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15Critical 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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8Talia 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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7Without a Net: Starting Points for Trans StoriesAmerican Philosophical Association Lgbt Newsletter 10 (2): 2-5. 2011.
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9The 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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65Abstraction: 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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5TransphobiaTransgender 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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8Intersexuality, 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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7The 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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316Evil 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
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4405Trans Women and Interpretive Intimacy: Some Initial Reflections”In D. Castenada (ed.), The Essential Handbook of Women's Sexuality, Praeger. pp. 51-68. 2013.
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1961Full‐Frontal Morality: The Naked Truth about GenderHypatia 27 (2): 319-337. 2012.This paper examines Harold Garfinkel's notion of the natural attitude about sex and his claim that it is fundamentally moral in nature. The author looks beneath the natural attitude in order to explain its peculiar resilience and oppressive force. There she reveals a moral order grounded in the dichotomously sexed bodies so constituted through boundaries governing privacy and decency. In particular, naked bodies are sex-differentiated within a system of genital representation through gender pres…Read more
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365Trans Feminism: Recent Philosophical DevelopmentsPhilosophy Compass 12 (11). 2017.This article introduces trans feminism as an intersectional analysis of sexist and transphobic forms of oppressions as well as current and historical feminist and trans conflicts over the inclusion of trans women. The first half examines recent feminist philosophical efforts to provide an analysis of the concept woman that is inclusive of trans women. The second examines recent responses to trans-exclusive feminist positions. The article concludes with an assessment of the current state of trans…Read more
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2823“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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41Phenomenology, 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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12354Trapped in the Wrong Theory: Re-Thinking Trans Oppression and ResistanceSigns 39 (2): 383-406. 2014.