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Engaging Nietzsche's Women: Ofelia Schutte and the Madres de la Plaza de Mayo

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Debra B. Bergoffen
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Abstract

Ofelia Schutte's relationship to Nietzsche is contentious. Sometimes she identifies him as an ally. Sometimes she calls him an enemy. Appealing to Nietzsche's abolition of the appearance reality distinction and to his discussions of women as skeptics, I turn to Ofelia's discussions of the Madres de la Plaza de Mayo to suggest that their protests can be understood as a Nietzschean politics of transvaluation where the myth of the mother and the materialities of women's bodies become the ground of the demand for justice.

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Hypatia , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , Summer 2004 , pp. 157 - 168
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Copyright © 2004 by Hypatia, Inc.

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