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134Her body her own worst enemy”: The medicalization of violence against womenIn Stanley French, Wanda Teays & Laura Purdy (eds.), Violence Against Women: Philosophical Perspectives, Cornell University Press. pp. 123--138. 1998.
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49Ending at the Skin: Sexuality and Race in Feminist TheorizingHypatia 12 (3): 164-173. 1997.Many feminists have found inspiration in Donna Haraway's myth of the cyborg (1990). From the standpoint of feminist bisexual identity, however, I contend that this myth evades the very issues of race and sexuality which it seems to be addressing. I examine the uses of a bisexual standpoint for a more concrete, situated approach to theorizing sexuality, arguing that reflection on racial identities must be incorporated as well
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38“Obesity,” the Transnational Plate, and the Thin ContractRadical Philosophy Review 13 (1): 43-67. 2010.This article explores how the notion of obesity as health problem (1) functions to obscure or justify global inequities related to food production and access and (2) indicates still deeper problems of injustice and the neglected role of embodiment in analyses of justice and injustice, and notions of political subjecthood. Food, the need to eat, and the food system shape social existence profoundly yet are underexplored in philosophy, especially political philosophy. Drawing on disability theory …Read more
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32Book review: Laura Duhan Kaplan. Family Pictures: A Philosopher Explores the Familiar. Chicago: Open Court Press, 1998 (review)Hypatia 14 (2): 124-129. 1999.
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26I Want to Hold Your Hand: Abstinence Curricula, Bioethics, and the Silencing of Desire (review)Journal of Medical Humanities 34 (2): 101-108. 2013.The abstinence approach to sex education remains influential despite its demonstrated ineffectiveness. One bill forbids the “promotion” of “gateway sexual activity,” while requiring outright condemnation of “non-abstinence,” defined so loosely as to plausibly include handholding. Bioethics seldom (if ever) contributes to sex-ed debates, yet exploring the pivotal role of medical discourse reveals the need for bioethical intervention. Sex-ed debates revolve around a theory of human flourishing bas…Read more
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17Book review: Laura DUHAN Kaplan. Family Pictures: A Philosopher Explores the Familiar. Chicago and la salle: Open court, 1998 (review)Hypatia 14 (2): 124-129. 1999.
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17Disability and DepressionJournal of Bioethical Inquiry 13 (4): 497-503. 2016.Here, Ann Cvetkovich, interviewed by Abby Wilkerson, brings Cvetkovich’s influential cultural studies analysis of depression explicitly into conversation with disability studies. Cvetkovich understands “feeling bad” as a defining affective state under neoliberalism. Drawing on a distinctive historical/cultural archive, she challenges the atomism of the neoliberal medical model that frames depression and affective distress more generally as the result of faulty brain chemistry—individual organism…Read more
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16Book review: Susan Griffin. What Her Body Thought: A Journey into the Shadows. San Francisco: Harper, 1999 (review)Hypatia 16 (4): 155-160. 2001.
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14Recognition, Responsibility, and Rights: Feminist Ethics and Social TheoryRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2002.This collection of papers by prominent feminist thinkers advances the positive feminist project of remapping the moral by developing theory that acknowledges the diversity of women
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10Composing Disability: Diagnosis, InterruptedJournal of Bioethical Inquiry 13 (4): 473-476. 2016.Writing is central both to the medical diagnostic codification of disability and to disabled people’s efforts to interrupt, complicate, or disrupt dominant medical narratives. This Symposium, like the George Washington University conference from which it takes its name, creates space for diverse modes and genres of claiming authority regarding diagnosis and its cultural and material effects. “Queer” and “crip” interrogations of diagnosis illuminate its status as a cultural phenomenon, embracing …Read more
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10Book review: SuSan Griffin. What Her Body Thought: A Journey Into the Shadows. San francisco: HarperSanfrancisco, 1999 (review)Hypatia 16 (4): 155-160. 2001.
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9“Her Body Her Own Worst Enemy”: The Medicalization of Violence Against WomenIn Wanda Teays (ed.), Analyzing Violence Against Women, Springer. pp. 131-147. 2019.From the 1960s, when women began working together to end gender-based violence, to well into the twenty-first century, attitudes and practices have shifted in important ways, yet this social justice project is far from complete. While feminist resistance has gone public in unprecedented ways, institutional responses often lag far behind. This chapter focuses on medical contexts, arguing that gendered violencegendered violence, a neglected topic in bioethics, constitutes an important issue for th…Read more
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Justice and Health: The Cultural Politics of MedicineDissertation, University of Illinois at Chicago. 1995.Philosophers tend to construe the relation between justice and health in terms of the distribution of access to the existing health care system. However, significant patterns of injustice in the context of medicine, such as the function of health care as a form of social control, are overlooked in this approach. I employ perspectives of the AIDS and women's health movements to argue that the cultural authority of medicine must be morally evaluated, along with cultural aspects of oppression not f…Read more