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3Kent Greenawalt, Fighting Words: Individuals, Communities, and Liberties of Speech Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 16 (5): 348-350. 1996.
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257Feminist Ethics and Everyday InequalitiesHypatia 24 (1): 159. 2009.How should feminist philosophers regard the inequalities that structure the lives of women? Some of these inequalities are trivial and others are not; together they form a framework of unequal treatment that shapes women’s lives. This paper asks what priority we should give inequalities that affect women; it critically analyzes Claudia Card’s view that feminists ought to give evils priority. Sometimes ending gender-based inequalities is the best route to eliminating gender-based evil.
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50Paternalism and RightsCanadian Journal of Philosophy 24 (3): 419-440. 1994.When, if ever, are we justified in infringing a rights claim on the basis of benefit to the right bearer? If we assume that the rights of individuals can be overridden on the basis of what is at stake for others- that is, that rights have thresholds - we can ask how these thresholds are affected when the person who will benefit from the right being overridden is the right bearer herself.
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16Feminist Moral Philosophy (edited book)University of Calgary Press. 2003.Do moral philosophers need an account of human nature on which to base their normative claims? If we conceive of selves in relational terms, what are the implications for egalitarian theories, for accounts of agency, and for our views about reproductive technology? Does virtue theory commit us to the claim that members of privileged groups are unable to lead good lives? Does objectification admit of degrees? Can social contract arguments tell us anything about what makes sexual exploitation wron…Read more
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73Moral LumpsEthical Theory and Moral Practice 9 (3): 249-263. 2006.Can all goods or bads be broken down into smaller and smaller pieces? Can all goods or bads be added together with some other good or bad to get a larger amount? Further, how does moral significance track the disaggregation and the aggregation of moral goods and bads? In Part 1, I examine the limits placed on aggregation by moderate deontological moral theories. This paper focuses in particular on the work of Judith Thomson and T.M. Scanlon as well as on some of my own past work on the question …Read more
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256Philosophy and Death: Introductory ReadingsBroadview Press. 2009.Philosophical reflection on death dates back to ancient times, but death remains a most profound and puzzling topic. Samantha Brennan and Robert Stainton have assembled a compelling selection of core readings from the philosophical literature on death. The views of ancient writers such as Plato, Epicurus, and Lucretius are set alongside the work of contemporary figures such as Thomas Nagel, John Perry, and Judith Jarvis Thomson. Brennan and Stainton divide the anthology into three parts. Part I …Read more
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Martha C. Nussbaum and Amartya Sen, eds., The Quality of Life (review)Philosophy in Review 14 340-342. 1994.
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Arthur Ripstein, Equality, Responsibility, and the Law (review)Philosophy in Review 21 288-290. 2001.
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14Challenging Liberalism: Feminism as Political Critique by Lisa H. SchwartzmanHypatia 23 (1): 220-223. 2008.
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312Speaking from our experience as department chairs in fields in which women are traditionally underrepresented, we offer reflections and advice on how one might move beyond the chilly climate and create a warmer environment for women students and faculty members.
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139Reconciling feminist politics and feminist ethics on the issue of rightsJournal of Social Philosophy 30 (2). 1999.Should feminist ethical theories include rights as a component? There is a tension between feminist politics and the endorsement of the language of “women’s rights,” and feminist ethics and its critique of rights.1 In this paper I begin the project of reconciling moral theories that include rights as a component with feminist criticisms of rights. There are two parts to this project. First, I must respond to the criticisms feminists have made against rights theories in order to show that it is p…Read more
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18Margins within the Marginal: Bi-invisibility and Intersexual PassingIn Dennis Cooley & Kelby Harrison (eds.), Passing/Out: Queer Identities Veiled and Revealed, Ashgate. 2012.
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140The Moral Status of Children: Children’s Rights, Parents’ Rights, and Family JusticeSocial Theory and Practice 23 (1): 1-26. 1997.Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.
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