and subsequently through a research grant. Without this support, this project would not have been possible. We have held research meetings and symposia at, or received support from, the University of Bergen, the University of copenhagen, Helsinki University, and the University of Iceland (in particular the EDDA center of Excellence). We held additional meetings at the Finnish Institute in Rome (with special thanks to Simo orma and Mika Kajava at Villa Lante for providing us this opportunity on several occasions), the Norwegian Institute in Rome (with special thanks to Turid Karlsen-Seim for hosting a meeting ), and the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris. The Academy of Finland and Helsinki collegium for Advanced Studies funded the “International Symposium on Femininity and Embodiment” held in Helsinki in 2007, where we presented some of our work. We also had the opportunity to present work at the meeting of the International Association of Women Philosophers at the University of Gothenborg in 2004. Sara Heinämaa would like to give special thanks to the following people: Penelope Deutscher, Robert Hanna, Juha Himanka, Dan Lloyd, Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen,Timo Miettinen,Anthony Steinbock,Joona Taipale, and Dan Zahavi. She would also like to thank Dan Zahavi for hosting her research period at the center for Subjectivity Research at the University of copenhagen in 2006, and the Academy of Finland and Helsingin Sanomat Foundation for supporting this work financially. x acknowledgments Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir would also like to thank the center for Subjectivity Research at the University of copenhagen for providing working accommodations during a sabbatical in 2007, and the Deutscher AkademischerAustauschdienst for a grant for a research visit to Germany in 2008. She is very grateful for comments on her chapters from Penelope Deutscher, Daphne Hampson, and Werner Stegmaier and his Nietzsche colloquium at the University of Greifswald. We would also like to thank claudia card who provided very useful suggestions for the manuscript. Finally,we are grateful not only to those who enabled our collaboration, but for the fact of this collaboration itself. our meetings have provided us with intellectual inspiration, direction, humor, and solace that have made this collaboration one of the outstanding events in our academic careers. Birth, Death, and Femininity ...