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17749Foucault, governmentality, and critical disability theory: An introductionIn _Foucault and the Government of Disability_, University of Michigan Press. pp. 1--24. 2005.
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2488Educating JouyHypatia 28 (2): 801-817. 2013.The feminist charge that Michel Foucault's work in general and his history of sexuality in particular are masculinist, sexist, and reflect male biases vexes feminist philosophers of disability who believe his claims about (for instance) the constitution of subjects, genealogy, governmentality, discipline, and regimes of truths imbue their feminist analyses of disability and ableism with complexity and richness, as well as inspire theoretical sophistication and intellectual rigor in the fields of…Read more
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1828Knowing Disability, DifferentlyIn Ian James Kidd & José Medina (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Injustice, Routledge. 2017.
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1649Reproductive freedom, self-regulation, and the government of impairment in uteroHypatia 21 (1): 35-53. 2006.: This article critically examines the constitution of impairment in prenatal testing and screening practices and various discourses that surround these technologies. While technologies to test and screen prenatally are claimed to enhance women's capacity to be self-determining, make informed reproductive choices, and, in effect, wrest control of their bodies from a patriarchal medical establishment, I contend that this emerging relation between pregnant women and reproductive technologies is a …Read more
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1373The biopolitics of bioethics and disabilityJournal of Bioethical Inquiry 5 (2-3): 101-106. 2008.
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1101Feminist Philosophy of Disability: A Genealogical InterventionSouthern Journal of Philosophy 57 (1): 132-158. 2019.This article is a feminist intervention into the ways that disability is researched and represented in philosophy at present. Nevertheless, some of the claims that I make over the course of the article are also pertinent to the marginalization in philosophy of other areas of inquiry, including philosophy of race, feminist philosophy more broadly, indigenous philosophies, and LGBTQI philosophy. Although the discipline of philosophy largely continues to operate under the guise of neutrality, ratio…Read more
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1035Review of Christine Overall`s Why Have Children? The Ethical Debate' (review)Apa Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy 12 (2): 20-22. 2013.
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977Biopower, Styles of Reasoning, and What's Still Missing from the Stem Cell DebatesHypatia 25 (3). 2010.Until now, philosophical debate about human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research has largely been limited to its ethical dimensions and implications. Although the importance and urgency of these ethical debates should not be underestimated, the almost undivided attention that mainstream and feminist philosophers have paid to the ethical dimensions of hESC research suggests that the only philosophically interesting questions and concerns about it are by and large ethical in nature. My argument goe…Read more
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973Philosophy of Disability as Critical Diversity StudiesInternational Journal of Critical Diversity Studies 1 (1). 2018.Critical diversity studies (CDS) can be found within “traditional,” or “established,” university disciplines, such as philosophy, as well as in relatively newer departments of the university, such as African studies departments, women’s and gender studies departments, and disability studies departments. In this article, therefore, I explain why philosophy of disability, an emerging subfield in the discipline of philosophy, should be recognized as an emerging area of CDS also. My discussion in th…Read more
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937This is What a Historicist and Relativist Feminist Philosophy of Disability Looks LikeFoucault Studies (19): 7. 2015.ABSTRACT: With this article, I advance a historicist and relativist feminist philosophy of disability. I argue that Foucault’s insights offer the most astute tools with which to engage in this intellectual enterprise. Genealogy, the technique of investigation that Friedrich Nietzsche famously introduced and that Foucault took up and adapted in his own work, demonstrates that Foucault’s historicist approach has greater explanatory power and transgressive potential for analyses of disability than …Read more
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890Philosophy and the Apparatus of DisabilityIn Adam Cureton & David Wasserman (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Disability, Oxford University Press. 2018.Abstract and Keywords Mainstream philosophers take for granted that disability is a prediscursive, transcultural, and transhistorical disadvantage, an objective human defect or characteristic that ought to be prevented, corrected, eliminated, or cured. That these assumptions are contestable, that it might be the case that disability is a historically and culturally specific, contingent social phenomenon, a complex apparatus of power, rather than a natural attribute or property that certain peopl…Read more
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595The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability, by Elizabeth Barnes: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. xxii + 200, £25 (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 96 (1): 203-203. 2018.
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595Stemming the tide of normalisation: An expanded feminist analysis of the ethics and social impact of embryonic stem cell researchJournal of Bioethical Inquiry 3 (1-2): 33-42. 2006.Feminists have indicated the inadequacies of bioethical debates about human embryonic stem cell research, which have for the most part revolved around concerns about the moral status of the human embryo. Feminists have argued, for instance, that inquiry concerning the ethics and politics of human embryonic stem cell research should consider the relations of social power in which the research is embedded. My argument is that this feminist work on stem cells is itself inadequate, however, insofar …Read more
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460When Moral Responsibility Theory Met My Philosophy of DisabilityFeminist Philosophy Quarterly. forthcoming.In this article, I aim to demonstrate that moral responsibility theory produces, legitimates, and even magnifies the considerable social injustice that accrues to disabled people insofar as it implicitly and explicitly promotes a depoliticized ontology of disability that construes disability as a naturally disadvantageous personal characteristic or deleterious property of individuals rather than identifies it as an effect of power, an apparatus. In particular, I argue that the methodological too…Read more
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406Philosophy of Disability, Conceptual Engineering, and the Nursing Home-Industrial-Complex in CanadaInternational Journal of Critical Diversity Studies 4 (1): 10-33. 2021.ABSTRACT In this article, I indicate how the naturalized and individualized conception of disability that prevails in philosophy informs the indifference of philosophers to the predictable COVID-19 tragedy that has unfolded in nursing homes, supported living centers, psychiatric institutions, and other institutions in which elders and younger disabled people are placed. I maintain that, insofar as feminist and other discourses represent these institutions as sites of care and love, they enact st…Read more
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298A Zoom discussion about racism and ableism in philosophy.
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235Introduction: Philosophies of Disability and the Global PandemicInternational Journal of Critical Diversity Studies 4 (1): 6-9. 2021.
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159On the Subject of ImpairmentIn Corker And Shakespeare (ed.), Disability/Postmodernity: Embodying Disability Theory, . pp. 32. 2002.
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155Foucault and the Government of Disability (edited book)University of Michigan Press. 2005.The provocative essays in this volume respond to Foucault's call to question what is regarded as natural, inevitable, ethical, and liberating, while they ...
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102On the Government of Disability: Foucault, Power, and the Subject of ImpairmentIn Lennard J. Davis (ed.), The Disability Studies Reader, Routledge. 2006.
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66One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of NormalInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 2 (1): 181-184. 2009.
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