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17The 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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1019Epistemic IdentitiesEpisteme 7 (2): 128-137. 2010.This paper explores the significant strengths of Fricker's account, and then develops the following questions. Can volitional epistemic practice correct for non-volitional prejudices? How can we address the structural causes of credibility-deflation? Are the motivations behind identity prejudice mostly other-directed or self-directed? And does Fricker aim for neutrality vis-à-vis identity, in which case her account conflicts with standpoint theory?
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20“Merleau-Ponty and Feminist Theory on Experience.”In Fred Evans Leonard Lawlor (ed.), Chiasm, Merleau-Ponty's Notion of Flesh, Suny Press. 2000.
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8On Judging Epistemic Credibility: Is Social Identity Relevant?In Naomi Zack (ed.), On Judging Epistemic Credibility: Is Social Identity Relevant?, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 235-262. 2000.
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207This volume is an act of talking back, of talking heresy. To reclaim the term “realism,” to maintain the epistemic significance of identity, to defend any version of identity politics today is to swim upstream of strong academic currents in feminist theory, literary theory, and cultural studies. It is to risk, even to invite, a dismissal as naive, uninformed, theoretically unsophisticated. And it is a risk taken here by people already at risk in the academy, already assumed more often than not t…Read more
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681The problem of speaking for othersCultural Critique 20 5-32. 1991.This was published in Cultural Critique (Winter 1991-92), pp. 5-32; revised and reprinted in Who Can Speak? Authority and Critical Identity edited by Judith Roof and Robyn Wiegman, University of Illinois Press, 1996; and in Feminist Nightmares: Women at Odds edited by Susan Weisser and Jennifer Fleischner, (New York: New York University Press, 1994); and also in Racism and Sexism: Differences and Connections eds. David Blumenfeld and Linda Bell, Rowman and Littlefield, 1995.
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202Apparently, Latinos are “taking over.” 1 With news that Latinos have become the largest minority group in the United States, the public airwaves are filled with concerned voices about the impact that a non-English dominant, Catholic, non-white, largely poor population will have on “American” identity. Aside from the hysteria, Latino identity poses some authentically new questions for the standard way in which minority identities are conceptualized. Are Latinos a race, an ethnicity, or some combi…Read more
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234The metaphysics of gender and sexual differenceIn Barbara S. Andrew, Jean Clare Keller & Lisa H. Schwartzman (eds.), Feminist Interventions in Ethics and Politics: Feminist Ethics and Social Theory, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2005.“It is certainly true, as nominalists have been concerned to acknowledge, that judgements about kinds are determined in part by human interests, projects, and practices. But the possibility that human interests, projects, and practices sometimes develop as they do because the real (physical or social) world is as it is suggests that this sort of dependence is not by itself an argument against essentialism.”.
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118Political concerns about the importance of social identity are voiced equally across left, liberal, and right wing perspectives. Moreover, the suspicion of identity is not relegated to the discourse of intellectuals but is also manifest in the mainstream as a widespread public attitude, and not only among white communities.
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22Epistemology: The Big Questions (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 1991.As well as including the classic papers from the history of epistemology, this distinctive, wide-ranging anthology provides essential coverage of key contemporary challenges to that tradition
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35Identity politics reconsidered (edited book)Palgrave-Macmillan. 2006.Based on the ongoing work of the agenda-setting Future of Minority Studies national research project, Identity Politics Reconsidered reconceptualizes the scholarly and political significance of social identity. It focuses on the deployment of “identity” within ethnic-, women’s-, disability-, and gay and lesbian studies in order to stimulate discussion about issues that are simultaneously theoretical and practical, ranging from ethics and epistemology to political theory and pedagogical practice.…Read more
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99Dreaming of IrisPhilosophy Today 52 (Supplement): 4-9. 2008.This paper provides a memoir and overview of Iris Young's philosophy and a discussion of her account of gender identity
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69Discourses of Sexual Violence in a Global FrameworkPhilosophical Topics 37 (2): 123-139. 2009.In this paper I make a preliminary analysis of Western (or global North) discourses on sexual violence, focusing on the important concepts of “consent” and “victim.” The concept of “consent” is widely used to determine whether sexual violence has occurred, and it is the focal point of debates over the legitimacy of statutory offenses and over the way we characterize sex work done under conditions involving economic desperation. The concept of “victim” is shunned by many feminists and nonfeminist…Read more
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121Justifying Feminist Social ScienceHypatia 2 (3). 1987.In this paper I set out the problem of feminist social science as the need to explain and justify its method of theory choice in relation to both its own theories and those of androcentric social science. In doing this, it needs to avoid both a positivism which denies the impact of values on scientific theory-choice and a radical relativism which undercuts the emancipatory potential of feminist research. From the relevant literature I offer two possible solutions: the Holistic and the Constructi…Read more
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103Feminist Epistemologies (edited book)Routledge. 1992."First Published in 1992, Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company."
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8Catherine Elgin has usefully diagnosed a "bipolar disorder" that continues to incapacitate philosophy and much of contemporary social theory and that inflicts its unwitting sufferers with a perpetual oscillation between equally unhappy alternatives. As she puts it.
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25Dangerous Pleasures: Foucault and the Politics of PedophiliaIn Susan Hekman (ed.), Feminist Interpretations of Foucault, Pennsylvania State Press. 1996.This paper develops a critique of Foucault's treatment of child sexual abuse in relation to his theory of the relationship between discourse and experience.
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123Real knowing: new versions of the coherence theoryCornell University Press. 1996.In provocative readings of major figures in the continental tradition, Alcoff shows that the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Michel Foucault can help rectify key ...
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55Epistemology: the big questions (edited book)Blackwell. 1998.Students of epistemology will be able to learn about and assess a wider range of epistemological issues than any other existing anthology can currently provide.
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75Fraser on Redistribution, Recognition, and IdentityEuropean Journal of Political Theory 6 (3): 255-265. 2007.This paper provides a critique of Nancy Fraser's theory of recognition and account of identity and redistribution
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35Historicism and Knowledge, by Robert D'Amico (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 52 (1): 241-243. 1992.
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |
Continental Philosophy |
Philosophy of the Americas |
Areas of Interest
19th Century Philosophy |