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82Call for PapersHypatia 22 (3): 242-243. 2007.This essay examines the stereotype that transgender people are “deceivers” and the stereotype's role in promoting and excusing transphobic violence. The stereotype derives from a contrast between gender presentation and sexed body. Because gender presentation represents genital status, Bettcher argues, people who “misalign” the two are viewed as deceivers. The author shows how this system of gender presentation as genital representation is part of larger sexist and racist systems of violence and…Read more
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46Why Care About Gender?Hypatia 7 (3): 155-161. 1992.I address motivations that feminist philosophers have for being concerned about the "maleness" of philosophy and the "problem of difference" within feminist theory. An appropriate motivation for caring about both sets of issues is the desire not to oppress others. In order to be able to understand this motivation and to act on it, we need to retain gender as an analytical category
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100A Minimally Decent Philosophical Method: Analytic Philosophy and Feminism. Hypatia 10 (3):7-30. (review)Hypatia 10 (3): 7-30. 1995.This essay focuses on the extent to which the methods of analytic philosophy can be useful to feminist philosophers. I pose nine general questions feminist philosophers might ask to determine the suitability of a philosophical method. Examples include: Do its typical ways of formulating problems or issues encourage the inclusion of a wide variety of women's points of view? Are its central concepts gender-biased, not merely in their origin, but in very deep, continuing ways? Does it facilitate un…Read more
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5423Sex, Lies and PornographyIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), Ethics in Practice: An Anthology, Blackwell. 2002.
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Essences, intersections, and American feminismIn Cheryl Misak (ed.), The Oxford handbook of American philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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