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Hegel's Ethical Thought and Feminist Social CriticismDissertation, University of Michigan. 1992.Two important and perplexing questions confronting movements of political liberation concern the extent to which group critiques of oppression can or should be expressed in universalist terms, and that to which the agency of unwitting oppressors is impugned in these critiques. These questions are related in that the justification for agent-criticism turns, in large part, on the universal accessibility of an act's wrongness. Hegel criticized Kant's moral theory both for its assertion that intenti…Read more
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58The ethic of care for the self as a practice of freedomPhilosophy and Social Criticism 12 (2-3): 112-131. 1987.
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10Civic virtues, divided societies, and democratic dilemmas (edited book)Philosophy Documentation Center. 2013.
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4Food (edited book)Philosophy Documentation Center. 2014.This volume of Social Philosophy Today contains a selection of papers presented at the 30th International Social Philosophy Conference (2013), an annual event sponsored by the North American Society for Social Philosophy. The theme of the conference was "Food". This volume invites wider discussion of the issues explored at the conference, including food production, distribution, and consumption. Contributors include Susan Dielman, Erinn Gilson, Joan McGregor, José Medina, Andrew Pierce, and Sall…Read more
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8Power, protest, and the future of democracy (edited book)Philosophy Documentation Center. 2015.This volume of Social Philosophy Today contains a selection of papers presented at the 31st International Social Philosophy Conference (2014), an annual event sponsored by the North American Society for Social Philosophy. The theme of the conference was "Power, Protest, and the Future of Democracy". This volume invites wider discussion of the issues explored at the conference.
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21The Politics of Legal Abortion: From Direct Action to DialogueHypatia 36 (4): 800-804. 2021.In her highly influential 1984 study Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood, Kristin Luker speculates that opposition to legal abortion among women was likely to be strongest among those who were full-time homemakers without a college education. But despite a marked decline in that demographic group and a well-documented rise in public support for gender equality since then, the rate of support for legal abortion has remained stubbornly fixed at between fifty and fifty-five percent. This tepid …Read more
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16Feminism and Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: ‘Lordship and Bondage’ and ‘Ethical Action’Hegel Bulletin 30 (1-2): 42-53. 2009.
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2Michael Clifford, Political Genealogy After Foucault: Savage Identities Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 22 (6): 399-401. 2002.
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2Feminism and Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: ‘Lordship and Bondage’ and ‘Ethical Action’Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 59 42-53. 2009.
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91Peter de Marneffe, Liberalism and Prostitution (review)Social Theory and Practice 39 (1): 171-178. 2013.
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21Hegel and Feminist Social Criticism: Justice, Recognition, and the Feminine (edited book)State University of New York Press. 1997.Bringing Hegelian texts into a critical dialogue with the work of a number of important feminists, h
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1Thomas W. Busch and Shaun Gallagher, eds., Merleau-Ponty, Hermeneutics, and Postmodernism Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 14 (5): 312-315. 1994.
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Noelle McMee, Habermas, Kristeva, and Citizenship Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 21 (4): 273-275. 2001.
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29Review of Kimberley Hutchings, Tuija Pulkkinen (eds.), Hegel's Philosophy and Feminist Thought: Beyond Antigone? (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2011 (2). 2011.
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30Helen Fein, Human Rights and Wrongs: Slavery, Terror, Genocide: Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 2007 (review)Human Rights Review 10 (3): 457-459. 2009.
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17Consent, Coercion, and Sexual AutonomyIn Keith Burgess-Jackson (ed.), A Most Detestable Crime: New Philosophical Essays on Rape, Oxford University Press. pp. 71-91. 1999.Feminist legal scholarship has questioned the usefulness of non-consent as a criterion for rape. Under conditions of generalized sexual oppression, consent may not be an adequate for absence of coercion. I defend this argument and propose that rape law reform can be usefully informed by state protection of workers in the capitalist labor market, where it is assumed that the parties occupy an unequal bargaining position
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380Prostitution, Sexual Autonomy, and Sex DiscriminationHypatia 26 (1). 2011.Feminist critics of the stigmatization of prostitution such as Martha Nussbaum and Sybil Schwarzenbach argue that the features of the practice do not, or at least need not, differ essentially from those of other more respected sorts of labor. I argue that even the least degraded forms of the current practice of prostitution remain objectionable on feminist grounds because patrons demand a semblance of sexual self-expression that engages discriminatory beliefs about women's sexuality
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