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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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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
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3Epistemologies of ignoranceIn Shannon Sullivan Nancy Tuana (ed.), Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance, . 2007.
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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
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |
Continental Philosophy |
Philosophy of the Americas |
Areas of Interest
19th Century Philosophy |