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25Beyond economic man: Feminist theory and economicsHistory of European Ideas 21 (1): 137-138. 1995.
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218Oppression by choiceJournal of Social Philosophy 25 (s1): 22-44. 1994.Property in money, means of subsistence, machines, and other means of production, does not as yet stamp a man as a capitalist if there be wanting the correlative — the wage-worker, the other man who is compelled to sell himself of his own free-will
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33Feminist Morality: Transforming Culture, Society, and PoliticsPhilosophical Review 104 (4): 611. 1995.
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117Missionary positionsHypatia 20 (4): 164-182. 2000.: Postcolonial feminist scholars have described some Western feminist activism as imperialistic, drawing a comparison to the work of Christian missionaries from the West, who aided in the project of colonization and assimilation of non-Western cultures to Western ideas and practices. This comparison challenges feminists who advocate global human rights ideals or objective appraisals of social practices, in effect charging them with neocolonialism. This essay defends work on behalf of universal h…Read more
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73Strikes, Housework, and the Moral Obligation to ResistJournal of Social Philosophy 29 (1): 20-36. 1998.
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249How to explain oppression: Criteria of adequacy for normative explanatory theoriesPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 35 (1): 20-49. 2005.This article discusses explanatory theories of normative concepts and argues for a set of criteria of adequacy by which such theories may be evaluated. The criteria offered fall into four categories: ontological, theoretical, pragmatic, and moral. After defending the criteria and discussing their relative weighting, this article uses them to prune the set of available explanatory theories of oppression. Functionalist theories, including Hegelian recognition theory and Foucauldian social theory, …Read more
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164Analytic Feminism: A Brief IntroductionHypatia 10 (3): 1-6. 1995.This essay introduces the subject of this special issue by offering a characterization of analytic feminism in terms of its context, methods, and problem areas. I argue that analytic feminism is a legitimate subfield both of feminism and of analytic philosophy. I then summarize the problems addressed by the essays of this issue
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43Revolution vs. Devolution in KansasTeaching Philosophy 30 (2): 173-183. 2007.This paper is about teaching progressive ideas where fundamentalist and conservative views are prominent among the students. I take up two questions: What should we take our task as feminist teachers to be? How should it be carried out? I explore three teaching strategies that a progressive teacher might use in a hostile conservative climate: the whole truth strategy, the dismissal strategy, and the bridge strategy. I reject the first two of these and argue that the third is most likely to be ef…Read more
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64Commitment as Motivation: Amartya Sen’s Theory of Agency and the Explanation of BehaviorEconomics and Philosophy 30 (1): 35-56. 2014.This paper presents Sen's theory of agency, focusing on the role of commitment in this theory as both problematic and potentially illuminating. His account of some commitments as goal-displacing gives rise to a dilemma given the standard philosophical theory of agency.Eithercommitment-motivated actions are externally motivated, in which case they are not expressions of agency,orsuch actions are internally motivated, in which case the commitment is not goal-displacing. I resolve this dilemma and …Read more
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IntroductionIn Win-Chiat Lee & Ann Cudd (eds.), Citizenship and Immigration - Borders, Migration and Political Membership in a Global Age, Springer Verlag. 2016.
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39Citizenship and Immigration - Borders, Migration and Political Membership in a Global Age (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2016.This work offers a timely philosophical analysis of interrelated normative questions concerning immigration and citizenship in relation to the global context of multiple nation states. In it, philosophers and scholars from the social sciences address both fundamental questions in moral and political philosophy as well as specific issues concerning policy. Topics covered in this volume include: the concept and the role of citizenship, the equal rights and representation of citizens, general moral…Read more
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Domestic Violence as Justification for AsylumIn Win-Chiat Lee & Ann Cudd (eds.), Citizenship and Immigration - Borders, Migration and Political Membership in a Global Age, Springer Verlag. 2016.
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92Revolution vs. Devolution in KansasTeaching Philosophy 30 (2): 173-183. 2007.This paper is about teaching progressive ideas where fundamentalist and conservative views are prominent among the students. I take up two questions: What should we take our task as feminist teachers to be? How should it be carried out? I explore three teaching strategies that a progressive teacher might use in a hostile conservative climate: the whole truth strategy, the dismissal strategy, and the bridge strategy. I reject the first two of these and argue that the third is most likely to be ef…Read more
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49Philosophical Perspectives on Democracy in the 21st Century (edited book)Springer. 2013.Chapter. 1. Philosophical. Perspectives. on. Democracy. in. the. Twenty-First. Century: Introduction. Ann E. Cudd and Sally J. Scholz Abstract Recent global movements, including the Arab Spring, the Occupy Movement, as well as polarizing ...
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191Feminist Theory: A Philosophical Anthology (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2005.Feminist Theory: A Philosophical Anthology addresses seven philosophically significant questions regarding feminism, its central concepts of sex and gender, and the project of centering women’s experience. Topics include the nature of sexist oppression, the sex/gender distinction, how gender-based norms influence conceptions of rationality, knowledge, and scientific objectivity, feminist ethics, feminst perspectives on self and autonomy, whether there exist distinct feminine moral perspectives, …Read more
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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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77Capitalism, for and Against: A Feminist DebateCambridge University Press. 2010.Political philosophy and feminist theory have rarely examined in detail how capitalism affects the lives of women. Ann Cudd and Nancy Holmstrom take up opposing sides of the issue, debating whether capitalism is valuable as an ideal and whether as an actually existing economic system it is good for women. In a discussion covering a broad range of social and economic issues, including unequal pay, industrial reforms and sweatshops, they examine how these and other issues relate to women and how e…Read more
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21Book Review:Understanding Action: An Essay on Reasons. Frederic Schick (review)Ethics 103 (3): 570-. 1993.
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