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56The Physiology of Sexist and Racist OppressionOxford University Press USA. 2015.While gender and race often are considered socially constructed, this book argues that they are physiologically constituted through the biopsychosocial effects of sexism and racism. This means that to be fully successful, critical philosophy of race and feminist philosophy need to examine not only the financial, legal, political and other forms of racist and sexism oppression, but also their physiological operations. Examining a complex tangle of affects, emotions, knowledge, and privilege, The …Read more
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286Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance (edited book)State Univ of New York Pr. 2007.Leading scholars explore how different forms of ignorance are produced and sustained, and the role they play in knowledge practices.
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184Feminism 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" (Sullivan 1997), 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 i…Read more
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209Introduction: Feminist epistemologies of ignoranceHypatia 21 (3): 1-19. 2006.This essay aims to clarify the value of developing systematic studies of ignorance as a component of any robust theory of knowledge. The author employs feminist efforts to recover and create knowledge of women's bodies in the contemporary women's health movement as a case study for cataloging different types of ignorance and shedding light on the nature of their production. She also helps us understand the ways resistance movements can be a helpful site for understanding how to identify, critiqu…Read more
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7PragmatismIn Kittay Eva Feder & Martín Alcoff Linda (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 64--78. 2006.This chapter contains section titled: Pragmatism and Experience Classical Intersections of Pragmatism and Feminism Contemporary Intersections of Pragmatism and Feminism Conclusion References Suggested Further Reading.
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241From the foreign to the familiar: Confronting Dewey confronting "racial prejudice"Journal of Speculative Philosophy 18 (3): 193-202. 2004.
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19Domination 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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99Reconfiguring 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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Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |
Continental Philosophy |
Philosophy of the Americas |