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1105Review of Christine Overall`s Why Have Children? The Ethical Debate' (review)Apa Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy 12 (2): 20-22. 2013.
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926Philosophy and the Apparatus of DisabilityIn Adam Cureton & David Wasserman (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Disability, Oxford University Press. 2020.Abstract and Keywords Mainstream philosophers take for granted that disability is a prediscursive, transcultural, and transhistorical disadvantage, an objective human defect or characteristic that ought to be prevented, corrected, eliminated, or cured. That these assumptions are contestable, that it might be the case that disability is a historically and culturally specific, contingent social phenomenon, a complex apparatus of power, rather than a natural attribute or property that certain peopl…Read more
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1007Biopower, Styles of Reasoning, and What's Still Missing from the Stem Cell DebatesHypatia 25 (3). 2010.Until now, philosophical debate about human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research has largely been limited to its ethical dimensions and implications. Although the importance and urgency of these ethical debates should not be underestimated, the almost undivided attention that mainstream and feminist philosophers have paid to the ethical dimensions of hESC research suggests that the only philosophically interesting questions and concerns about it are by and large ethical in nature. My argument goe…Read more
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166On the Subject of ImpairmentIn Mairian Corker Tom Shakespeare (ed.), Disability/Postmodernity: Embodying Disability Theory, Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 32. 2002.
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1705Reproductive freedom, self-regulation, and the government of impairment in uteroHypatia 21 (1): 35-53. 2006.: This article critically examines the constitution of impairment in prenatal testing and screening practices and various discourses that surround these technologies. While technologies to test and screen prenatally are claimed to enhance women's capacity to be self-determining, make informed reproductive choices, and, in effect, wrest control of their bodies from a patriarchal medical establishment, I contend that this emerging relation between pregnant women and reproductive technologies is a …Read more
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974This is What a Historicist and Relativist Feminist Philosophy of Disability Looks LikeFoucault Studies (19): 7. 2015.ABSTRACT: With this article, I advance a historicist and relativist feminist philosophy of disability. I argue that Foucault’s insights offer the most astute tools with which to engage in this intellectual enterprise. Genealogy, the technique of investigation that Friedrich Nietzsche famously introduced and that Foucault took up and adapted in his own work, demonstrates that Foucault’s historicist approach has greater explanatory power and transgressive potential for analyses of disability than …Read more
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