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Putting the sex back into gender
Source: Enlightenment
Author: Diana Mertz Hsieh
Country: United States

Subtitled "A Tentative Theory Of Femininity And Sexuality." "Much of the basic thesis of this essay was turned into the essay 'Sex and Gender through an Egoist Lens: Masculinity and femininity in the philosophy of Ayn Rand' published in 1999 in the anthology 'Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand'." (1996)

The heirs of Ayn Rand: has Objectivism gone subjective?
Source: Lingua Franca
Author: Scott McLemee
Country: United States

An interesting examination of Rand and her legacy. (7/99)

Objectivism and Thomas Jefferson
Source: Eyler Robert Coates, Sr.
Author: Eyler Robert Coates, Sr.
Country: United States
E-mail: Obj-TJ@eyler.freeservers.com

Seven essays examining the relationship between Ayn Rand's objectivism and Thomas Jefferson's political and philosophical ideas.

The Ayn Rand college transcript
Source: The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies
Author: Chris Sciabarra
Country: United States

Sciabarra writes, "Having recovered Rand's college transcript, I am now in a position to shed greater light on this subject .... This essay provides a brief discussion of the transcript's contents and concludes with some reflections on one important pattern that I see in Rand's studies." (Fall 1999)

Dialectics and Objectivism
Source: Timothy D. Chase
Country: United States
E-mail: odysseus@trail.com

Devoted to the study of the relationship between dialectics and Objectivism, a growing field of scholarly research since Chris Matthew Sciabarra's "Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical" revealed Rand's essentially dialectical methodology.

Reason and the Structure of Reality
Source: Dialectics and Objectivism
Author: Timothy D. Chase
Country: United States
E-mail: odysseus@trail.com

Paper focusing on a number of issues regarding the relationship between metaphysics and epistemology in Objectivism.

Objectivism and the corruption of rationality
Source: Scott Ryan
Country: United States
E-mail: SandGRyan@worldnet.att.net

A critical dissection of Ayn Rand's epistemology. "Why bother writing a critique of Ayn Rand's epistemology? First of all, Rand still exercises an altogether undue influence ... among classical liberals and libertarians who ought to know better." (2000)

Abstracts from the Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, Spring 2001
Source: Journal of Ayn Rand Studies
Country: United States

Content summation for the Spring, 2001 issue of JARS -- the "first comprehensive scholarly forum on Rand's aesthetics ever published." (05/01)

Ayn Rand's approach to sexuality
Source: Randian Feminism
Author: Bryan Register
Country: United States

Among other aspects of Rand's approach to sex, Bryan Register investigates "the darker underside of Rand's bizarre sexual ontology." This analysis is from a feminist perspective and has occasioned great debate on the Randian Feminism e-mail list. (5/00)

A renaissance in Rand scholarship
Source: NYU
Author: Chris Sciabarra
Country: United States

Sciabarra analyzes a trend: "Ayn Rand seems to be everywhere: in magazines, from the New Yorker to U.S. News and World Report; in film and theater, from an Oscar-nominated documentary feature to a Showtime cable movie and a British stage dramatization of 'The Passion of Ayn Rand'; and on television, from 'The Simpsons' to 'South Park.'" (1998)

Rand v. Rothbard
Source: Lew Rockwell
Author: Joseph Stromberg
Country: United States

Stromberg's incisive analysis of the charges that Rothbard plagiarized portions of his work from Objectivist circles. A glimpse into the psychology of Rand and her intimates.

The female hero: a Randian-feminist synthesis
Source: Thomas Gramstad
Author: Thomas Gramstad
Country: United States

Gramstad's essay was first published in the anthology "Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand," edited by Mimi Reisel Gladstein and Chris Matthew Sciabarra, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. Contains many interesting links.

Sciabarra on objectivism and academe
Source: Chris Sciabarra
Author: Chris Sciabarra
Country: United States

Randian scholar Chris Sciabarra opens his essay, "The penetration of Objectivism into the academy is taking place through two basic means: First, through the scholarly discussion of Ayn Rand and her legacy. Second, by the extension and application of Ayn Rand’s philosophy to an ever-growing list of disciplines." A fine discussion.

Rand's view of sexuality
Source: POP
Author: Thomas Gramsted
Country: United States

"The Female Hero: A Randian-Feminist Synthesis" by Gramsted first appeared in the essay anthology Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand, edited by Mimi Reisel Gladstein and Chris Matthew Sciabarra, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999.

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