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    Gender Identity Without Gender Prescriptions
    Symposium 2 (2): 223-235. 1998.
    The postmodern rejection of essentialism does not mean that feminist theorists must abandon all categorizations of women. Indeed, while it is important to deconstruct identities and highlight the differences among women, we need to arrive at some notion of gender identity for political purposes. In paying careful attention to the distinction between nominal essences and real essences, the author shows that the category of women can be maintained without resorting to the problems of traditional e…Read more
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    The postmodern rejection of essentialism does not mean that feminist theorists must abandon all categorizations of women. Indeed, while it is important to deconstruct identities and highlight the differences among women, we need to arrive at some notion of gender identity for political purposes. In paying careful attention to the distinction between nominal essences and real essences, the author shows that the category of women can be maintained without resorting to the problems of traditional e…Read more
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    Gender Identity without Gender Prescriptions
    The Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 20 104-111. 1998.
    The feminist philosopher Susan Bordo suggests that the dilemma of twentieth-century feminism is the tension between a gender identity that both mobilizes a liberatory politics on behalf of women and that results in gender prescriptions which excludes many women. This tension seems especially acute in feminist debates about essentialism/deconstructionism. Concentrating on the shared sex of women may run the risk of embracing an essentialism that ignores the differences among women, whereas emphas…Read more
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    Philosophy as Responsibility: A Celebration of Hendrik Hart's Contribution to the Discipline (edited book)
    with James H. Olthuis, Hendrik M. Vroom, John H. Kok, Dirk H. Th Vollenhoven, Nicholas John Ansell, Stoffel N. D. Francke, Gary R. Shahinian, Jeffrey Dudiak, Lambert Zuidervaart, D. Vaden House, Carroll Guen Hart, and Perry Recker
    Upa. 2002.
    This festschrift collects a number of insightful essays by a group of accomplished Christian scholars, all of who have either worked with or studied under Hendrik Hart during his 35-year tenure as Senior Member in Systematic Philosophy at the Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto, Canada
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    "Woman" in the Plural: Negotiating Sameness and Difference in Feminist Theory
    In James Olthuis & Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion (eds.), Towards an Ethics of Community: Negotiations of Difference in a Pluralist Society, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. pp. 74-90. 2006.