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7The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2006.The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy is a definitive introduction to the field, consisting of 15 newly-contributed essays that apply philosophical methods and approaches to feminist concerns. Offers a key view of the project of centering women’s experience. Includes topics such as feminism and pragmatism, lesbian philosophy, feminist epistemology, and women in the history of philosophy.
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825DEPENDENCYIn Rachel Adams (ed.), KEYWORDS IN DISABILITY STUDIES, Nyu Press. forthcoming.Dependency is a keyword in disability studies. The article reviews the negative force of the term and why disability researchers and activists have made the case for the independence of disabled people. But dependency, I claim, is a feature of any human life and I argue that disability studies needs to neutralize the term and appropriate dependency as that which binds people, regardless of their abilities or disabilities. I argue that we can acknowledge dependency and work toward an ideal of …Read more
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603Loves Labor RevisitedHypatia 17 (3): 237-250. 2002.Love's Labor explores the relations that dependency work fosters between women and between men and women, and argues that dependency is not exceptional but integral to human life. The commentaries point to more facets of dependency such as the importance (and limitation) of personal narrative in philosophizing dependency (Ruddick); the role of spirituality that Gottlieb addresses with regard to his disabled daughter; and the application of the theory to the situation of elderly women (Tong).
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529Disability, Difference, Discrimination: Perspectives on Justice in Bioethics and Public Policy (review)Hypatia 17 (1): 209-213. 2002.
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State University of New York, Stony BrookDepartment of Philosophy
Stony Brook, New York, United States of America