• The Interconnection of Aesthetics and Ethics as Revealed in Martial Arts
    with Jason Holt
    Fair Play, Journal of Philosophy, Ethics and Law of Sport 14 (1): 73-91. 2019.
    The authors show that martial arts illustrate how ethical and aesthetic value intersect within and beyond sport. While they do not aim to provide a comprehensive analysis of martial arts in this paper, they do plan to draw parallels between sport and martial arts for the purpose of recognizing how martial arts practice may be both aesthetically pleasing and grounded in ethically relevant aims. The upshot of this paper is not wholly positive, however, since the authors draw attention to ethical…Read more
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    Martial Arts and Moral Life
    In Graham Priest Priest & Damon Young Young (eds.), Martial Arts and Philosophy: Engagement, Routledge. 2014.
    A key point of feminist moral philosophy is that social and political conditions continue to work against women’s ability to flourish as moral agents. By pointing to how violence against women undermines both autonomy and integrity I uncover a significant means through which women are undermined in society. My focus is on violence against women as a pervasive, inescapable social condition that women can counter through self-defence training.
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    Sylvia Burrow explores self-confidence as integral to autonomy development within everyday contexts threatening gender violence, arguing that self-defense training is significant to resistance and resilience. Choice Reviews, December 2022 Issue: “Gender Violence explores the myths and realities of the threat of gender-based violence and active forms of resistance to it…. She advocates specifically for martial arts and self-defense programs rooted in feminist frameworks. These are the most succes…Read more
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    Susan Sherwin's approach to bioethics promotes more inclusive and less oppressive sociopolitical environments within healthcare for marginalized groups. Sherwin's relational theory of autonomy endorses this aim in targeting live options as bellwethers for recognizing contexts constraining or promoting autonomy. Those contexts closing off certain options as pursuable in practice limit autonomy while those promoting a plurality of practically pursuable courses of action are autonomy enhancing. Att…Read more
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    Recognition, Respect and Athletic Excellence
    Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 14 (1): 76-91. 2018.
    Scholars across disciplines recognize sport as an institution perpetuating sexism and bias against women in light of its masculine ideals. However, little philosophical research identifies how a masculine environment impacts women’s possibilities in sport. This paper shows that socially structured masculine ideals of athletic excellence impact recognition of women’s athletic achievements while contributing to contexts endangering respect and self-respect. Exploring athletic disrespect reveals co…Read more
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    Correction to: Vulnerability, Harm, and Compromised Ethics Revealed by the Experiences of Queer Birthing Women in Rural Healthcare
    with Lisa Goldberg, Jennifer Searle, and Megan Aston
    Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 15 (4): 525-525. 2018.
    The following Acknowledgments were omitted in the original publication.
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    Vulnerability, Harm, and Compromised Ethics Revealed by the Experiences of Queer Birthing Women in Rural Healthcare
    with Lisa Goldberg, Jennifer Searle, and Megan Aston
    Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 15 (4): 511-524. 2018.
    Phenomenological interviews with queer women in rural Nova Scotia reveal significant forms of trauma experienced during labour and birth. Situating the accounts of participants within both phenomenological and intersectional analyses reveals harms enabled by structurally embedded heteronormative and homophobic healthcare practices and policies. Our account illustrates the breadth and depth of harm experienced and outlines how these violate core ethical principles and values in healthcare.
  • In An Anthology of Philosophical Studies
    Athens Institute for EDucation and Research. 2006.
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    Protecting One’s Commitments: Integrity and Self-Defense
    International Journal of Applied Philosophy 26 (1): 49-66. 2012.
    Living in a culture of violence against women leads women to employ any number of avoidance and defensive strategies on a daily basis. Such strategies may be self protective but do little to counter women’s fear of violence. A pervasive fear of violence comes with a cost to integrity not addressed in moral philosophy. Restricting choice and action to avoid possibility of harm compromises the ability to stand for one’s commitments before others. If Calhoun is right that integrity is a matter of s…Read more
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    Introduction: Feminism, Autonomy, and Reproductive Technology
    with Dana S. Belu and Elizabeth Soliday
    Techne 16 (1): 1-2. 2012.
