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Towards a New Conception of OwnershipDissertation, Harvard University. 1985.The nature, extent and validity of the modern institution of private ownership remains a major source of contention between libertarian, liberal and socialist positions in political theory. The thesis contributes to current debates by ways of an analysis of historically significant theories of property, viewed in connection with their underlying conceptions of the person. ;The dissertation consists of three parts. Part One is an exposition of J. Locke's natural rights theory, together with Hegel…Read more
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Traces of Hegelian philosophy of law in Rawls, John theory+ eine'theorie der gerechtigkeit'Hegel-Studien 27 77-110. 1992.
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178. Contractarians and Feminists Debate ProstitutionIn Jessica Spector (ed.), Prostitution and Pornography: Philosophical Debate About the Sex Industry, Stanford University Press. pp. 209-239. 2006.
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13Review of Jennifer Dale and Peggy Foster: Feminists and State Welfare (Rle Feminist Theory) (review)Ethics 98 (4): 863-864. 1988.
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375Rawls and Ownership: The Forgotten Category of Reproductive LaborCanadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 13 (n/a): 139-167. 1987.A careful, theoretical clarification of gender roles has only recently begun in social and political philosophy. It is the aim of the following piece to reveal that an analysis of women’s traditional position - her distinctive activities, labor and surrounding sense of ‘mine’ - can not only make valuable contributions towards clarifying traditional property disputes, but may even provide elements for a new conception of ownership. By way of illustration, the article focusses on the influential w…Read more
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7Rawls and Ownership: The Forgotten Category of Reproductive LaborCanadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 13 (n/a): 139-167. 1987.A careful, theoretical clarification of gender roles has only recently begun in social and political philosophy. It is the aim of the following piece to reveal that an analysis of women’s traditional position - her distinctive activities, labor and surrounding sense of ‘mine’ - can not only make valuable contributions towards clarifying traditional property disputes, but may even provide elements for a new conception of ownership. By way of illustration, the article focusses on the influential w…Read more
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48Civic Friendship: A Critique of Recent Care TheoryCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 10 (2): 233-255. 2007.In recent years feminists have begun arguing for various political conceptions of ‘care’. I have argued, by contrast, for the intimate connection between the women’s movement of the last half century, and the growing realization of the necessity of civic friendship as a condition for genuine justice. I only repeat the outlines of my argument here, for my goal is to look at various institutions which might help realize not merely ‘public care’ – contemporary theories of which I argue need a far m…Read more
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15Rawls and Ownership: The Forgotten Category of Reproductive LaborCanadian Journal of Philosophy 17 (sup1): 139-167. 1987.A careful, theoretical clarification of gender roles has only recently begun in social and political philosophy. It is the aim of the following piece to reveal that an analysis of women’s traditional position - her distinctive activities, labor and surrounding sense of ‘mine’ - can not only make valuable contributions towards clarifying traditional property disputes, but may even provide elements for a new conception of ownership. By way of illustration, the article focusses on the influential w…Read more
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20A Political Reading of the Reproductive Soul in AristotleHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 9 (3). 1992.
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30Valuing ideal theory: Reflections on Virginia held's critique of RawlsMetaphilosophy 21 (1-2): 162-178. 1990.
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25Review of Nancy J. Hirschmann, Kirstie M. McClure (eds.), Feminist Interpretations of John Locke (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (10). 2007.
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20Book Review:Feminists and State Welfare. Jennifer Dale, Peggy Foster (review)Ethics 98 (4): 863-. 1988.
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