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Iris Young, Global Responsibility and SolidarityIn Ann Ferguson & Mechthild Nagel (eds.), Dancing with Iris: The Philosophy of Iris Marion Young, Oup Usa. 2009.
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IntroductionIn Ann Ferguson & Mechthild Nagel (eds.), Dancing with Iris: The Philosophy of Iris Marion Young, Oup Usa. 2009.
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43No Just War for the EmpireRadical Philosophy Today 4 27-37. 2006.Although international law and the Charter of the United Nations define a doctrine of just war, some critics have argued that the U.S. has become an empire that can no longer be bound by such doctrine. On the contrary, I maintain that we must retain just war doctrine as a normative base from which to critique the U.S. and its preemptive wars against terrorism. Neither the Afghanistan nor the Iraq war has been a just war. By its imperialist intentions and barbarous actions, the U.S. government ha…Read more
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6SocialismIn Alison M. Jaggar & Iris Marion Young (eds.), A companion to feminist philosophy, Blackwell. 1998.Feminist philosophy is an engaged theoretical enterprise with a critical perspective on any philosophical positions which may perpetuate male dominance. It also seeks a general understanding of what needs to be changed in the social world so as to empower women. According to this general characterization, many socialist thinkers could be counted as feminist philosophers, since they assume that male domination has its roots in systems of private property and believe that empowering women requires…Read more
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15Iris Marion Young. Responsabilidad social y solidaridadEnrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofía 51 111-134. 2013.https://revistes.uab.cat/enrahonar/article/view/v51-ferguson.
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34Is Eliminating Gender a Transnational Feminist Solution or a Western Imposition?Radical Philosophy Review 24 (1): 75-84. 2021.
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2“Romantic Couple Love, the Affective Economy, and a Socialist-Feminist Vision” Taking Socialism Seriously. New York: Lexington BooksxIn Anatole Anton & Richard Schmitt (eds.), Taking Socialism Seriously, Lexington Books. 2012.
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29Toward a New SocialismLexington Books. 2006.Toward a New Socialism offers a critical analysis of capitalism's failings and the imminent need for socialism as an alternative form of government. Dr. Richard Schmitt joins with Dr. Anatole Anton to compile a volume of essays exploring the benefits and consequences of a socialist system as an avenue of increased human solidarity and ethical principle
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54Blood at the Root: Motherhood, Sexuality and Male DominancePandora/Unwin & Hyman. 1989.This is a book on feminist theory from a socialist-feminist (materialist feminist) perspective. I categorize existing paradigms of Western feminist theory in the 1980s and contrast them with my own view, which adds to a critique of capitalism inspired by Marxism another system in which male domination persists, which I call the system of "sex-affective production" (inspired but going beyond Freud, Foucault and Deleuze and Guattari). I also discuss motherhood and sexuality using my paradigm pers…Read more
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28Sexual Democracy: Women, Oppression, and RevolutionWestview. 1991.This is a book in feminist theory and social and political philosophy. Many of the chapters are versions of earlier papers published as journal articles and as book chapters. It presents a multi-systems theory of social domination, discussing three main ones: economic class, gender and (social) race. It presents a maerialist feminist theory of gender and sexuality and discusses lesbian identity as well as issues of motherhood.
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18This is an article in feminist ethics which claims to present a middle road between radical feminist critique of prostitution and libertarian feminism defense of the practice. I develop the category of morally risky (in feminist value terms) and argue that prostitution along with marriage and consensual S/M sex falls into the category in male dominant societies.
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3Sexual Democracy: Women, Oppression, and RevolutionWestview Press. 1991.This book is a collection of essays, some previous published as journal articles and some written for this collection. The topics include a feminist analysis of motherhood and male domination, questions about lesbian identity, patriarchy and lesbian culture, racism in the US context, a multi-aspect theory of the self, a presentation of a socialist-feminist theory of male dominance as based in historical modes of organizing parenthood/motherhood, sexuality and friendship I call "modes of sex/…Read more
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76Blood at the Root: Motherhood, Sexuality and Male DominancePandora/Unwin and Hyman. 1989.This book gives a socialist-feminist theory of the origins, persistence and reproduction of male dominance in systems of parenting/motherhood and sexuality. I create the concept of "modes of sex/affective production" which I see as analogous to and intertwined with modes of economic production to reproduce historically different systems of male dominance. I compare my Multi-system socialist-feminist theory to those of Liberal Feminism, Radical feminism, Marxist-feminism, Freudian feminism, a…Read more
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87Northern researchers and service providers espousing modernist theories of development in order to understand and aid countries and peoples of the South ignore their own non-universal starting points of knowledge and their own vested interests. Universal ethics are rejected in favor of situated ethics, while a modified empowerment development model for aiding women in the South based on poststructuralism requires building a bridge identity politics to promote participatory democracy and challeng…Read more
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17Women, corporate globalization, and global justiceIn Lisa Tessman (ed.), Feminist Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy: Theorizing the Non-Ideal, Springer. pp. 271--285. 2009.
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42The Machinery of Whiteness: Studies in the Structure of Racialization. By Steve Martinot. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2010 (review)Hypatia 27 (3): 943-945. 2012.
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55Twenty Years of Feminist PhilosophyHypatia 9 (3). 1994.This paper provides an overview of twenty years of feminist philosophy in Northamerica. The professionalization of feminist theory that has occurred through the mainstreaming of feminist philosophy creates a danger of a gap between theory and practice that creates the danger of co-optation. Three stages of feminist philosophizing are outlined, including the radical critique, gender difference and difference/post-modernist stages. The last stage, it is argued, leads to an conceptual impasse about…Read more
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16The Global Reach of Our Political Responsibilities (review)Radical Philosophy Review 14 (2): 227-233. 2011.
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147Sex war - the debate between radical and libertarian feministsSigns: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (1): 106-112. 1984.
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42Socialist-Feminist Transitions and VisionsRadical Philosophy Review 21 (1): 177-200. 2018.Socialism from a feminist perspective is not an all or nothing blueprint, but rather a vision of degrees of power/freedom that people in a particular society have in economic, political, social and personal relations. Examples are discussed of societies which are more or less socialist in their class, racial/ethnic, and gender equality, power and freedom. Historical changes in affective economic relations of care, love and affection inform such class, race/ethnic, gender and sexual differences. …Read more
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48This unique, timely book of original essays sets the stage for a new materialist feminist debate on the analysis, ethics and politics of love. The contributors raise questions about social power and domination, situating their research in a materialist feminist perspective that investigates love historically, in order to understand changing ideologies, representations and practices. The essays range from studies of particular representations and examples of love - feminist translation, mass medi…Read more
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89Motherhood and Sexuality: Some Feminist QuestionsHypatia 1 (2). 1986.This is a review essay that also serves as an introduction to the other essays in the issue. It discusses feminist theory's relation to Freud, feminist ethical questions on motherhood and sexuality, the historical question of how systems of socially constructed sexual desire connect to male dominance, the question of the role of the body in feminist theory, and disputes within feminism on self, gender, agency and power.
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