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6Uncosmetic Surgeries in An Age of NormativityIn Kristin Zeiler & Lisa Folkmarson Käll (eds.), Feminist Phenomenology and Medicine, State University of New York Press. pp. 101-117. 2014.
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5The Silverman NetworkIn Donald A. Landes (ed.), Between philosophy and non-philosophy: the thought and legacy of Hugh J. Silverman, Suny Press. pp. 181-193. 2016.
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6Pride And PrejudiceIn Emily S. Lee (ed.), Living Alterities: Phenomenology, Embodiment, and Race, State University of New York Press. pp. 213-232. 2014.
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27Telling Flesh: The Substance of the Corporeal. Vicki Kirby. New York: Routledge, 1997Hypatia 17 (4): 244-247. 2002.In Telling Flesh, Vicki Kirby addresses a major theoretical issue at the intersection of the social sciences and feminist theory -- the separation of nature from culture. Kirby focuses particularly on postmodern approaches to corporeality, and explores how these approaches confine the body within questions about meaning and interpretation. Kirby explores the implications of this containment in the work of Jane Gallop, Judith Butler, and Drucilla Cornell, as well as in recent cyber-criticism. By …Read more
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10A Genealogy of Women’s Ethical BodiesIn Clara Fischer & Luna Dolezal (eds.), New Feminist Perspectives on Embodiment, Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 17-35. 2018.This chapter offers a brief historical overview of the gendered mind/body dualism associated with the rationalist tradition, according to which women’s bodies have been viewed as a threat to reason and to ethics. Taking up critiques of this model offered by Beauvoir and Fanon, I maintain that the body of the Other makes an ethical claim upon us in the form of “bodily imperatives.” I conclude with a critical analysis of contemporary feminist ethics that seeks to move beyond the false dichotomies …Read more
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2050 Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology (edited book)Northwestern University Press. 2020.This volume is an introduction to both newer and more established ideas in the growing field of critical phenomenology from a number of disciplinary perspectives.
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14Editors’ IntroductionJournal of Speculative Philosophy 36 (2). 2022.The articles in this special issue of the Journal of Speculative Philosophy were selected from revised versions of papers that were originally presented at the fifty-ninth annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy in September 2021. This virtual conference took place on September 17–18 and 23–26 after the cancellation of the 2020 conference due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Bonnie Honig and Mel Y. Chen gave the SPEP 2021 Plenary Addresses and we are grateful to be abl…Read more
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14SPEP Co-Director's Address: The Question of the NormalJournal of Speculative Philosophy 36 (2): 131-148. 2022.ABSTRACT Drawing upon Edmund Husserl’s concept of the natural attitude, our taken-for-granted understandings of what is normal, natural, and what should be the case, I argue that when one’s everyday routines are radically disrupted in a sustained way, as has happened with the COVID-19 global pandemic, adjustments are also needed in our natural attitudes so that the latter accurately reflect our actual situation. And yet, the tendency to resist altering one’s natural attitude in response to major…Read more
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105 Birthing Responsibility: A Phenomenological Perspective on the Moral Significance of BirthIn Sarah LaChance Adams & Caroline R. Lundquist (eds.), Coming to Life: Philosophies of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Mothering, Fordham University Press. pp. 107-119. 2013.
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7Editors' IntroductionJournal of Speculative Philosophy 34 (3): 225-231. 2020.The articles in this special issue of the Journal of Speculative Philosophy were originally presented at the fifty-eighth annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 31 to November 2, 2019. The meeting was hosted by Duquesne University. It featured two outstanding plenary presentations that bear mentioning even though they are not reproduced in these pages: Susan Stryker's "How Being Trans Made Me a Philosopher!" and Robert Bran…Read more
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17IntroductionJournal of Speculative Philosophy 33 (3): 341-348. 2019.This special issue of the Journal of Speculative Philosophy offers a wonderful sample of the innovative scholarship that was presented at the fifty-seventh annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, which was hosted by Pennsylvania State University, October 18–20, 2018. We have chosen the title "Critical Phenomenologies: Past, Present, and Future" for this volume because the essays included within it pay close critical attention to temporally thick features of ou…Read more
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26Fifty Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology (edited book)Nothwestern University Press. 2019.Phenomenology, the philosophical method that seeks to uncover the taken-for-granted presuppositions, habits, and norms that structure everyday experience, is increasingly framed by ethical and political concerns. Critical phenomenology foregrounds experiences of marginalization, oppression, and power in order to identify and transform common experiences of injustice that render “the familiar” a site of oppression for many. In Fifty Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology, leading scholars present …Read more
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17Ambiguity, Absurdity, and Reversibility: Indeterminacy in De Beauvoir, Camus, and Merleau-PontyJournal of French and Francophone Philosophy 5 (1): 71-83. 1993.none.
