Hypatia

Battersby, Christine, 1946-
Learning to Think Intercontinentally: Finding Australian Routes
Hypatia - Volume 15, Number 2, Spring 2000, pp. 1-17

Indiana University Press

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.