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1560On finding yourself in a state of nature: A Kantian account of abortion and voluntary motherhoodFeminist Philosophy Quarterly 5 (3). 2019.I defend the right to an abortion at any stage of pregnancy by drawing on a Kantian account of consent and innate right. I examine how pregnant women are positioned in moral and legal debates about abortion, and develop a Kanitan account of bodily autonomy in order to pregnant women’s epistemic authority over the experience of pregnancy. Second, I show how Kant's distinction between innate and private right offers an excellent legal framework for embodied rights, including abortion and sexual co…Read more
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669On finding yourself in a state of nature: a kantian account of abortion and voluntary motherhoodFeminist Philosophy Quarterly 5 (3). 2019.In this essay, I draw on Kant’s legal philosophy in order to defend the right to voluntary motherhood by way of abortion at any stage of pregnancy as an essential feature of women’s basic rights. By developing the distinction between innate and acquired right in Kant’s legal philosophy, I argue that the viability standard in US law (as established in Planned Parenthood v. Casey) misunderstands the nature of embodied right. Our body is the site of innate right; it is the means through which we ca…Read more
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114Parasitic Resilience: The Next Phase of Public Health Preparedness Must Address Disparities Between CommunitiesHealth Securities 21 (6). 2023.Community resilience, a system’s ability to maintain its essential functions despite disturbance, is a cornerstone of public health preparedness. However, as currently practiced, community resilience generally focuses on defined neighborhood characteristics to describe factors such as vulnerability or social capital. This ignores the way that residents of some neighborhoods (as ‘essential workers’’) were required during the COVID-19 pandemic to sacrifice their wellbeing for the sake of others st…Read more
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91A Universal Estate: Kant and Marriage EqualityIn Larry Krasnoff, Nuria Sánchez Madrid & Paula Satne (eds.), Kant's Doctrine of Right in the 21st Century, University of Wales Press. pp. 220-240. 2018.This paper explores Kant's account of marriage and its relevance to contemporary debates over same-sex marriage. Kant's defense of marriage is read against debates unfolding in Prussia in the 1790s, when the question of whether marriage was a "universal estate" was a central point of debate surrounding the Prussian Legal Code of 1794. By reading Kant's arguments in light of this historical context, and in comparison with those offered by his contemporaries, Fichte and von Hippel, this article sh…Read more
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75The Whiteness of ConsentIn Consent. 2023.The #MeToo movement generated a feminist insistence that we “believe women.” But the men accused of assault, harassment, and other violations frequently defended themselves with the insistence that they had always “respected women” – sometimes, going so far as to get numerous women to sign letters swearing that these men had always respected them. This common MeToo defense reveals the core inconsistency – and the core entitlement – at the heart of misogyny and sexual injustice: some women deserv…Read more
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28Surging Solidarity: Reorienting Ethics for PandemicsKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 30 (3): 419-444. 2020.ABSTRACT. Public discourse about ethics in the COVID-19 pandemic has tended to focus on scarcity of resources and the protection of civil liberties. We show how these preoccupations reflect an established disaster imaginary that orients the ethics of response. In this paper, we argue that pandemic ethics should instead be oriented through a relational account of persons as vulnerable vectors embedded in existing networks of care. We argue for the creation of a new disaster imaginary to shape our…Read more
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27Beyond Consent: On Setting and Sharing Sexual EndsPhilosophies 8 (2): 21. 2023.This paper formulates a response to standard accounts of Kantian sexual morality, by first clarifying why sex should be understood as a case of using a person as a thing, rather than merely as a means. The author argues that Kant’s remedy to this problem is not sexual consent, but a model of setting and sharing sexual ends. Kant’s account of sexual morality, read in this way, is a critical framework for contemporary moves to think beyond consent, and to grapple with concerns about sexual violati…Read more
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21Domestic Labor, Citizenship, and Exceptionalism: Rethinking Kant's “Woman Problem”Journal of Social Philosophy 46 (3): 340-356. 2015.
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19Katrin Flikschuh and Lea Ypi , Kant and Colonialism Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014 Pp. 255 ISBN 9780199669622 £40.00 (review)Kantian Review 21 (1): 127-130. 2016.
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16Kant's Theory of LabourCambridge University Press. 2022.This Element examines Kant's innovative account of labour in his political philosophy and develops an intersectional analysis of Kant. By demonstrating that Kant's analysis of slavery, citizenship, and sex developed in inter-linked ways over several decades, culminating in his development of a 'trichotomy' of Right, the author shows that Kant's normative account of independence is configured through his theory of labour, and is continuous with his anthropological accounts of race and gender, pro…Read more
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11Vicki A. Spencer, Herder’s Political Thought: A Study of Language, Culture, and Community Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012 Pp. 354 ISBN 9781442643024 $65.00 (review)Kantian Review 20 (1): 137-140. 2015.Book Reviews Jordan Pascoe, Kantian Review, FirstView Article
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1A Lasallian Response to Rape CultureAxis: A Lasallian Journal of Higher Education 11 (1): 129-155. 2020.The article offers a challenge to, and an invocation of, the values of Lasallian mission against rape culture. It addresses the continuum of violence, from outright misogynistic terrorism to an ongoing threat of assault and harassment, to the normalization of emotional and physical coercion of (primarily) women; and it explores historical responses within the Lasallian tradition to this pervasive problem in society and identifies a few rich resources within its underlying charism for tackling th…Read more
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On Not Being a Slut (Even When Everyone Thinks You Are)In George Dunn & James South (eds.), Veronica Mars and Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2014.The purity test scandal highlights a pervasive double standard: reputations shape the lives of just about everyone, but to be declared a slut is to be publicly denied the right to even basic kinds of respect. This chapter talks about purity test results where Meg Manning finds out that her score of 48 is plastered across her locker, along with the word “slut.” The locker next to hers, however, is marked with a 32 and the words “You're the best!” Either this locker belongs to a girl being mocked …Read more
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Rethinking Race and Gender in Kant: Towards a Non-Ideal, Intersectional KantSGIR Review 2 (2). 2019.In “Rethinking Race and Gender in Kant: Toward a Non-Ideal, Intersectional Kant,” Jordan Pascoe argues that Kant’s moral philosophy is productively read through the “non-ideal” lens of the sociopolitical concerns he faced and espoused. This lens in turn offers possibilities for thinking differently about the particular articulation that his formal principles take. She defends a non-ideal, modified methodological approach in which Kant’s problematic conception of race and gender are opportunities…Read more
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Manhattan CollegeDepartment of Philosophy
Women and Gender Studies
Critical Race StudiesAssociate Professor