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Telling stories, gaining wisdom : putting our voices into our practiceIn Alison L. Black & Susanne Garvis (eds.), Women activating agency in academia: metaphors, manifestos and memoir, Routledge. 2018.
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3Philosophical Reflections on Mothering in TraumaRoutledge. 2018.Philosophical Reflections on Mothering in Trauma examines the lived experience of mothering children who have been seriously harmed by others. Using an interdisciplinary approach, that employs a feminist phenomenology and an emphasis on narrative theory, this ground-breaking work gives voice to experiences of trauma, and of mothering, not ordinarily heard in philosophical discourses. With a philosophical lens, Melissa Burchard examines the challenges faced by families during the adoption and par…Read more
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7 What’s an Adoptive Mother to Do? When Your Child’s Desires Are a ProblemIn Sarah LaChance Adams & Caroline R. Lundquist (eds.), Coming to Life: Philosophies of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Mothering, Fordham University Press. pp. 138-168. 2013.
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21Abandoning Certainty in Favor of Moral ImaginationPhilosophy in the Contemporary World 23 (2): 12-23. 2016.I argue that rule-based decision-making models are desired because thought to create certainty. I then raise a number of problems with this assumption. Desiring certainty, and relying on rules to obtain it, leads to inconsistency in decision-making, and atrophy of moral imagination. I draw a parallel between Dworkin’s principles-based models in legal theory and Beauchamp and Childress’ in medical ethics. These models are more successful because they can account for more moral intuitions, and do …Read more
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Returning to the Body: A Philosophical Reconceptualization of ViolenceDissertation, University of Minnesota. 1996.This dissertation argues that traditional philosophical analyses of violence, which take war as a paradigm case, are done from a perspective which distances the body. This leads to conceptualizations in which the body, being de-personalized, figures only as an object or piece of evidence rather than a locus for analysis, and which focus on aspects "outside" the body, such as the amount of force involved and the intentions of the perpetrator. Shifting the paradigm case to violence against women, …Read more
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122What’s My Line? Gender, Performativity, and Bisexual IdentityRadical Philosophy Today 3 91-99. 2006.Although gay and lesbian theory may posit homosexuality as an oppositional challenge to heteronormativity, the author argues that homosexuality and heterosexuality share a common structure of desire that is based upon choosing the gender of one’s partner from only one gender in a binary gender framework. For this reason, the author introduces the term ‘monosexual’ to designate any sexual orientation, whether homosexual or heterosexual, which makes a single gender category into an exclusive crite…Read more
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