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18The Myth of Woman Meets the Myth of Old Age An Alienating Encounter with the Aging Female BodyIn Silvia Stoller (ed.), Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Age: Gender, Ethics, De Gruyter. pp. 47-64. 2014.
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55Sex-Selective Abortion: A Relational ApproachHypatia 10 (1): 202-217. 1995.A critical application of Ruddick's model of maternal thinking is the best way to grapple with the ethical dilemmas posed by sex- selective abortion which I view as a "moral mistake." Chief among these is the need to be sensitive to local cultural practices in countries where sex- selective abortion is prevalent, while simultaneously developing consistent international standards to deal with the dangers posed by the use of sex- selective abortion to eliminate female fetuses
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1Interview with Professor Gail WeissPerspectives: International Postgraduate Journal of Philosophy 1 (1): 3-8. 2008.An interview with Gail Weiss concerning her interests and influences, especially the body and embodiment.
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119Ambiguity, Absurdity, And Reversibility: lndetenninacy In De Beauvoir, Camus, And Merleau-pontyBulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française 5 (1): 71-83. 1993.none
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516The Anonymous intentions of transactional bodiesHypatia 17 (4): 187-200. 2002.: This review offers a critical analysis of Shannon Sullivan's "feminist pragmatist standpoint theory" as a framework for thinking about issues of identity and truth. Sullivan claims that Maurice Merleau-Ponty's emphasis on an anonymous or pre-personal quality to bodily experience commits him to a false universality and that his understanding of bodily intentionality traps him in a subjectivist philosophy that is incapable of doing justice to difference. She suggests that phenomenology in genera…Read more
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97Reading/writing between the linesContinental Philosophy Review 31 (4): 387-409. 1998.This paper critically examines the practices of reading and writing through the differing perspectives offered by Kierkegaard, Sartre, Barthes, Foucault, and Derrida. Although Kierkegaard''s and Sartre''s respective views on reading and writing do not receive much attention today, I argue that both articulate (albeit in different ways) a notion of shared responsibility between reader and writer that is compatible with their respective emphases on absolute responsibility for oneself, for others, …Read more
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29Dilthey's conception of objectivity in the human studies: A reply to Gadamer (review)Man and World 24 (4): 471-486. 1991.
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261The normal, the natural, and the normative: A Merleau-Pontian legacy to feminist theory, critical race theory, and disability studiesContinental Philosophy Review 48 (1): 77-93. 2015.This essay argues that Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of embodiment can be an extremely helpful ally for contemporary feminist theorists, critical race theorists, and disability studies scholars because his work suggests that the gender, race, and ability of bodies are not innate or fixed features of those bodies, much less corporeal indicators of physical, social, psychic, and even moral inferiority, but are themselves dynamic phenomena that have the potential to overturn accepted notions of nor…Read more
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Mothers/intellectuals : alterities of a dual identityIn Helen Fielding, Hiltmann Gabrielle, Olkowski Dorothea & Reichold Anne (eds.), The other: feminist reflections in ethics, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 138. 2007.
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31Ambiguity, absurdity, and reversibility: responses to indeterminacyJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 26 (1): 43-51. 1995.
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24The Anonymous Intentions of Transactional BodiesHypatia 17 (4): 187-200. 2002.This review offers a critical analysis of Shannon Sullivan's “feminist pragmatist standpoint theory” as a framework for thinking about issues of identity and truth. Sullivan claims that Maurice Merleau-Ponty's emphasis on an anonymous or pre-personal quality to bodily experience commits him to a false universality and that his understanding of bodily intentionality traps him in a subjectivist philosophy that is incapable of doing justice to difference. She suggests that phenomenology in general …Read more
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28Review of Penelope Deutscher, The Philosophy of Simone De Beauvoir: Ambiguity, Conversion, Resistance (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (2). 2009.
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64De-Naturalizing the Natural Attitude: A Husserlian Legacy to Social PhenomenologyJournal of Phenomenological Psychology 47 (1): 1-16. 2016.This essay focuses on Husserl’s conception of the natural attitude, which, I argue, is one of his most important contributions to contemporary phenomenology. I offer a critical exploration of this concept’s productive explanatory potential for feminist theory, critical race theory, queer theory, and disability studies. In the process, I draw attention to the rich, multi-faceted, and ever-changing social world that can be brought to life through this particular phenomenological concept. One of th…Read more
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29Book review: Vicki Kirby. Telling flesh: The substance of the corporeal. New York: Routledge, 1997 (review)Hypatia 17 (4): 244-247. 2002.
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12Sharing time across unshared horizonsIn Christina Schües, Dorothea E. Olkowski & Helen A. Fielding (eds.), Time in Feminist Phenomenology, Indiana University Press. pp. 171. 2011.
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1Body Image Intercourse: A Corporeal Dialogue between Merleau-Ponty and SchilderIn Dorothea Olkowski & James Morley (eds.), Merleau-Ponty, Interiority and Exteriority, Psychic Life and the World: Interiority and Exteriority, Psychic Life, and the World, State University of New York Pressolkowski, Dorothea. 1999.
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29Beauvoir and Merleau-PontyIn Shannon M. Mussett & William S. Wilkerson (eds.), Beauvoir and Western Thought From Plato to Butler, State University of New York Press. pp. 171-189. 2012.
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41Refiguring the Ordinary (edited book)Indiana University Press. 2008.If social, political, and material transformation is to have a lasting impact on individuals and society, it must be integrated within ordinary experience. Refiguring the Ordinary examines the ways in which individuals' bodies, habits, environments, and abilities function as horizons that underpin their understandings of the ordinary. These features of experience, according to Gail Weiss, are never neutral, but are always affected by gender, race, social class, ethnicity, nationality, and percep…Read more
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9Intertwinings: Interdisciplinary Encounters with Merleau-Ponty (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2008.Connects Merleau-Ponty’s thought to themes and issues central to continental philosophy today
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20Splitting the Subject: The Interval between Immanence and TranscendenceIn Dorothea Olkowski (ed.), Resistance, flight, creation: feminist enactments of French philosophy, Cornell University Press. pp. 79. 2000.
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68Perspectives on Embodiment: The Intersections of Nature and Culture (edited book)Routledge. 1999.First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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