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40Core Workout: A Feminist Critique of Definitions, Hyperfemininity, and the Medicalization of FitnessInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 9 (2): 46-66. 2016.“Look Great Naked!” “Sexy Legs Now!” “Score a Perfect 10 Body!” These invitations appear regularly on the covers of glossy fitness magazines, always beside a photograph of a too-perfect-not-to-be-airbrushed, generally scantily clad, young woman. Are they really invitations or are they imperatives? What should we make of the apparently presumed connection between fitness and sex? These are the questions that drive this article, in which we distinguish between fitness and sport and provide a femin…Read more
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54Don’t bring it on: the case against cheerleading as a collegiate sportJournal of the Philosophy of Sport 40 (2): 255-277. 2013.The 2010 Quinnipiac cheerleading case raises interesting questions about the nature of both cheerleading and sport, as well as about the moral character of each. In this paper we explore some of those questions, and argue that no form of college cheerleading currently in existence deserves, from a moral point of view, to be recognized as a sport for Title IX purposes. To reach that conclusion, we evaluate cheerleading using a quasi-legal argument based on the NCAA’s definition of sport and concl…Read more
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8Are runners obsessive/compulsive, narcissistic masochists?The Philosophers' Magazine 58 95-100. 2012.
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More than meets the "I" : values of dangerous sportIn Stephen E. Schmid (ed.), Climbing - Philosophy for Everyone: Because It's There, Wiley-blackwell. 2010.
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