The Nobel prize-winning Cambridge biochemist Tim Hunt caused uproar this week, with some comments — which he later said were intended self-deprecatingly and humorously — to an audience of scientists, many of them women, on the topic of women in … Continue reading
I was recently giving a paper on Franco-Anglo Feminisms in Canada at panel on Canadian Feminisms at the Hypatia/CSW conference, Exploring Collaborative Contestations and Diversifying Philosophy, at Villanova. A subject that seems little discussed outside Québec and Franco-Canada is the … Continue reading
Some personal reflections on working in the feminist philosophy of disability from Elizabeth Barnes (University of Virginia): I have sat in philosophy seminars where it was asserted that I should be left to die on a desert island if the … Continue reading
A nice piece, perhaps most significant for appearing in the Washington Post, as its thesis is hardly news to readers of this blog (though some of the philosophers it mentions were, I confess, unfamiliar to me). It also includes a link to Project … Continue reading
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The deadline for submissions to IJFAB‘s upcoming special issue “See How She Runs: Feminists Rethink Fitness” has been extended to 1 June, 2015. From the CFP: Fitness is a neglected concept in bioethics but fitness is of key importance to women’s health … Continue reading
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I do not wish [women] to have power over men; but over themselves. —Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792 We learned, with great sadness, that Anne Donchin had passed away. She is a … Continue reading
In celebration of the 20th year of its Bioethics Programme, UNESCO has published an edited anthology, Global Bioethics: What For? It is freely available in its entirely online and features short essays by IJFAB advisory board member and one-time guest-contributor Daniel Callahan as … Continue reading
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“Trigger Warnings & Neoliberal Classrooms: Rethinking Pedagogy in Our Time of Precarity,” an interdisciplinary panel and discussion, will take place at the Stony Brook University Humanities Institute on Wednesday, February 18th at 4:00pm. We would like to begin the discussion here … Continue reading
Active members of FAB can now access the electronic edition of IJFAB on Project Muse, a database of more than 550 humanities and social science journals from 200-plus university presses and scholarly societies around the world that is managed by … Continue reading