Title: Phallicism as Racism against the Male Target: Dehumanization, Misandric Aggression, and the Splitting of Gender. Abstract: Much of the current theory explaining the vulnerability of racialized outgroup males focus on death. In Adam Jones鈥檚 (2000) account of gendercide as well as Jim Sidanius鈥檚 (1999) theory of Social Dominance, outgroup or subordinate males become specifically…
Title: Some Thoughts on Victimhood and Feminism Abstract: In her book Conflict Is Not Abuse (2016), Sarah Schulman argues that, in many domains of public and private life, false accusations of harm allow (groups of) people to conflate 鈥渃onflict,鈥� which is quotidian, and 鈥渁buse,鈥� which is more problematic but infrequent. The general tendency to mis-identify…
Title:聽Respect, Religion, and Feminism: Political Liberalism as Feminist Liberalism? Abstract:聽This chapter considers whether political liberalism, specifically, can be used for feminist ends. There is significant disagreement among feminists and liberals about the compatibility between their two doctrines. Political liberalism is vulnerable to particular criticism from feminists, who argue that its restricted form of equality is…
You are cordially invited to join us on a cover-to-cover reading of Meyer’s 2020聽Midnight Sun. The meeting will be online. We will discuss chapters 5-10. Still, even if you don’t manage to catch up on the reading, you’re still more than welcome to show up! If you want to sign up get in touch with…
Wee gathering to hang, catch up, and start the new academic year. All welcome! Drinks and snacks provided.
Title: Why it Matters When 鈥淗uman鈥� Means 鈥淲hite鈥� or 鈥淢an鈥� Abstract: This paper is part of a larger project that seeks to vindicate a claim often made in feminist and decolonial theory, but whose relevance to political philosophy is rarely understood: the claim that the concept of the human has been a vehicle of oppression.…
Title: 聽‘What聽can(not)聽social聽norms聽do?’ Abstract: In this (very) exploratory paper I investigate the relationship between social normativity and other domains of normativity. I suggest that given a metaphysically productive relationship between pernicious social norms and ideological social construction, pernicious social norms can create ontologically oppressive kinds, and consequently this can mar some seemingly valuable features of epistemic…