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Hobbes on the FamilyIn Aloysius Martinich & Kinch Hoekstra (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Hobbes, Oxford University Press. 2013.The family is ignored by many readers of Hobbes, but it plays a central role in Hobbes’s conception of the state and of human nature. This essay considers the various theories of whether the family exists in the state of nature, and in what form—patriarchal or not--and poses its own answer to the challenges posed by Hobbes’s ambiguous comments on women, children, the family, and the state.
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24The Duty to Obey the Law: Selected Philosophical Readings (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1998.The question 'Why should I obey the law?' introduces a contemporary puzzle that is as old as philosophy itself. The puzzle is especially troublesome if we think of cases in which breaking the law is not otherwise wrongful, and in which the chances of getting caught are negligible. Philosophers from Socrates to H.L.A. Hart have struggled to give reasoned support to the idea that we do have a general moral duty to obey the law but, more recently, the greater number of learned voices has expressed …Read more
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Rawls, freedom, and disability : a feminist rereadingIn Ruth Abbey (ed.), Feminist Interpretations of John Rawls, Pennsylvania State University Press. 2013.
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15What's Right with Positive Liberty: Agency, Autonomy, and the OtherIn Jacob Levy, Jocelyn Maclure & Daniel Weinstock (eds.), Interpreting Modernity: Essays on the Work of Charles Taylor, Mcgill-queen's University Press. pp. 114-124. 2020.
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26Gender Struggles: Practical Approaches to Contemporary Feminism (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2002.The sixteen essays in Gender Struggles address a wide range of issues in gender struggles, from the more familiar ones that, for the last thirty years, have been the mainstay of feminist scholarship, such as motherhood, beauty, and sexual violence, to new topics inspired by post-industrialization and multiculturalism, such as the welfare state, cyberspace, hate speech, and queer politics, and finally to topics that traditionally have not been seen as appropriate subjects for philosophizing, such…Read more
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36 Gordon Schochet on Hobbes, Gratitude, and WomenIn Nancy J. Hirschmann & Joanne Harriet Wright (eds.), Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes, Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 125-146. 2012.
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91 Hobbes, History, Politics, and Gender: A Conversation with Carole Pateman and Quentin SkinnerIn Nancy J. Hirschmann & Joanne Harriet Wright (eds.), Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes, Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 18-44. 2012.
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10Introduction: The Many Faces of ‘‘Mr. Hobs’’In Nancy J. Hirschmann & Joanne Harriet Wright (eds.), Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes, Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 1-17. 2012.
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1Positive liberty, feminism and disabilityIn John Philip Christman (ed.), Positive Freedom: Past, Present, and Future, Cambridge University Press. 2021.
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51Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes (edited book)Pennsylvania State University Press. 2012._Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes _features the work of feminist scholars who are centrally engaged with Hobbes’s ideas and texts and who view Hobbes as an important touchstone in modern political thought. Bringing together scholars from the disciplines of philosophy, history, political theory, and English literature who embrace diverse theoretical and philosophical approaches and a range of feminist perspectives, this interdisciplinary collection aims to appeal to an audience of Hobbes…Read more
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33Diderot’s Letter on the Blind as Disability Political TheoryPolitical Theory 48 (1): 84-108. 2020.This essay considers Denis Diderot’s Letter on the Blind for the Use of Those Who Can See as a work that can contribute to a disability political theory. By recounting the experiences of visually impaired persons in their own words, Diderot opens up possibilities for a disability politics of self-representation, maintaining that sighted persons should listen to blind persons’ accounts of their own experience rather than relying on their own imaginings and assumptions. By using blind experiences …Read more
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180Response to Friedman and BrisonHypatia 21 (4): 201-211. 2001.Here, Hirschmann responds to Marilyn Friedman and Susan J. Brison's comments on The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom. She clarifies some aspects of her social construction argument, articulates the role of discourse and its relation to material reality, and explicates the potentially paradoxical case of support for women's choices when those choices produce harm
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80Disability, Feminism, and IntersectionabilityRadical Philosophy Review 16 (2): 649-662. 2013.Critical theorists should turn to disability as an important category of intersectional analysis. I demonstrate this through one type of critical theory—namely, feminism. Disability intersects with all vectors of identity, since disability affects people of all races, ethnicities, religions, genders, sexualities, and classes. Gender and sexuality are particularly illustrative because disability is configured in ways that map onto negative images of femininity. Additionally, the ways in which fem…Read more
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27Response to Friedman and BrisonHypatia 21 (4): 201-211. 2006.Here, Hirschmann responds to Marilyn Friedman and Susan]. Brison's comments on The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom. She clarifies some aspects of her social construction argument, articulates the role of discourse and its relation to material reality, and explicates the potentially paradoxical case of support for women's choices when those choices produce harm.
