Menaka Philips
Biographic Data
| ID | 609306 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Menaka Philips |
| GIVEN NAMES | Menaka |
| FAMILY NAME | Philips |
| SIGNATURE | PHILIPS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tulane University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5097-0185 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Violence in the American Imaginary
What does the superhero-an icon of the American imaginary-communicate about the politics of violence? Responding to nationwide protests of police brutality in 2020, law enforcement officers adopted the skull logo of The Punisher, an exceptionally violent fictional vigilante. That adoption signals what I call theprivilege of violence: the force individuals may deploy based on normative expectations concerning gender and race. Comparing Marvel-Netf…
Wives of Western Philosophy
The masked demos
Feminist Preoccupations
My aim in this article is both to identify and move beyond what I argue is a dominant interpretive practice in feminist debates on gender and culture: centering liberalism as a condition of and for feminist interventions. This preoccupation with liberalism constitutes a method of inquiry in and of itself, functioning as a starting point for scholarly work: liberalism has become a textual anchor in the gender/culture debate. Where scholars rely on…
Troubling appropriations
Described as the ‘exemplary liberal’, John Stuart Mill is employed to support a dizzying array of different, even competing visions of liberalism. That he has been so widely appropriated is certainly a result of the plural perspectives and tensions embedded in Mill’s political writings. Yet, while Mill scholars have generally been attuned to these tensions, contemporary critics of liberalism have been less careful in their uses of his work. Mill …
The “Beloved and Deplored” Memory of Harriet Taylor Mill
In his Autobiography , John Stuart Mill tells us that though his conviction regarding the equality of the sexes was a result of his earliest engagements with political subjects, it remained an abstract idea before his relationship with Harriet Taylor (later Taylor Mill) began. Crediting her as the author of “all that was best” in his writings, Mill's praise of his wife has not been well received by many of his readers, and scholars have long ques…
Gender and the “Great Man”
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Violence in the American Imaginary
What does the superhero-an icon of the American imaginary-communicate about the politics of violence? Responding to nationwide protests of police brutality in 2020, law enforcement officers adopted the skull logo of The Punisher, an exceptionally violent fictional vigilante. That adoption signals what I call theprivilege of violence: the force individuals may deploy based on normative expectations concerning gender and race. Comparing Marvel-Netf…
The “Beloved and Deplored” Memory of Harriet Taylor Mill
In his Autobiography , John Stuart Mill tells us that though his conviction regarding the equality of the sexes was a result of his earliest engagements with political subjects, it remained an abstract idea before his relationship with Harriet Taylor (later Taylor Mill) began. Crediting her as the author of “all that was best” in his writings, Mill's praise of his wife has not been well received by many of his readers, and scholars have long ques…
Gender and the “Great Man”
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The masked demos
Troubling appropriations
Described as the ‘exemplary liberal’, John Stuart Mill is employed to support a dizzying array of different, even competing visions of liberalism. That he has been so widely appropriated is certainly a result of the plural perspectives and tensions embedded in Mill’s political writings. Yet, while Mill scholars have generally been attuned to these tensions, contemporary critics of liberalism have been less careful in their uses of his work. Mill …
The “Beloved and Deplored” Memory of Harriet Taylor Mill
In his Autobiography , John Stuart Mill tells us that though his conviction regarding the equality of the sexes was a result of his earliest engagements with political subjects, it remained an abstract idea before his relationship with Harriet Taylor (later Taylor Mill) began. Crediting her as the author of “all that was best” in his writings, Mill's praise of his wife has not been well received by many of his readers, and scholars have long ques…
Gender and the “Great Man”
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Feminist Preoccupations
My aim in this article is both to identify and move beyond what I argue is a dominant interpretive practice in feminist debates on gender and culture: centering liberalism as a condition of and for feminist interventions. This preoccupation with liberalism constitutes a method of inquiry in and of itself, functioning as a starting point for scholarly work: liberalism has become a textual anchor in the gender/culture debate. Where scholars rely on…
Troubling appropriations
Described as the ‘exemplary liberal’, John Stuart Mill is employed to support a dizzying array of different, even competing visions of liberalism. That he has been so widely appropriated is certainly a result of the plural perspectives and tensions embedded in Mill’s political writings. Yet, while Mill scholars have generally been attuned to these tensions, contemporary critics of liberalism have been less careful in their uses of his work. Mill …
Wives of Western Philosophy
The masked demos
Violence in the American Imaginary
What does the superhero-an icon of the American imaginary-communicate about the politics of violence? Responding to nationwide protests of police brutality in 2020, law enforcement officers adopted the skull logo of The Punisher, an exceptionally violent fictional vigilante. That adoption signals what I call theprivilege of violence: the force individuals may deploy based on normative expectations concerning gender and race. Comparing Marvel-Netf…
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