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216Experiential Learning in Philosophy, by Julinna Oxley and Ramona Ilea (eds.) (review)Teaching Philosophy 39 (3): 372-376. 2016.
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96Male sexual victimisation, failures of recognition, and epistemic injusticeIn Paul Giladi & Nicola McMillan (eds.), Epistemic injustice and the philosophy of recognition, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. pp. 279-296. 2022.Whether in the form of testimonial injustice, hermeneutical injustice, or contributory injustice, epistemic injustice is characterised an injustice rather than simply an epistemic harm because it is often motivated by an identity prejudice and exacerbates existing social disadvantages and inequalities. I argue that epistemic injustice can also be utlised against some members of privileged social identity groups in order to preserve the dominant status of the group as a whole. As a case-study, I …Read more
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943Date Rape: The Intractability of Hermeneutical InjusticeIn Wanda Teays (ed.), Analyzing Violence Against Women, Springer. pp. 39-50. 2019.Social epistemologists use the term hermeneutical injustice to refer to a form of epistemic injustice in which a structural prejudice in the economy of collective interpretive resources results in a person’s inability to understand his/her/their own social experience. This essay argues that the phenomenon of unacknowledged date rapes, that is, when a person experiences sexual assault yet does not conceptualize him/her/their self as a rape victim, should be regarded as a form of hermeneutical inj…Read more
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3337“Me Too”: Epistemic Injustice and the Struggle for RecognitionFeminist Philosophy Quarterly 4 (4). 2018.Congdon (2017), Giladi (2018), and McConkey (2004) challenge feminist epistemologists and recognition theorists to come together to analyze epistemic injustice. I take up this challenge by highlighting the failure of recognition in cases of testimonial and hermeneutical injustice experienced by victims of sexual harassment and sexual assault. I offer the #MeToo movement as a case study to demonstrate how the process of mutual recognition makes visible and helps overcome the epistemic injustice s…Read more
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559"Sexual Harassment: An Introduction to the Conceptual and Ethical Issues," by Keith Dromm (review)Teaching Philosophy 36 (1): 85-88. 2013.
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400Review of F. Vera-Gray's Men's Intrusion, Women's Embodiment: A Critical Analysis of Street Harassment (review)Hypatia Reviews Online. 2018.
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251Reivew of The Technoscientific Witness of Rape by Andrea Quinlan (review)Somatechnics 7 (2): 312-314. 2017.
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78Intellectual Empathy: Critical Thinking for Social Justice, by Maureen Linker (review)Teaching Philosophy 38 (3): 343-346. 2015.
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50Labeling products of biotechnology: Towards communication and consentJournal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 12 (3): 319-330. 2000.Both consumers and producers of biotechnology products have insisted that communication between the two be improved. The former demand more democratic participation in the risk assessment process of biotechnology products. The latter seek to correct misinformation regarding alleged risks from these products. One way to resolve these concerns, I argue, is through the use of biotechnology labels. Such labeling fosters consumer autonomy and moves toward more participatory decisionmaking, in additio…Read more
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1319Hunting Girls: Sexual Violence from The Hunger Games to Campus Rape, by Kelly Oliver (review)Hypatia Reviews Online. 2017.
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22Utopian Fantasy and the Politics of DifferenceIn Luke Cuddy & John Nordlinger (eds.), World of Warcraft and Philosophy: Wrath of the Philosopher King, Open Court. pp. 131-142. 2009.Although World of Warcraft utilizes ethnic and gender stereotypes in the construction of its playable characters, the structure of the gaming environment provides a modest utopian vision that is structurally just, maximizing both liberty and equality among participants in a way consistent with John Rawls's Theory of Justice. As a result, class, race, and gender are much more a matter of human (humanoid) variety, rather than a tool for hierarchically differentiation. Nevertheless, in players' eng…Read more
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401Amy Allen: The Politics of Our Selves: Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory (review)Apa Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy 9 (2): 16-17. 2010.
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465Special Cluster on Feminist Critical Theory: IntroductionApa Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy 4 (2): 2-3. 2005.
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63An Examination of Racialized Assumptions in Antirape DiscourseStudies in Practical Philosophy 3 (1): 53-67. 2003.
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45Answering the Call: Crisis Intervention and Rape Survivor Advocacy as Witnessing TraumaIn Monica Casper & Eric Wertheimer (eds.), Critical Trauma Studies: Understanding Violence, Conflict and Memory in Everyday Life, New York University Press. pp. 205-226. 2016.This chapter focuses on the practice of witnessing from the perspective of a crisis counselor and rape survivor advocate. Weaving together threads of practice and theory, it describes the experience of witnessing others’ trauma, and the asymmetrical process of being an empathic and ethical participant in the recovery of others’ subjectivity. The chapter explores the impact of trauma on a person’s embodied, autonomous, and narrative self, including loss of speech, symptoms recognized in psychiatr…Read more
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3The Debate Between Sartre and Merleau-Ponty by Jon Stewart (ed) (review)Sartre Studies International 6 (2): 67-70. 2000.
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4Violated Subjects: A Feminist Phenomenology and Critical Theory of RapeDissertation, Purdue University. 2002.Underlying theories of rape in legal philosophy are assumptions about the relationships between rights and property, self and others, mind and body, public and private domains, subject and object. Philosophers who study sexual assault by focusing almost exclusively on the law of rape often fail to interrogate their implicit ways of conceptualizing subjects and the harm done to them. In particular, these analyses often overlook the impact of rape on the development of personal identity and unders…Read more
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90Critical Thinking: A User's ManualWadsworth/Cengage Learning. 2012.CRITICAL THINKING: A USER’S MANUAL offers an innovative skill-based approach to critical thinking that provides step-by-step tools for learning to evaluate arguments. Students build a complete skill set by recognizing, analyzing, diagramming, and evaluating arguments; later chapters encourage application of the basic skills to categorical, truth-functional, analogical, generalization, and causal arguments as well as fallacies. The exercises throughout the text engage readers in active learning, …Read more
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104Throwing Like a Slayer: A Phenomenology of Gender Hybridity and Female Resilience in Buffy the Vampire SlayerSlayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies, 14 (1). 2016.To determine whether or not Buffy Sommers represents a successful subversion of femininity, I draw extensively upon seminal works in feminist phenomenology, which describe feminine embodiment as a collection of disciplinary practices that produce a subordinate subject. In sections one and two below, I use these aspects of feminine embodiment to analyze how Buffy the Vampire Slayer both reflects and challenges these norms, concluding that Buffy represents a gender hybrid, one who melds feminine a…Read more
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48Philosophical Feminism and Popular Culture, by Sharon Crasnow and Joanne Waugh (eds) (review)Apa Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy 15 (1): 16-17. 2015.
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Areas of Interest
Feminism: Rape and Sexual Violence |