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FeminismIn George Klosko (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Political Philosophy, Oxford University Press Uk. 2011.
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24Feminist Interpretations of John Locke (edited book)Pennsylvania State University Press. 2007.Essays by leading figures in feminist theory and philosophy on John Locke. Includes reprints of three early foundational feminist analyses of Locke with authors' contemporary reflections on their earlier work, as well as articles about Locke on class, women's work, religion, reproduction, masculinity, and money.
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22Revisioning the political: feminist reconstructions of traditional concepts in western political theory (edited book)Westview Press. 1996.Feminist scholars have been remaking the landscape in political theory, and in this important book some of the most important feminist political theorists provide reconstructions of those concepts most central to the tradition of political philosophy. The goal is nothing less than the construction of a blueprint for a positive feminist theory.Many of these papers are completely new; others are extensions of important earlier work; two are reprints of classic papers. The result is a progress repo…Read more
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21Feminist political philosophyIn Kittay Eva Feder & Martín Alcoff Linda (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains section titled: Doing Politics with Gender Feminist Concepts Practical Issues The Future of Feminist Political Philosophy Notes.
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Mill, Political Economy, and Women's WorkAmerican Political Science Review 102 (2): 199-203. 2008.The sexual division of labor and the social and economic value of women’s work in the home has been a problem that scholars have struggled with at least since the advent of the “second wave” women’s movement, but it has never entered into the primary discourses of political science. This paper argues that John Stuart Mill’s Political Economy provides innovative and useful arguments that address this thorny problem. Productive labor is essential to Mill’s conception of property, and property was …Read more
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44The Sexual Division of Labor and the Split PaycheckHypatia 31 (3): 651-667. 2016.This essay takes up an apparently minor idea of Susan Moller Okin's Justice, Gender, and the Family—that employers should split the paycheck of wage-earning husbands between employees and their stay-at-home spouses—and suggests that it actually threatens to undermine Okin's entire argument by perpetuating the most central cause of women's inequality by Okin's own account: the sexual division of labor. Recognizing the vital contributions that Okin's seminal work made and the impact that it had on…Read more
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95Queer/Fear: Disability, Sexuality, and The Other (review)Journal of Medical Humanities 34 (2): 139-147. 2013.This paper examines the relationship between disability and “queerness.” I argue that the hostility frequently expressed against both disabled and queer individuals is a function of fear of the undecidability of the body. I draw on feminist, queer, and disability theory to help us understand this phenomenon and suggest that these different kinds of theories have a complementary relationship. That is, feminist and queer theory help us see how this fear works, disability theory helps us see why it…Read more
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48Difference as an occasion for rights: A feminist rethinking of rights, liberalism, and differenceCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 2 (1): 27-55. 1999.(1999). Difference as an occasion for rights: A feminist rethinking of rights, liberalism, and difference. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: Vol. 2, Feminism, Identity and Difference, pp. 27-55.
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'Sympathy, Empathy, and Obligation: A Feminist Rereading'In Anne Jaap Jacobson (ed.), Feminist Interpretations of David Hume, Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 174--193. 2000.
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