    This introduction presents the converging points of view (including those from continental philosophy, analytic philosophy, psychology and sociology) on issues regarding reproductive technologies, especially as they relate to childbirth.
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    Trampled Autonomy: Women, Athleticism, and Health
    International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 9 (2): 67-91. 2016.
    Sport is recognized both in sport studies and in the social sciences as a social institution forming, reinforcing, and perpetuating male hegemony. They recognize the constraints, barriers, and harms to women arising from current gendered social structures but cannot be expected to advance philosophical implications. Yet, the latter requires attention since sport not only mirrors but appears to magnify oppressive gendered practices. This article hopes to meet that need through a feminist philosop…Read more
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    Reproductive Autonomy and Reproductive Technology
    Techne 16 (1): 31-45. 2012.
    This paper presents a relational account of autonomy showing that a technological imperative impedes autonomy through undermining women’s capacity to resist use of technology in the context of labor and birth. A technological imperative encourages dependence on technology for reassurance whenever possible through creating a (i) separation of maternal and fetal interests; and (ii) perceived need to use technology whenever possible. In response I offer an account of how women might promote autono…Read more
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    Review: Lack of Character, John Doris. (review)
    Metapsychology Online Review 7 (11). 2003.
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    Accessing new understandings of trauma-informed care with queer birthing women in a rural context
    with Jennifer Searle, Lisa Goldberg, and Megan Aston
    Journal of Clinical Nursing 26 (21-22): 3576-3587. 2017.
    Aims and objectives. Participant narratives from a feminist and queer phe- nomenological study aim to broaden current understandings of trauma. Examin- ing structural marginalisation within perinatal care relationships provides insights into the impact of dominant models of care on queer birthing women. More specifically, validation of queer experience as a key finding from the study offers trauma-informed strategies that reconstruct formerly disempowering perinatal relationships. Background. He…Read more
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    : How much power does emotional dismissal have over the oppressed's ability to trust outlaw emotions, or to stand for such emotions before others? I discuss Sue Campbell 's view of the interpretation of emotion in light of the political significance of emotional dismissal. In response, I suggest that feminist conventions of interpretation developed within dialogical communities are best suited to providing resources for expressing, interpreting, defining, and reflecting on our emotions
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    Academic Autonomy
    In O'Reilly Andrea & O'Brien Hallstein Lynn (eds.), In Being and Thinking as an Academic Mother: Theory and Narritive, Dementer Press. 2011.
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    Reasonable Moral Psychology and the Kantian Ace in the Hole
    Social Philosophy Today 17 37-55. 2001.
    Rawls's political constructivism in Political Liberalism maintains that the two principles of justice will be accepted and endorsed by persons who are both reasonable and rational. A Theory of Justice explains the motivation to endorse the political conception on the basis of a Kantian moral psychology. Both Leif Wenar and Brian Barry argue that despite Rawls's claims to the contrary, the later work still supposes a Kantian moral psychology. If so, political constructivism fails to account for s…Read more
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    Courage, Self-Trust, and Self-Defencce
    In Burrow Sylvia (ed.), In An Anthology of Philosophical Studies, Athens Institute For Education and Research. pp. 235-246. 2006.
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    This essay argues that ideals of cooperation or adversariality in argumentation are not equally attainable for women. Women in argumentation contexts face oppressive limitations undermining argument success because their authority is undermined by gendered norms of politeness. Women endorsing or, alternatively, transgressing feminine norms of politeness typically defend their authority in argumentation contexts. And yet, defending authority renders it less legitimate. My argument focuses on wome…Read more
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    Review: The Self and Its Emotions, Kristján Kristjánsson. (review)
    Metapsychology Online Review 14 (20). 2010.
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    Socialization enforces gendered standards of politeness that encourage men to be dominating and women to be deferential in mixed-gender discourse. This gendered dynamic of politeness places women in a double bind. If women are to participate in polite discourse with men, and thus to avail of smooth and fortuitous social interaction, women demote themselves to a lower social ranking. If women wish to rise above such ranking, then they fail to be polite and hence, open themselves to a wellspring o…Read more