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<p>"Dr. McAlister was adamant that the journal be called Hypatia, for the fourth-century Alexandrian mathematician, astronomer and Neoplatonist philosopher who was skinned alive and burned by Christian zealots outraged by her pagan beliefs."</p>
Linda Lopez McAlister, a philosophy and women's studies professor and a founder of Hypatia, a feminist journal that was the first major publication of its kind, died Nov. 9 at her home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She was 82.
She was among a collective of philosophy professors who started Hypatia, the first major scholarly publication to view the discipline from a feminist lens.