Gender and Equality between Women and Men in Tullia d’Aragona’s Dialogue on the Infinity of Love

Tullia d’Aragona (ca. 1510–1556), a poet and courtesan, enters the renaissance tradition of love dialogues with her philosophical work Dialogo della Infinità di Amore (Dialogue on the Infinity of Love, 1547). Tullia d’Aragona is the only female writer in the renaissance tradition oflove dialogues (Russell 1997, 21). Her account of love is impregnated by the idea of equality between women and men. This essay focuses on gender issues in Dialogue on the Infinity of Love and is composed of three parts. In the first part, I examine Dialogue’s passages where the issues of women’s true nature and equality between women and men are explicitly mentioned, so as to explore Tullia d’Aragona’s conceptions of gender and gender equality, as emerged from those passages. In the second part, I explore the following questions: (a) What does the incorporation of intercourse in honest love imply for Tullia d’Aragona’s conception of gendered human beings? I argue that it implies that she conceives of both women and men as autonomous pshyco-corporeal units. (b) What does Tullia d’Aragona’s account of honest love imply for gender and morality in general? I argue that it advocates in favor of a unified morality of love on the basis of both genders’ common humanity. In the last part, I reflect on the Dialogue from the perspective of a feminist history of philosophy. I argue that the fact that the idea of gender equality pervades the Dialogue both leads to the development of a feminist account of love and advocates for Tullia d’Aragona’s capacity to do philosophy. © 2020, The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Nuclear Energy and Proliferation Resistance: Securing Benefits, Limiting Risks

Global electricity demand is expected to increase by more than 50 percent by 2025 and nuclear power is a primary carbon-free energy source for meeting this extensive global energy expansion. At the same time, the technologies used in peaceful nuclear power programs overlap with those used in the production of fissionable material for nuclear weapons. This report examines technological steps that the US can take to enhance the proliferation resistance of nuclear power systems

The S-Word: Discourse, Stereotypes, and the American Indian Woman

What’s in a name? Plenty when it comes to the ability of words to establish identity. In 2005 in Oregon, for example, 142 land features carried the name ‘‘squaw’’—Squaw Gulch, Squaw Butte, Squaw Meadows, and Squaw Flat Reservoir (U.S. Geological Survey, 2008). This article examines the term squaw, its presentation in popular culture, and how this framing constructs Native womanhood in the public imagination. Two primary representations are revealed in the discourse defining squaw: as sexual punching bag and as drudge. The opinions and attitudes of reporters, citizens (Indian and non-Indian), government officials, agencies, and tribal representatives are included as reflected in journalistic accounts of the land form debate about the use and meaning of the label squaw. The psychological impact of this racial and sexual slur has a significant negative impact on quality of life, perceptions, and opportunities for Native American women (ethnostress) due to the consistent use and reification of the squaw stereotype through more than 400 years of U.S. history. This article is written as part of a larger body of work that argues for an expansion of Schroeder and Borgerson’s (2005, 2008) representational ethics of images to include words