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43Sisterhood Is Powerless: Review of Woman's Inhumanity to Woman by Phyllis Chester (review)The Women's Review of Books 19 (8): 6-7. 2002.
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15Isms in Collision: Review of Inessential Woman by Elizabeth V. Spelman (review)The New York Times Book Review. 1989.
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1Review of Feminist Politics and Human Nature by Alison Jaggar (review)The Center Review (The Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon). 1986.
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33Famous Lust Words: A Review of Pure Lust: Elemental Feminist Philosophy by Mary Daly (review)The Women's Review of Books 1 (11): 3-4. 1984.
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31Feminism and Physics: An Uneasy Marriage -- A Review of The Anatomy of Freedom: Feminism, Physics and Global Politics by Robin Morgan (review)New Women's Times Feminist Review (29): 8-10. 1983.
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3Courting Gender Justice: A Review of Sexual Harassment of Working Women by Catharine A. MacKinnon (review)New Women's Times Feminist Review (17): 10-11. 1981.
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18Review of The Coming Out Stories, edited by Susan J. Wolfe and Julia Penelope Stanley (review)Sinister Wisdom 14 97-98. 1981.
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19Review of Language and Ontology by Jack Kaminsky (review)The Philosophical Review 80 (3): 394-396. 1971.
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56Category Skepticism and its Cure: A Comment on José Medina's 'Identity Trouble: Disidentification and the Problem of Difference'Symposia on Gender, Race and Philosophy 1 (1). 2005.
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259Categories in DistressIn Barbara S. Andrew, Jean Clare Keller & Lisa H. Schwartzman (eds.), Feminist Interventions in Ethics and Politics: Feminist Ethics and Social Theory, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 41-58. 2005.Images of species, sets, and containers, combined with an obsolete positivist theory of meaning and a curiously illogical interpretation of a structuralist understanding of meaning, together have driven feminists and their critics to find unavoidable essentialism and binary totalism in feminist theorists' use of the category WOMEN. This paper explores an enriched imagination for how categories can be structured internally and in relations to other categories, and proposes that we need to think c…Read more
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64Intra-feminist Critique: Modes of DisengagementAmerican Philosophical Association Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy (2): 85-87. 2001.
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556OppressionIn Lorraine Code (ed.), Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories, Routledge. pp. 370. 2000.Encyclopedia entry.
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25Chauvinism, maleIn Lorraine Code (ed.), Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories, Routledge. pp. 76. 2000.Encyclopedia entry.
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33HomophobiaIn Lorraine Code (ed.), Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories, Routledge. pp. 254-255. 2000.Encyclopedia entry.
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41Categories and DichotomiesIn Lorraine Code (ed.), Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories, Routledge. pp. 73-74. 2000.Encyclopedia entry. Explains "dichotomous," "binary," "absolute opposite," and "polar opposite" as applied to social categories, explaining feminist critical concerns about gender categories. Not all categorizing is dichotomous or binary. Gender categories may function as binary or dichotomous in some contexts but not in others.
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46FeminismIn Lorraine Code (ed.), Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories, Routledge. pp. 195-197. 2000.Encyclopedia entry.
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44Feminist PhilosophyIn John V. Canfield (ed.), Philosophy of Meaning, Knowledge and Value in the Twentieth Century: Routledge History of Philosophy Volume 10, Routledge. pp. 307-341. 1997.
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109A Response to Lesbian EthicsHypatia 5 (3): 132-137. 1990.Lesbian Ethics seems to address a need for an alternative to heteropatriarchal ethics. That need appears to have two suspect sources: a concept of agency which requires that agents know what is right; and a notion women may have that by being "good" we can escape the degraded status of females and achieve a status of citizeness, or honorary male. Instead of providing such an ethic, the book may show us how to live without it.
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105The Possibility of Feminist TheoryIn Deborah L. Rhode (ed.), Theoretical Perspectives on Sexual Difference, Yale University Press. pp. 174-184. 1990.
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31The Body PhilosophicalIn Cheris Kramarae & Dale Spender (eds.), The Knowledge Explosion Generations of Feminist Scholarship, Teachers College Press. pp. 125-131. 1992.
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55Critique (Response to "Adult-Child Sex" by Robert Ehman)In Robert Baker & Frederick Elliston (eds.), Philosophy and Sex (Second Edition), Prometheus Books. pp. 447-455. 1984.
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41On SayingAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 13 (2): 123-127. 1976.In this paper I present a sorting and accounting of a variety of things which fall or might fall under the rubric "saying something." The object is clarification--the illumination of an area which can be a source of much confusion in discussion and analysis of speech acts. The point of departure is Austin's initial analysis of saying, in which he tries to set out the "acts" or "doings" which are supposed to be in some sense the elements of the total act of saying. From this, I develop an analysi…Read more
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188Arrogance and LoveIn Paula A. Treichler, Cheris Kramarae & Beth Stafford (eds.), For Alma Mater: Theory and Practice in Feminist Scholarship, University of Illinois Press. pp. 261-271. 1985.This essay is adapted from Frye, Marilyn (1983). "In and Out of Harm's Way: Arrogance and Love." In The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory. Trumansburg, NY: The Crossing Press. pp. 52-83. (For more details on The Politics of Reality, see the PhilPapers link below.)
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19Comment: Response to Wilder's 'Mother/Nature,' and Ruddick's 'Maternal Thinking'In Albert C. Cafagna, Richard T. Peterson & Craig A. Staudenbaur (eds.), Philosophy, Children and the Family, Plenum Press. pp. 127-130. 1982.I very much welcome Professor Wilder’s debunking of Rossi’s theses and arguments and I wholeheartedly share his rejection of that sort of biological determinism and his recognition of the unnaturalness of all human behavior. That last is, I think, an essential first step toward our assuming responsibility for how things are. However, I am not as comfortable as he seems to be with the liberal anyone-can-parent line of thought. What gives me pause about that may be some of the same experience and …Read more
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