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1647Reproductive 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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935This 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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Dworkin on Disablement and ResourcesCanadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 9 (2): 343-359. 1996.
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51Book review: Susan Wendell. The rejected body: Feminist philosophical reflections on disability. New York: Routledge, 1996 (review)Hypatia 12 (2): 219-223. 1997.
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155Foucault and the Government of Disability (edited book)University of Michigan Press. 2005.The provocative essays in this volume respond to Foucault's call to question what is regarded as natural, inevitable, ethical, and liberating, while they ...
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594Stemming the tide of normalisation: An expanded feminist analysis of the ethics and social impact of embryonic stem cell researchJournal of Bioethical Inquiry 3 (1-2): 33-42. 2006.Feminists have indicated the inadequacies of bioethical debates about human embryonic stem cell research, which have for the most part revolved around concerns about the moral status of the human embryo. Feminists have argued, for instance, that inquiry concerning the ethics and politics of human embryonic stem cell research should consider the relations of social power in which the research is embedded. My argument is that this feminist work on stem cells is itself inadequate, however, insofar …Read more
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