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122(Re)fusing the amputated body: An interactionist bridge for feminism and disabilityHypatia 16 (4): 53-79. 2001.: Disabled women's issues, experiences, and embodiments have been misunderstood, if not largely ignored, by feminist as well as mainstream disability theorists. The reason for this, I argue, is embedded in the use of materialist and constructivist approaches to bodies that do not recognize the interaction between "sex" and "gender" and "impairment" and "disability" as material-semiotic. Until an interactionist paradigm is taken up, we will not be able to uncover fully the intersection between se…Read more
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135Introduction: Defining Feminist PhilosophyIn Kittay Eva Feder & Martín Alcoff Linda (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains section titled: Gender in Canonical Philosophical Writings The Emergence of Contemporary Feminist Philosophy Reflexive Critique within Philosophy Refl exive Critique within Feminist Philosophy Feminist Philosophy as a Research Program Feminist Philosophy as Transformative Notes.
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62The Global Heart Transplant and Caring across National BoundariesSouthern Journal of Philosophy 46 (S1): 138-165. 2008.
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165Cognitive Disability and its Challenge to Moral Philosophy (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2010.Through a series of essays contributed by clinicians, medical historians, and prominent moral philosophers, Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Moral ...
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243Love’s Labor: Essays on Women, Equality and DependencyRoutledge. 1999.Where society is viewed as an association of equal and autonomous persons, the work of caring for dependents, "love's labors", figure neither in political ...
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314. Metaphor as Rearranging the Furniture of the Mind: A Reply to Donald Davidson's "What Metaphors Mean"In Zdravko Radman (ed.), From a Metaphorical Point of View: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Cognitive Content of Metaphor, De Gruyter. pp. 73-116. 1995.
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246The personal is philosophical is political: A philosopher and mother of a cognitively disabled person sends notes from the battlefieldMetaphilosophy 40 (3-4): 606-627. 2009.Having encountered landmines in offering a critique of philosophy based on my experience as the mother of a cognitively disabled daughter, I ask, “Should I continue?” I defend the idea that pursuing this project is of a piece with the invisible care labor that is done by people with disabilities and their families. The value of attempting to influence philosophical conceptions of cognitive disability by virtue of this experience is justified by an inextricable relationship between the personal, …Read more
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539The Body as the Place of CareIn Donald A. Landes & Azucena Cruz-Pierre (eds.), Exploring the Work of Edward S. Casey, Bloomsbury Publishing,. 2013.
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98Contemporary industrialized societies have been confronted with the fact and consequences of women's increased participation in paid employment. Whether this increase has resulted from women's desire for equality or from changing economic circumstances, women and men have been faced with a crisis in the organization of work that concerns dependents, that is, those unable to care for themselves. This is labor that has been largely unpaid, often unrecognized, and yet is indispensable to human soci…Read more
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31Metaphor: Its Cognitive Force and Linguistic Structure by Eva Kittay (review)Journal of Philosophy 88 (6): 324-330. 1991.
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111Forever Small: The Strange Case of Ashley XHypatia 26 (3): 610-631. 2011.I explore the ethics of altering the body of a child with severe cognitive disabilities in such a way that keeps the child “forever small.” The parents of Ashley, a girl of six with severe cognitive and developmental disabilities, in collaboration with her physicians and the Hospital Ethics Committee, chose to administer growth hormones that would inhibit her growth. They also decided to remove her uterus and breast buds, assuring that she would not go through the discomfort of menstruation and …Read more
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60At the Margins of Moral PersonhoodJournal of Bioethical Inquiry 5 (2): 137-156. 2005.In this article I examine the proposition that severe cognitive disability is an impediment to moral personhood. Moral personhood, as I understand it here, is articulated in the work of Jeff McMahan as that which confers a special moral status on a person. I rehearse the metaphysical arguments about the nature of personhood that ground McMahan’s claims regarding the moral status of the “congenitally severely mentally retarded” (CSMR for short). These claims, I argue, rest on the view that only i…Read more
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268Whose convenience? Whose truth?: A comment on Peter Singer's 'A convenient truth.'201The Hastings Center Bioethics Forum, Wednesday, February 28, 2007.The Hastings Center Bioethics Forum. 2007.As parents of a young woman who very much resembles Ashley, we recognize the way her parents speak of their daughter’s preciousness, and of the love and joy she brings into their life. We know too well the hardships associated with rearing a child with severe physical and intellectual disabilities, especially in our own society, unyielding as it is to the medical needs even “normals” have. We would not have our daughter Sesha undergo similar interventions. We do not believe she is a perpetual ch…Read more
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89The identification of metaphorSynthese 58 (2): 153-202. 1984.A number of philosophers, linguists and psychologists have made the dual claim that metaphor is cognitively significant and that metaphorical utterances have a meaning not reducible to literal paraphrase. Such a position requires support from an account of metaphorical meaning that can render metaphors cognitively meaningful without the reduction to literal statement. It therefore requires a theory of meaning that can integrate metaphor within its sematics, yet specify why it is not reducible to…Read more
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819DEPENDENCYIn 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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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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601Loves 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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60The Moral Harm of Migrant CareworkPhilosophical Topics 37 (2): 53-73. 2009.Arlie Hochschild glosses the practice of women migrants in poor nations who leave their families behind for extended periods of time to do carework in other wealthier countries as a “global heart transplant” from poor to wealthy nations. Thus she signals the idea of an injustice between nations and a moral harm for the individuals in the practice. Yet the nature of the harm needs a clear articulation. When we posit a sufficiently nuanced “right to care,” we locate the harm to central relationshi…Read more
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80The Subject of Care: Feminist Perspectives on Dependency (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield. 2002.The essays of this volume consider how acknowledgement of the fact of dependency changes our conceptions of law, political theory, and morality, as well as our very conceptions of self.
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128Women and Moral Theory (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1987.To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.
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259The Ethics of Care, Dependence, and DisabilityRatio Juris 24 (1): 49-58. 2011.According to the most important theories of justice, personal dignity is closely related to independence, and the care that people with disabilities receive is seen as a way for them to achieve the greatest possible autonomy. However, human beings are naturally subject to periods of dependency, and people without disabilities are only “temporarily abled.” Instead of seeing assistance as a limitation, we consider it to be a resource at the basis of a vision of society that is able to account for …Read more
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1Of “men” and metaphors: Shakespeare, embodiment, and filing cabinetsIn T. B. Ward, S. M. Smith & J. Viad (eds.), Creative Thought: An Investigation of Conceptual Structures and Processes, American Psychological Association. 1997.
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75A feminist public ethic of care meets the new communitarian family policyEthics 111 (3): 523-547. 2001.
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21Ideal theory bioethics and the exclusion of people with severe cognitive disabilitiesIn Hilde Lindemann, Marian Verkerk & Margaret Urban Walker (eds.), Naturalized Bioethics: Toward Responsible Knowing and Practice, Cambridge University Press. 2008.
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State University of New York, Stony BrookDepartment of Philosophy
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