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24Critical Précis for Katharine Jenkins’s “Amelioration and Inclusion: Gender Identity and the Concept of Woman,"Pea Soup: A Blog Dedicated to Philosophy, Ethics, and Academia. 2016.
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9Talia Mae Bettcher: What Is It Like To Be A Philosopher?What is It Like to Be a Philosopher. 2020.
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Recommended Models and Policies for LAPD Interactions with Trans IndividualsHuman Relations Commission. 2011.
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9Without a Net: Starting Points for Trans StoriesAmerican Philosophical Association Lgbt Newsletter 10 (2): 2-5. 2011.
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13The Role of the Illusion in the Construction of Erotic Desire: Narratives from Heterosexual Men Who Have Occasional Sex with Transgender WomenCulture, Health, and Sexuality 18 (8): 951-963. 2016.
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159Abstraction: Berkeley against LockeIn Timo Airaksinen & Bertil Belfrage (eds.), Berkeley's lasting legacy: 300 years later, Cambridge Scholars Press. pp. 135-156. 2011.
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6TransphobiaTransgender Studies Quarterly 1 (1): 249-51. 2014.This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, “Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies,” revolves around a particular keyword or concept. Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies; others describe a term of art from another discipline o…Read more
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15Intersexuality, Transsexuality, Transgender,In Lisa Jane Disch & M. E. Hawkesworth (eds.), The Oxford handbook of feminist theory, Oxford University Press. pp. 407-427. 2016.
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Through the Looking Glass: Transgender Theory Meets Feminist PhilosophyIn Ann Garry, Serene J. Khader & Alison Stone (eds.), Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy, Routledge. pp. 393-404. 2017.
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Getting ‘Naked’ in the Colonial/Modern Gender System: A Preliminary Trans Feminist Analysis of PornographyIn Mari Mikkola (ed.), Beyond Speech: Pornography and Analytic Feminist Philosophy, Oxford University Press. pp. 157-176. 2017.
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Trans 101In Raja Halwani, Alan Soble, Sarah Hoffman & Jacob Held (eds.), The Philosophy of Sex: Contemporary Readings, 7th edition, Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 119-137. 2017.
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Berkeley’s Concept of MindIn Richard Brook & Bertil Belfrage (eds.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Berkeley, Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 397-420. 2017.
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Trans PhenomenaIn Gail Weiss, Ann V. Murphy & Gayle Salamon (eds.), 50 Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology, Northwestern University Press. pp. 329-336. 2020.
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Feminist Philosophical Engagements with Trans TheoryIn Ásta & Kim Q. Hall (eds.), The Oxford handbook of feminist philosophy, Oxford University Press. pp. 531-540. 2021.
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450“When Selves Have Sex: What the Phenomenology of Trans Sexuality Can Teach Us About Sexual Orientation”Journal of Homosexuality 61 (5): 605-620. 2014.In this article, Bettcher argues that sexual attraction must be reconceptualized in light of transgender experience. In particular, Bettcher defends the theory of “erotic structuralism,” which replaces an exclusively other-directed account of gendered attraction with one that includes a gendered eroticization of self as an essential component. This erotic experience of self is necessary for other-directed gendered desire, where the two are bound together and mutually informing. One consequence o…Read more
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47Phenomenology, Agency, and RapeFeminist Philosophy Quarterly 9 (2). 2023.This essay engages with Cressida Heyes’s Anaesthetics of Existence (2020) on two points. First, it raises worries about Heyes’s apparent association of anaesthetic time with feminist resistance. Second, it reconsiders Heyes’s account of the specific harm involved in raping unconscious individuals, as well as her account of the sort of agency nullified by rape more generally, by appealing to the notion of interpersonal spatiality.
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701Trapped in the Wrong Theory: Re-Thinking Trans Oppression and ResistanceSigns 39 (2): 383-406. 2014.
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3Trans Philosophy: Meaning and Mattering (edited book)University of Minnesota Press. forthcoming.Trans Philosophy: Meaning and Mattering will be the first authoritative collection to establish trans philosophy as a unique field of inquiry. It defines trans philosophy as philosophical work that is accountable to and illuminative of transgender experiences, histories, cultural production, and politics. The book will showcase work from a range of fresh and established voices in this nascent field. It will address a variety of topics (e.g. embodiment, identity, language, law, politics, transpho…Read more
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2163"Trans Women and the Meaning of ‘Woman’"In A. Soble, N. Power & R. Halwani (eds.), Philosophy of Sex: Contemporary Readings, Sixth Edition, Rowan & Littlefield. pp. 233-250. 2013.
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61What Is Trans Philosophy?Hypatia 34 (4): 644-667. 2019.In this article, I explore the question “What is trans philosophy?” by viewing trans philosophy as a contribution to the field of trans studies. This requires positioning the question vis à vis Judith Butler's notion of philosophy's Other (that is, the philosophical work done outside of the boundaries of professional philosophy), as trans studies has largely grown from this Other. It also requires taking seriously Susan Stryker's distinction between the mere study of trans phenomena and trans st…Read more
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8The Spirit and the Heap: Berkeley and Hume on the Self and Self-ConsciousnessDissertation, University of California, Los Angeles. 1999.This dissertation concerns an important dispute between George Berkeley and David Hume. The dispute involves Berkeley's defense of his conception of the self as a spirit, a purely active being which perceives ideas; and Hume's elimination of that conception via his own, according to which the self is merely a heap, a causally connected system of perceptions. At bottom, this difference in the way that the self is conceptualized is informed by a fundamental difference in philosophical starting-poi…Read more
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53Evil Deceivers and Make-Believers: On Transphobic Violence and the Politics of IllusionHypatia 22 (3): 43-65. 2007.This essay examines the stereotype that transgender people are “deceivers” and the stereotype's role in promoting and excusing transphobic violence. The stereotype derives from a contrast between gender presentation and sexed body. Because gender presentation represents genital status, Bettcher argues, people who “misalign” the two are viewed as deceivers. The author shows how this system of gender presentation as genital representation is part of larger sexist and racist systems of violence and…Read more