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Why analytic feminism?In Pieranna Garavaso (ed.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Analytic Feminism, Bloomsbury. 2018.
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39In tribute to Anne DonchinInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 8 (1): 1-17. 2015.
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65Manuscript Referees for The Journal of Ethics Volume 8: September 2003–August 2004The Journal of Ethics 8 (473): 473-473. 2004.
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13Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy (edited book)Routledge. 2017.The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics, subjects, thinkers, and debates in feminist philosophy. Fifty-six chapters, written by an international team of contributors specifically for the Companion, are organized into five sections: Engaging the Past; Mind, Body, and World; Knowledge, Language, and Science; Intersections; Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics. The volume provides a mutually enriching representation of the several ph…Read more
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44The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy (edited book)Routledge. 2016._The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy_ is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics, subjects, thinkers, and debates in feminist philosophy. Fifty-six chapters, written by an international team of contributors specifically for the _Companion_, are organized into five sections: Engaging the Past Mind, Body, and World Knowledge, Language, and Science Intersections Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics. The volume provides a mutually enriching representation of the several ph…Read more
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36The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy (edited book)Routledge. 2016.The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics, subjects, thinkers, and debates in feminist philosophy. Fifty-six entries, written by an international team of contributors specifically for the _Companion_, are organized into five sections: Engaging the Past Mind, Body, and World Knowledge, Language, and Science Intersections Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics. The volume provides a mutually enriching representation of the several philo…Read more
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33Editorial Introduction to the Found Cluster on Trans Feminist PhilosophyHypatia 34 (1): 98-100. 2019.
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31Call for PapersHypatia 22 (3): 242-243. 2007.This essay examines the stereotype that transgender people are “deceivers” and the stereotype's role in promoting and excusing transphobic violence. The stereotype derives from a contrast between gender presentation and sexed body. Because gender presentation represents genital status, Bettcher argues, people who “misalign” the two are viewed as deceivers. The author shows how this system of gender presentation as genital representation is part of larger sexist and racist systems of violence and…Read more
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33Why Care About Gender?Hypatia 7 (3): 155-161. 1992.I address motivations that feminist philosophers have for being concerned about the "maleness" of philosophy and the "problem of difference" within feminist theory. An appropriate motivation for caring about both sets of issues is the desire not to oppress others. In order to be able to understand this motivation and to act on it, we need to retain gender as an analytical category
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100A Minimally Decent Philosophical Method: Analytic Philosophy and Feminism. Hypatia 10 (3):7-30. (review)Hypatia 10 (3): 7-30. 1995.This essay focuses on the extent to which the methods of analytic philosophy can be useful to feminist philosophers. I pose nine general questions feminist philosophers might ask to determine the suitability of a philosophical method. Examples include: Do its typical ways of formulating problems or issues encourage the inclusion of a wide variety of women's points of view? Are its central concepts gender-biased, not merely in their origin, but in very deep, continuing ways? Does it facilitate un…Read more
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5426Sex, Lies and PornographyIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), Ethics in Practice: An Anthology, Wiley-blackwell. 1997.
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Essences, intersections, and American feminismIn Cheryl Misak (ed.), The Oxford handbook of American philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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167Women, knowledge, and reality: explorations in feminist philosophy (edited book)Routledge. 1996.This second edition of Women, Knowledge and Reality continues to exhibit the ways in which feminist philosophers enrich and challenge philosophy. Essays by twenty-five feminist philosophers, seventeen of them new to the second edition, address fundamental issues in philosophical and feminist methods, metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophies of science, language, religion and mind/body. This second edition expands the perspectives of women of color, of postmodernism and French feminism, an…Read more
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109Medicine and medicalization: A response to PurdyBioethics 15 (3). 2001.Many feminists are critical of the practices and institutions that medicalize people’s lives, especially the lives of women and other members of marginalized groups. I argue that this critique does not necessarily imply a rejection of medicine. I give a brief analysis of the concept of medicalization that supports the view that one can desire medicine without desiring medicalization. I then discuss the relations among what is considered natural, socially constructed, and medicalized.
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338A Minimally Decent Philosophical Method? Analytic Philosophy and FeminismHypatia 10 (3): 7-30. 1995.This essay focuses on the extent to which the methods of analytic philosophy can be useful to feminist philosophers. I pose nine general questions feminist philosophers might ask to determine the suitability of a philosophical method. Examples include: Do its typical ways of formulating problems or issues encourage the inclusion of a wide variety of women's points of view? Are its central concepts gender-biased, not merely in their origin, but in very deep, continuing ways? Does it facilitate un…Read more
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257Intersectionality, Metaphors, and the Multiplicity of GenderHypatia 26 (4): 826-850. 2011.Although intersectional analyses of gender have been widely adopted by feminist theorists in many disciplines, controversy remains over their character, limitations, and implications. I support intersectionality, cautioning against asking too much of it. It provides standards for the uses of methods or frameworks rather than theories of power, oppression, agency, or identity. I want feminist philosophers to incorporate intersectional analyses more fully into our work so that our theories can, in…Read more
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92Women, Knowledge, and Reality: Explorations in Feminist Philosophy (edited book)Routledge. 1989.This second edition of _Women, Knowledge, and Reality_ continues to exhibit the ways in which feminist philosophers enrich and challenge philosophy. Essays by twenty-five feminist philosophers, seventeen of them new to the second edition, address fundamental issues in philosophical and feminist methods, metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophies of science, language, religion and mind/body. This second edition expands the perspectives of women of color, of postmodernism and French feminism,…Read more
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