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    Sex, Suffrage, and Marriage: Russell and Feminism
    In Landon D. C. Elkind & Alexander Mugar Klein (eds.), Bertrand Russell, Feminism, and Women Philosophers in his Circle, Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 83-113. 2024.
    The question of Russell’s engagement with feminist ideas of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century is helpfully illuminated, I argue, by comparison to some of his feminist contemporaries—namely, Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1838–1927) and Emma Goldman (1869–1940). Like Woodhull and Goldman, Russell argues for women’s right to vote, a new sexual ethic, and a significant revision to marriage. These are paradigmatic feminist projects, and so would seem to suggest that Russell, particularly w…Read more
  • Friendship as a Means to Freedom
    In Karen Detlefsen & Lisa Shapiro (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Women and Early Modern European Philosophy, Routledge. pp. 228-239. 2023.
    Women thinking and writing about friendship in the early modern period were indebted to traditional interest in this topic dating back to Plato and Aristotle. This tradition was deeply misogynistic: real friendship was often claimed to be beyond the grasp of women. However, some women philosophers—most notably Marie le Jars de Gournay, Mary Astell, and Gabrielle Suchon—wrote about friendship in ways that both emerge from the history of Western philosophy and yet resist this inegalitarian framewo…Read more
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    Care Ethics: Love, Care, and Connection
    In Michael Hemmingsen (ed.), Ethical Theory in Global Perspective, Suny Press. pp. 333-350. 2024.
    An accessible introduction to care ethics.
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    Prejudice as Viciousness: Marie de Gournay and Anton Wilhelm Amo
    Southern Journal of Philosophy 61 (1): 182-205. 2023.
    Marie de Gournay and Anton Wilhelm Amo, though thinking and writing in different social contexts, each offer an account of prejudice which bears a deep philosophical resonance to that of the other. This resonance is striking and mutually illuminating: Gournay and Amo develop a view of prejudice as a kind of epistemic and moral viciousness that damages both the prejudicial person and their socio-epistemic neighbors. Their accounts highlight how agents are rightly held responsible for prejudice, a…Read more
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    Madeleine de Scudéry on conversation and its feminist ends
    British Journal for the History of Philosophy 30 (1): 48-70. 2021.
    Madeleine de Scudéry is best remembered as a novelist rather than as a philosopher, but she is both a gifted literary figure and an overlooked philosopher. These roles are, at least in...
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    Madeleine de Scudéry on conversation and its feminist ends
    British Journal for the History of Philosophy 30 (1): 48-70. 2022.
    ABSTRACT Madeleine de Scudéry (1607–1701) is best remembered as a novelist rather than as a philosopher, but she is both a gifted literary figure and an overlooked philosopher. These roles are, at least in her case, inseparable. Through her dialogues, Scudéry offers an account of the conversation that is at once a rhetorical social art as well as a substantive philosophical phenomenon and socio-political practice with feminist effects. According to Scudéry, how one converses and what one convers…Read more
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    Astell, friendship, and relational autonomy
    European Journal of Philosophy 29 (2): 487-503. 2020.
    European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
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    Mary Astell on Bad Custom and Epistemic Injustice
    Hypatia 34 (4): 777-801. 2019.
    Mary Astell is a fascinating seventeenth‐century figure whose work admits of many interpretations. One feature of her work that has received little attention is her focus on bad custom. This is surprising; Astell clearly regards bad custom as exerting a kind of epistemic power over agents, particularly women, in a way that limits their intellectual capacities. This article aims to link two contemporary sociopolitical/social‐epistemological projects by showing how a seventeenth‐century thinker an…Read more