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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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11Cultural feminism versus post-structuralism: The identity crisis in feminist theorySigns 13 (3): 405--436. 1988.
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2Philosophy Matters (review)Signs 25 (3): 841-882. 2000.This paper provides an overview of feminist philosophy published in the 1990's, covering work in epistemology, the history of philosophy, social philosophy, and metaphysics.
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25Are 'old wives' tales' justifiedIn Linda Alcoff & Elizabeth Potter (eds.), Feminist Epistemologies, Routledge. pp. 217--244. 1992.
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292Introduction: When feminisms intersect epistemologyIn Linda Alcoff & Elizabeth Potter (eds.), Feminist Epistemologies, Routledge. pp. 1--14. 1992.
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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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34Identity 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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118Discourses 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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114Feminist Epistemologies (edited book)Routledge. 1992."First Published in 1992, Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company."
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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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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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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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54Epistemology: 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.
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Gender and ReproductionAsian Journal of Women's Studies 14 (4): 7-27. 2008.This paper provides a materialist approach to defining gender identity.
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79Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the SelfOxford University Press USA. 2006.In the heated debates over identity politics, few theorists have looked carefully at the conceptualizations of identity assumed by all sides. Visible Identities fills this gap. Drawing on both philosophical sources as well as theories and empirical studies in the social sciences, Martín Alcoff makes a strong case that identities are not like special interests, nor are they doomed to oppositional politics, nor do they inevitably lead to conformism, essentialism, or reductive approaches to judging…Read more
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |
Continental Philosophy |
Philosophy of the Americas |
Areas of Interest
19th Century Philosophy |