Lorraine Krall Mccrary
Biographic Data
| ID | 4247291 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lorraine Krall Mccrary |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lorraine Krall |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccrary |
| SIGNATURE | MCCRARY L K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wabash College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3819-6120 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Feminist Machiavellian Deception
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, best known for “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Herland , brings a colloquial Machiavellian deception to women’s political education in her sorely neglected novel, Benigna Machiavelli . Serialized in her magazine, The Forerunner , which itself is one of Gilman’s attempts to generate social change, Benigna Machiavelli gives us the character, Benigna MacAvelly, triply marginalized—female, a child, from a poor family—who becomes …
Conversation as Political Education
By constructing and analyzing a dialogue about dialogue among Plato, Mill, and Oakeshott, this paper considers conversation in the liberal arts and political theory classrooms as a form of political education that prepares students for the responsibilities of citizenship. An education in and through conversation can cultivate a disposition that is willing and able to engage with others. With less at stake in the classroom, the skills that are nec…
Bearing Witness to Natality
The accounts of Stanistawa Leszczyńska and Gisella Perl, a midwife and gynecologist at Auschwitz respectively, reveal their acts of resistance to the Nazi regime. Using Hannah Arendt’s conception of natality—which finds in birth the origins of political action—to interpret Leszczyńska’s and Perl’s accounts, I find natality present at birth in a plurality of ways that demand recognition and respect. Where political institutions do not respect nata…
A Crooked Cross”
Flannery O’Connor sees bodily difference as a ubiquitous part of the human condition, as well as a reason invoked by society and politics to displace others. O’Connor redefines “the grotesque” to refer to her exposition of the reality of human dependence in a way that shocks her readers. And this grotesque revelation of human dependence is the foundation for a politics grounded in the human need for relationships, as well as O’Connor’s response t…
The politics of community
Theorists of disability have long noted the lack of inclusion of people with disabilities in social and political life due to architectural, transportation, educational, and legal barriers, to name a few, and due to a lack of needed supports that facilitate inclusion. Examining the practices of a L’Arche community allows us to theorize another element of social and political inclusion: communities of care that support the development of agency. L…
From Hull-House to Herland
Engaged care in the family and small organizations can and should be leveraged in order to develop extended care, which is a crucial element of social and political life. However, care in politics can also be dangerous in its partiality and its propensity to control. A critical engagement with the writings and activism of Jane Addams and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, contemporaries negotiating the relationship between women's familial roles and their…
Geel’s Family Care Tradition
The human right to social inclusion is not well secured by the state alone. Rather, communities must be welcoming and flexible, adjusting to the contributions and needs of persons with disabilities. Attending to the practice of placing boarders with mental illness in family homes in Geel, Belgium—which integrates persons with disabilities not only into the family, but also into the town—highlights the limits of a legalistic approach to human righ…
From Hull-House to Herland
Engaged care in the family and small organizations can and should be leveraged in order to develop extended care, which is a crucial element of social and political life. However, care in politics can also be dangerous in its partiality and its propensity to control. A critical engagement with the writings and activism of Jane Addams and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, contemporaries negotiating the relationship between women's familial roles and their…
Geel’s Family Care Tradition
The human right to social inclusion is not well secured by the state alone. Rather, communities must be welcoming and flexible, adjusting to the contributions and needs of persons with disabilities. Attending to the practice of placing boarders with mental illness in family homes in Geel, Belgium—which integrates persons with disabilities not only into the family, but also into the town—highlights the limits of a legalistic approach to human righ…
From Hull-House to Herland
Engaged care in the family and small organizations can and should be leveraged in order to develop extended care, which is a crucial element of social and political life. However, care in politics can also be dangerous in its partiality and its propensity to control. A critical engagement with the writings and activism of Jane Addams and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, contemporaries negotiating the relationship between women's familial roles and their…
The politics of community
Theorists of disability have long noted the lack of inclusion of people with disabilities in social and political life due to architectural, transportation, educational, and legal barriers, to name a few, and due to a lack of needed supports that facilitate inclusion. Examining the practices of a L’Arche community allows us to theorize another element of social and political inclusion: communities of care that support the development of agency. L…
A Crooked Cross”
Flannery O’Connor sees bodily difference as a ubiquitous part of the human condition, as well as a reason invoked by society and politics to displace others. O’Connor redefines “the grotesque” to refer to her exposition of the reality of human dependence in a way that shocks her readers. And this grotesque revelation of human dependence is the foundation for a politics grounded in the human need for relationships, as well as O’Connor’s response t…
Bearing Witness to Natality
The accounts of Stanistawa Leszczyńska and Gisella Perl, a midwife and gynecologist at Auschwitz respectively, reveal their acts of resistance to the Nazi regime. Using Hannah Arendt’s conception of natality—which finds in birth the origins of political action—to interpret Leszczyńska’s and Perl’s accounts, I find natality present at birth in a plurality of ways that demand recognition and respect. Where political institutions do not respect nata…
Conversation as Political Education
By constructing and analyzing a dialogue about dialogue among Plato, Mill, and Oakeshott, this paper considers conversation in the liberal arts and political theory classrooms as a form of political education that prepares students for the responsibilities of citizenship. An education in and through conversation can cultivate a disposition that is willing and able to engage with others. With less at stake in the classroom, the skills that are nec…
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Feminist Machiavellian Deception
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, best known for “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Herland , brings a colloquial Machiavellian deception to women’s political education in her sorely neglected novel, Benigna Machiavelli . Serialized in her magazine, The Forerunner , which itself is one of Gilman’s attempts to generate social change, Benigna Machiavelli gives us the character, Benigna MacAvelly, triply marginalized—female, a child, from a poor family—who becomes …
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