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10Whiteness: Feminist Philosophical Reflections (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1999.Written in an engaging narrative style these philosophical investigations undermine racist hierarchies along with false natualistic conceptions of the meanings of race and universalistic understandings of gender, by considering whiteness as it shapes and is infused by gender, class, sexuality, and culture. Central to this project are questions about how it is that culture and the state create such a wide range of different people who understand themselves as white. The essays collected here disc…Read more
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28The Oxford handbook of feminist philosophy (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2021.This exciting new Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the contemporary state of the field. The editors' introduction and forty-five essays cover feminist critical engagements with philosophy and adjacent scholarly fields, as well as feminist approaches to current debates and crises across the world. Authors cover topics ranging from the ways in which feminist philosophy attends to other systems of oppression, and the gendered, racialized, and classed assumptions embedded in philosophical…Read more
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33Queering PhilosophyRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2022.Ideal for courses in philosophy and gender, sexuality, race and disability studies, Queering Philosophy provides a critical introduction to and engagement with current conversations and emerging themes at the nexus of queer theory and philosophy. This accessible and important book advances a queer feminist critique.
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On Being Slow: Philosophy and Disability in the US SouthIn Shannon Sullivan (ed.), Thinking the US South: contemporary philosophy from Southern perspectives, Northwestern University Press. 2021.
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65Limping Along: Toward a Crip PhenomenologyJournal of Philosophy of Disability 1 11-33. 2021.A queer crip embodied experience of limping is the point of departure for my reflections on the differences between a crip phenomenology and a phenomenology of disability. I argue that a crip phenomenology can further understanding of how ableism and heternormativity work together, along with other structures of violence, to shape experiences at the edges of ability and disability, and, indeed, the possibility of queer crip movement in and through worlds.
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156Oxford Handbook of Feminist Philosophy (edited book). 2021.This exciting new Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the contemporary state of the field in feminist philosophy. The editors' introduction and forty-five essays cover feminist critical engagements with philosophy and adjacent scholarly fields, as well as feminist approaches to current debates and crises across the world. Authors cover topics ranging from the ways in which feminist philosophy attends to other systems of oppression, and the gendered, racialized, and classed assumptions em…Read more
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9Sister woman chainsaw II: Reading chris cuomo's feminism and ecological communities: An ethic of flourishingEthics and the Environment 4 (1): 79-84. 1999.
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4Reimagining Disability and Gender through Feminist Disability StudiesIn Feminist Disability Studies, Indiana University Press. pp. 1--10. 2011.
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75Feminist Disability Studies (edited book)Indiana University Press. 2011.Disability, like questions of race, gender, and class, is one of the most provocative topics among theorists and philosophers today. This volume, situated at the intersection of feminist theory and disability studies, addresses questions about the nature of embodiment, the meaning of disability, the impact of public policy on those who have been labeled disabled, and how we define the norms of mental and physical ability. The essays here bridge the gap between theory and activism by illuminating…Read more
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26Philosophy, Religion, Race, and Queerness: A Question of Accommodation or AccessPhilosophical Topics 41 (2): 157-173. 2013.In this paper I consider recent feminist critiques of the whiteness of philosophy’s secularism. Building on the distinction in disability studies between accommodation and access, I argue that, in order to effectively address philosophy’s whiteness and heteronormativity, critiques of philosophy’s secularism must be accountable to religion’s historical and contemporary role in perpetuating harm against queer people. While it is absolutely crucial to critique and work to undo the whiteness of main…Read more
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So Why Don't You Just Leave? Thoughts on Feminist Solidarity in AcademiaApa Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy 99 (1). 1999.
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52Toward a Queer Crip Feminist Politics of FoodphiloSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism 4 (2): 177-196. 2014.
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41Queerness, Disability, and The Vagina MonologuesHypatia 20 (1): 99-119. 2005.This paper questions the connection between vaginas and feminist embodiment in The Vagina Monologues and considers how the text both challenges and reinscribes systems of patriarchy, compulsory heterosexuality, and ableism. I use the Intersex Society of North America's critique as a point of departure and argue that the text offers theorists and activists in feminist, queer, and disability communities an opportunity to understand how power operates in both dominant discourses that degrade vagina…Read more
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White Women Doing Critical Race Theory: Some Ethical and Political ConsiderationsAPA Newsletter on Black Experience and Law (Special Joint Issue on Critical Race Theory). 1999.
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184No FailureRadical Philosophy Review 17 (1): 203-225. 2014.This paper offers a critique of the emphasis on anti-futurity and failure prevalent in contemporary queer theory. I argue that responsibility for climate change requires commitments to futures that are queer, crip, and feminist. A queer crip feminist commitment to the future is, I contend, informed by radical hope
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4Queer Breasted ExperienceIn Laurie Shrage (ed.), You’Ve Changed: Sex Reassignment and Personal Identity, Oup Usa. 2009.
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3Reimaging Disability and Gender Through Feminist Studies: An IntroductionIn Feminist Disability Studies, Indiana University Press. pp. 1--10. 2011.
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42Book review: Bell hooks. Where we stand: Class matters. New York and London: Routledge 2000 (review)Hypatia 18 (2): 233-236. 2003.
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132This paper critiques the rise of scientific approaches to central questions in the humanities, specifically questions about human nature, ethics, identity, and experience. In particular, I look at how an increasing number of philosophers are turning to evolutionary psychology and neuroscience as sources of answers to philosophical problems. This approach constitutes what I term a biological turn in the humanities. I argue that the biological turn, especially its reliance on evolutionary psycholo…Read more
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4"Sensus Communis and Violence: A Feminist Reading of Kant's Critique of Judgment"In Robin May Schott (ed.), Feminist Interpretations of Immanuel Kant, Pennsylvania State University Press. 1997.
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