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46The Shame of ShamelessnessHypatia 33 (3): 537-552. 2018.An important question that is often raised, whether directly or indirectly, in philosophical discussions of shame‐inducing behavior concerns whether the experience of shame has unique moral value. Despite the fact that shame is strongly associated with negative affective responses, many people have argued that the experience of being ashamed plays an important motivating role, rather than being an obstacle, in living a moral life. These discussions, however, tend to take for granted two interrel…Read more
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23Feminist Interpretations of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (edited book)Pennsylvania State University Press. 2006.The essays presented here by Olkowski and Weiss attempt to situate Merleau-Ponty in the larger context of feminist theory, while impartially evaluating his contributions, both positive and negative, to that theory.
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55The Perils and Pleasures of the “I Can” BodySymposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 21 (2): 63-80. 2017.Though Young’s “Throwing Like a Girl” has been praised for pre-senting the “I can” body as more of an aspiration than a reality for many women in the world today, she has also been criticized for claiming that women’s typical modes of bodily comportment are contradictory, and thus that their experience of the “I can” body is compromised. From her critics’ perspective, Young’s account seems to imply that women’s experiences of embodied agency are inferior or deficient in comparison to men who hav…Read more
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1Intertwined Identities: Challenges to Bodily AutonomyPerspectives: International Postgraduate Journal of Philosophy 2 (1): 22-37. 2009.Over the last decade, the international media has devoted increasing attention to operations that separate conjoined twins. Despite the fairly low odds that a child or adult will survive the operation with all of their vital organs intact, most people fail to question the urgency of being physically separated from one’s identical twin. The drive to surgically tear asunder that which was originally joined, I suggest, is motivated in part by a refusal to acknowledge intercorporeality as a basic co…Read more
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9" Politics Is a Living ThingIn Sally J. Scholz & Shannon M. Mussett (eds.), The Contradictions of Freedom: Philosophical Essays on Simone de Beauvoir's the Mandarins, State University of New York Press. pp. 119. 2005.
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3The abject borders of the body imageIn Gail Weiss & Honi Fern Haber (eds.), Perspectives on Embodiment: The Intersections of Nature and Culture, Routledge. pp. 41--59. 1999.
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2Introduction to Introduction to an ethics of ambiguityIn Margaret A. Simons, Marybeth Timmermann & Mary Beth Mader (eds.), Philosophical Writings, University of Illinois Press. pp. 1--281. 2004.
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4Écart: The Space of Corporeal DifferenceIn Professor Fred Evans, Fred Evans, Leonard Lawlor & Professor Leonard Lawlor (eds.), Chiasms: Merleau-Ponty's Notion of Flesh, Suny Press. pp. 203-216. 2000.
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714 Freedom F/Or the OtherIn Christine Daigle & Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of Influence, Indiana University Press. pp. 241. 2009.
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10Philosophers ofAmhiguityIn Shannon M. Mussett & William S. Wilkerson (eds.), Beauvoir and Western Thought From Plato to Butler, State University of New York Press. pp. 171. 2012.
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Mothers/intellectuals : alterities of a dual identityIn Helen Fielding, Hiltmann Gabrielle, Olkowski Dorothea & Reichold Anne (eds.), The other: feminist reflections in ethics, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 138. 2007.
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