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587Prostitution and PaternalismIn David Boersema (ed.), Dimensions of Moral Agency, Cambridge Scholars. pp. 194-202. 2014.Both liberals and feminists have long criticized the paternalistic approach to prostitution found in most jurisdictions in the U.S. In his recent book Prostitution and Liberalism, Peter de Marneffe defends just such an intervention, arguing that the demonstrated harmfulness of a life of prostitution justifies paternalistic policies aimed at reducing the number of women who are involved in it. Although de Marneffe does not endorse the prohibitionist approach typical in the U.S., he argues that t…Read more
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367Prostitution, 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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270Hegel and the Problem of Particularity in Moral JudgmentWomen's Philosophy Review 22 58-79. 1999.Barbara Herman's account of rules of moral salience goes far in explaining how Kantian moral theory can integrate historically emergent normative criticisms such as that offered by feminists. The ethical motives that initially lead historical agents to expand our moral categories, however, are often at odds with Kant's (and Herman's) theory of moral motivations. I argue that Hegel offers a more accurate account of ethical motivation under oppressive conditions.
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108The ethic of care for the self as a practice of freedomPhilosophy and Social Criticism 12 (2-3): 112-131. 1987.
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87Peter de Marneffe, Liberalism and Prostitution (review)Social Theory and Practice 39 (1): 171-178. 2013.
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81Schiller’s Critique of Kant’s Moral PsychologyCanadian Journal of Philosophy 27 (4): 513-543. 1997.Mention of the name of Friedrich Schiller among both critics and defenders of Kant's moral philosophy has most often been with reference to the well known quip:“Gladly I serve my friends, but alas I do it with pleasure.Hence I am plagued with doubt that I am not a virtuous person.““Sure, your only resource is to try to despise them entirely,And then with aversion to do what your duty enjoins you.''This attention, however, has served to obscure the fact that Schiller truly intended his remark as …Read more
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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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19Review 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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18Hegel 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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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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16The 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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14Feminism and Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: ‘Lordship and Bondage’ and ‘Ethical Action’Hegel Bulletin 30 (1-2): 42-53. 2009.
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8Civic virtues, divided societies, and democratic dilemmas (edited book)Philosophy Documentation Center. 2013.
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7Power, 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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2Food (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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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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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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