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25Symposia on Gender, Race and PhilosophyIn David Papineau (ed.), Philosophy, Oxford University Press. pp. 5--1. 2009.
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267Adoption, ART, and a Re‐Conception of the Maternal Body: Toward Embodied MaternityHypatia 21 (1): 54-73. 2006.We criticize a view of maternity that equates the natural with the genetic and biological and show how such a practice overdetermines the maternal body and the maternal experience for women who are mothers through adoption and ART . As an alternative, we propose a new framework designed to rethink maternal bodies through the lens of feminist embodiment. Feminist embodied maternity, as we call it, stresses the particularity of experience through subjective embodiment. A feminist embodied maternit…Read more
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83Just War Theory, Crimes of War, and War RapeInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 20 (1): 143-157. 2006.Recent decades have witnessed rape and sexual violence used on such a massive scale and often in a widespread and systematic program that the international community has had to recognize that rape and sexual violence are not just war crimes but might be crimes against humanity or even genocide. I suggest that just war theory, while limited in its applicability to mass rape, might nevertheless offer some framework for making the determination of when sexual violence and rape constitute war crimes…Read more
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22Writing for Liberation: Simone de Beauvoir and Woman’s WritingPhilosophy Today 45 (4): 335-348. 2001.
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36The Contradictions of Freedom: Philosophical Essays on Simone de Beauvoir's the Mandarins (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2005._The essential companion to Simone de Beauvoir's celebrated novel._
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37Peacemaking in Domestic Violence: From an Ethics of Care to an Ethics of AdvocacyJournal of Social Philosophy 29 (2): 46-58. 1998.
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110Political SolidarityPennsylvania State University Press. 2008.Experiences of solidarity have figured prominently in the politics of the modern era, from the rallying cry of liberation theology for solidarity with the poor and oppressed, through feminist calls for sisterhood, to such political movements as Solidarity in Poland. Yet very little academic writing has focused on solidarity in conceptual rather than empirical terms. Sally Scholz takes on this critical task here. She lays the groundwork for a theory of political solidarity, asking what solidarity…Read more
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20Individual and Community: Artistic Representation in Alain L. Locke's PoliticsTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 39 (3). 2003.
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32The Other Within: Ethics, Politics, and the Body in Simone de Beauvoir (review)Journal of Speculative Philosophy 20 (3): 248-250. 2006.
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38Seven Principles for Better Practical EthicsTeaching Philosophy 19 (4): 337-355. 1996.This paper attends to the question of how to effectively teach ethics in universities. The author challenges the accepted skepticism amongst other disciplines that philosophers are no longer equipped to teach ethics courses to accommodate the moral demands of the contemporary world. Philosophers are believed to merely focus on abstract issues concerning moral attitudes and behavior. Currently, ethics courses in universities have replaced abstract moral issues of moral theory with concrete issues…Read more
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27Resurrecting Language through Social CriticismSocial Philosophy Today 17 203-216. 2001.Social criticism can take on many forms ranging from theoretical exposition to non-violent protests. This paper considers literary art as a form of social criticism and uses Morrison's novel Paradise as the exemplary case to show that the confrontation of unjust ideas through social criticism is essential in building non-oppressive relations open to diversity. In this sense, social criticism is a paradigm of communication that, although often entailing conflict, ultimately aims at reconciliation…Read more
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M. Kelly , "Hermeneutics and critical theory in ethics and politics" (review)Journal of Value Inquiry 28 (3): 489. 1994.
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48Feminist Political SolidarityIn Lisa Tessman (ed.), Feminist Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy: Theorizing the Non-Ideal, Springer. pp. 205--220. 2009.This article examines some of the conceptual history of collective political action within feminist movements beginning with sisterhood and moving to feminist political solidarity. I argue that feminist political solidarity is built on a commitment by individuals to form a unity in opposition to injustice or oppression. Three moral relations emerge from this understanding of feminist political solidarity: the relation to the cause, the relation among members of the solidary group, and the rela…Read more
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87The Duty of SolidarityPhilosophy in the Contemporary World 4 (3): 24-33. 1997.Catholic Social Teaching of late has a lot more in common with feminist moral theory than might be evident at first glance. After a brief explanation of Catholic Social Teaching’s duty of solidarity, and a look at some of the feminist critiques of this solidarity, I point out some of the significant similarities between feminist ethics and the duty of solidarity. The last section focuses on community and care, the epistemological role of experience and the world view of the other, the centrality…Read more
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Areas of Interest
Social and Political Philosophy |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |