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17Feminist 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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14Challenging Liberalism: Feminism as Political Critique by Lisa H. SchwartzmanHypatia 23 (1): 220-223. 2008.
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11Paternalism and RightsCanadian Journal of Philosophy 24 (3): 419-439. 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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10Implicit bias, women surgeons and institutional solutions: commentaryJournal of Medical Ethics 46 (4): 246-246. 2020.This paper argues that a major contribution to women’s under-representation and the gender pay gap in surgery is the interaction and aggregation of many small wrongs, or as they have come to be called in the literature, microinequities. Further, the paper argues that existing strategies do not adequately address the problems faced by women surgeons and cannot do so without an understanding of those wrongs as microinequities. Insights from the literature on ethics and microinequities are thought …Read more
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9Fashion and Sexual Identity, or why Recognition MattersIn Fritz Allhoff, Jessica Wolfendale & Jeanette Kennett (eds.), Fashion - Philosophy for Everyone: Thinking with Style, Wiley. 2011.This chapter contains sections titled: The Sexual Citizen, Rights to Recognition, and Visibility as a Strategy.
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5Varieties of Feminist Liberalism (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2004.The essays in this volume present versions of feminism that are explicitly liberal, or versions of liberalism that are explicitly feminist. By bringing together some of the most respected and well-known scholars in mainstream political philosophy today, Amy R. Baehr challenges the reader to reconsider the dominant view that liberalism and feminism are 'incompatible.'
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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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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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Robert Goodin, Utilitarianism as a Public Philosophy (review)Philosophy in Review 19 106-108. 1999.
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