ETHICS, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY READING GROUP: 

The group has been meeting regularly.  Most recent discussions have focussed on essays in this volume:  Recognition, Responsibility, and Rights: Feminist Ethics and Social Theory edited by Robin N. Fiore and Hilde Lindemann Nelson (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003).

The group met in November.  The next meeting will be announced here soon.  For more information about the reading group, email Anne Donchin at adonchin@iupui.edu.

Here is information about the book currently under discussion:
Recognition, Responsibility, and Rights: Feminist Ethics and Social Theory edited by Robin N. Fiore and Hilde Lindemann Nelson (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003).

Table of Contents Part I: Recognition
• • Lived Body vs. Gender: Reflections on Social Structures and Subjectivity
Iris Marion Young
• Gender and Work
Diana Tietjens Meyers
• The Role of Recognition in the Formation of Self-understanding
Misha Strauss
• Can There Be a Queer Politics of Recognition?
Cressida J. Heyes
• Anorexia Nervosa and Our Unreasonable Perceptions
Kate Parsons

• Part II: Responsibility
• The Impurities of Epistemic Responsibility: Developing a Practice Oriented Epistemology
Heidi E. Grasswick
• The Sick and the Queer: Memoir and the Uses of Oppositional Subjectivity
Abby Wilkerson
• Integrity and Vulnerability
Cheryl Hughes
• Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: Weighing Feminist Concerns
Norah Martin
• Talking Back to Feminist Postmodernism: Toward a New Radical Feminist Interpretation of the Body
Bonnie Mann

• Part III: Rights
• Truth and Voice in Women's Rights
Margaret Urban Walker
• Globalizing Women's Rights: Building a Public Sphere
Marìa Pìa Lara
• Vulnerable Women and Neo-Liberal Globalization: Debt Burdens Undermine Women's Health in the Global South
Alison M. Jaggar