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22Domination and Dialogue in Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of PerceptionHypatia 12 (1): 1-19. 1997.Merleau-Ponty's claim in Phenomenology of Perception that the anonymous body guarantees an intersubjective world is problematic because it omits the particularities of bodies. This omission produces an account of “dialogue” with another in which I solipsistically hear only myself and dominate others with my intentionality. This essay develops an alternative to projective intentionality called “hypothetical construction,” in which meaning is socially constructed through an appreciation of the dif…Read more
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94Whiteness as wise provincialism: Royce and the rehabilitation of a racial categoryTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 44 (2). 2008.Against the backdrop of eliminitivist versus critical conservationist approaches to the racial category of whiteness, this article asks whether a rehabilitated version of whiteness can be worked out concretely. What might a non-oppressive, anti-racist whiteness look like? Turning to Josiah Royce’s “Provincialism” for help answering this question, I show that even though the essay never explicitly discusses race, it can help explain the ongoing need for the category of whiteness and implicitly of…Read more
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106Reconfiguring gender with John Dewey: Habit, bodies, and cultural changeHypatia 15 (1): 23-42. 2000.: This paper demonstrates how John Dewey's notion of habit can help us understand gender as a constitutive structure of bodily existence. Bringing Dewey's pragmatism in conjunction with Judith Butler's concept of performativity, I provide an account of how rigid binary configurations of gender might be transformed at the level of both individual habit and cultural construct
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63Living Across and Through Skins: Transactional Bodies, Pragmatism, and FeminismIndiana University Press. 2001.According to Shannon Sullivan, thinking about the body as being in transaction with its social, political, cultural, and physical surroundings is not a new idea.
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26Feminism and Phenomenology: A Reply to Silvia StollerHypatia 15 (1): 183-188. 2000.Responding to Silvia Stoller's comments on “Domination and Dialogue in Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception”, I argue that while phenomenology has much to offer feminism, feminists should be wary of Merleau-Ponty's notion of projective intentionality because of the ethical solipsism that it tends to involve. I also take the opportunity to clarify the concept of hypothetical construction introduced in the earlier paper, in particular the transformative relationship that it has to pre-refle…Read more
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302Pragmatist Feminism as Ecological Ontology: Reflections on Living Across and Through SkinsHypatia 17 (4): 201-217. 2002.In my response to the comments of Vincent Colapietro, Charlene Seigfried, and Gail Weiss on Living Across and Through Skins , I explain pragmatist feminism as an ecological ontology that understands bodies and environments as dynamically co-constitutive. I then discuss the relationship of pragmatist feminism to phenomenology, psychoanalysis, Nietzschean genealogy, and Darwinian evolutionary theory. Some of the specific concepts I examine include the anonymous body, the bodying organism, truth as…Read more
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The Colonization of Psychic Space: A Psychoanalytic Social Theory of Oppression (review)Radical Philosophy 135. 2006.
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40Pragmatist feminism as ecological ontology: Reflections onHypatia 17 (4): 201-217. 2002.: In my response to the comments of Vincent Colapietro, Charlene Seigfried, and Gail Weiss on Living Across and Through Skins (Sullivan 2001), I explain pragmatist feminism as an ecological ontology that understands bodies and environments as dynamically co-constitutive. I then discuss the relationship of pragmatist feminism to phenomenology, psychoanalysis, Nietzschean genealogy, and Darwinian evolutionary theory. Some of the specific concepts I examine include the anonymous body, the bodying o…Read more
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26Democracy and the Individual: To What Extent Is Dewey's Reconstruction Nietzsche's Self-Overcoming?Philosophy Today 41 (2): 299-312. 1997.
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13W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868–1963In Armen T. Marsoobian & John Ryder (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy, Blackwell. 2004.This chapter contains sections titled: The Dual Vision of Black People The Status of Race and the Contributions of Black People “The Negro Problem”
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68Book review: Stacy Alaimo. Feminist spaces: Undomesticated ground: Recasting nature as feminist space ithaca, N.y.: Cornell university press, 2000; Elizabeth Grosz. Architecture from the outside: Essays on virtual and real space); and radhika mohanram. Black body: Women, colonialism, and space (review)Hypatia 19 (3): 209-216. 2004.
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