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    In this collection, white women philosophers engage boldly in critical acts of exploring ways of naming and disrupting whiteness in terms of how it has defined the conceptual field of philosophy. Focuses on the whiteness of the epistemic and value-laden norms within philosophy itself, the text dares to identify the proverbial elephant in the room known as white supremacy and how that supremacy functions as the measure of reason, knowledge, and philosophical intelligibility.
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    Hard a' Lee
    In Patrick Goold & Fritz Allhoff (eds.), Sailing – Philosophy for Everyone, Blackwell. 2012.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Preparing the Boat to Sail Casting Off Some Existentialist Reflections Cruising The Social Dimensions of Sailing “Hard a' Lee” or Coming About Sailing Close‐Hauled Noticing the “Presence of the Absence” (Heavy Sailing Ahead) The Broad Reach Practical Wisdom Capsizing Human Experience Returning to the Pier Pleasure, Elegance, and Truth Final Tasks.
  • Multiplicity in Identity: Beyond the Metaphysics of Substance
    Dissertation, Michigan State University. 2000.
    Any theory incorporating 'identity' as a central concept must respond to the criticisms of identity posed by postmodernists. For feminist theorists, the most complete articulation of such criticisms has been developed by Judith Butler. Butler focuses on gender identity at the level of subjectivity, how the individual is constructed as a gendered being. The conception of subjectivity Butler criticizes is one that legitimates the social order by masking the power dynamics involved in the construct…Read more