Heidi Bostic
Biographic Data
| ID | 102214 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heidi Bostic |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heidi |
| FAMILY NAME | Bostic |
| SIGNATURE | BOSTIC H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan Technological University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4378-2757 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Greimas and gender
How may Greimassian narrative semiotics join forces with feminist inquiry? This essay begins with an analysis of a cake recipe from Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue and A. J. Greimas’s “Basil Soup, or the Construction of an Object of Value.” MacIntyre and Greimas raise the issue of gender in distinct ways. MacIntyre’s dismissive attitude toward traditionally feminine household duties contrasts with Greimas’s careful analysis and his unexpected i…
To address the Anthropocene, engage the liberal arts
Sexual Education as Enlightenment in Riccoboni's Lettres de Mistriss Fanni Butlerd à Mylord Charles Alfred and Histoire du Marquis de Cressy
This article examines Marie Jeanne Riccoboni's first two novels as testimonials in favor of an expanded understanding of Enlightenment that is broad enough to address women's experiences and contributions within both the social world and the intellectual project of eighteenth-century France. The trope of sexual education as Enlightenment serves as a lens through which to read the novels. On the surface, these two works would seem to be simply com…
Reading and Rethinking the Subject in Luce Irigaray's Recent Work
Luce Irigaray and Love
This article responds to recent criticisms of Luce Irigaray' I Love to You by inviting the reader to attend to the resources for theorizing being-two in love offered in this book as well as in Irigaray' larger corpus. Irigaray' focus on male/female relationships is a strategic choice that does not endorse compulsory heterosexuality. Her thought on the negative, on silence and on listening contributes to a theory of relational identity that can le…
Thinking life as relation
Thinking life as relation
Reading and Rethinking the Subject in Luce Irigaray's Recent Work
Luce Irigaray and Love
This article responds to recent criticisms of Luce Irigaray' I Love to You by inviting the reader to attend to the resources for theorizing being-two in love offered in this book as well as in Irigaray' larger corpus. Irigaray' focus on male/female relationships is a strategic choice that does not endorse compulsory heterosexuality. Her thought on the negative, on silence and on listening contributes to a theory of relational identity that can le…
Sexual Education as Enlightenment in Riccoboni's Lettres de Mistriss Fanni Butlerd à Mylord Charles Alfred and Histoire du Marquis de Cressy
This article examines Marie Jeanne Riccoboni's first two novels as testimonials in favor of an expanded understanding of Enlightenment that is broad enough to address women's experiences and contributions within both the social world and the intellectual project of eighteenth-century France. The trope of sexual education as Enlightenment serves as a lens through which to read the novels. On the surface, these two works would seem to be simply com…
Greimas and gender
How may Greimassian narrative semiotics join forces with feminist inquiry? This essay begins with an analysis of a cake recipe from Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue and A. J. Greimas’s “Basil Soup, or the Construction of an Object of Value.” MacIntyre and Greimas raise the issue of gender in distinct ways. MacIntyre’s dismissive attitude toward traditionally feminine household duties contrasts with Greimas’s careful analysis and his unexpected i…
To address the Anthropocene, engage the liberal arts
Sociology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Simone de Beauvoir and Sartre (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)