Ellen K Feder
Biographic Data
| ID | 1250365 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ellen K Feder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ellen K |
| FAMILY NAME | Feder |
| SIGNATURE | FEDER E K |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8014-2804 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 82 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Feminist theory and intersex activism
Intersex-the fact of bodies neither typically male nor female, together with the grim history of its medical management-was a topic forfeminist theorybefore there was such a thing asintersex activism. Indeed, critical academic scholarship about intersex supported theconsciousness raisingthat made an intersex activist movement possible. Activist engagement, in turn, has expanded the understanding of the theorists whose work is responsive to that a…
When Racism Comes in Gray
Derrida and Feminism
Introduction -- Ellen K. Feder, Mary C. Rawlinson, and Emily Zakin 1. Jane Gallop -- Women in Spurs and Nineties Feminism 2. Ellen K. Feder and Emily Zakin -- Flirting with the Truth: Derrida's Discourse with 'Woman' and Wenches 3. Kelly Oliver -- The Maternal Operation: Circumscribing the Alliance 4. Mary C. Rawlinson--Levers, Signatures, and Secrets: Derrida's Use of Woman 5. Tina Chanter -- On Not Reading Derrida's Texts: Mistaking Hermeneutic…
Misrepresentation of Evidence Favoring Early Normalizing Surgery for Atypical Sex Anatomies
Questions concerning the timing of normalizing surgery in cases of atypical genitalia have been contentious ones, with pediatric specialists (and often parents) preferring early surgery, and critics arguing for deferral of decisions. Early surgery is intended to secure children the benefits of “normal appearance” and has been assumed important for a child’s psychosocial development. There is only anecdotal evidence on the question of the timing o…
More Rhetoric Than Argument
One of two commentaries on “Normalizing Atypical Genitalia: How a Heated Debate Went Astray,” by Josephine Johnston, from the November‐December 2012 issue
Bioethics and the disciplines
Katrina Karkazis, Fixing sex: Intersex, medical authority, and lived experience, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2008, reviewed by Ellen K. Feder Elizabeth Reis, Bodies in doubt: An American history of intersex, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009, reviewed by Ellen K. Feder
Tilting the Ethical Lens
Cheryl Chase has argued that “the problem” of intersex is one of “stigma and trauma, not gender,” as those focused on medical management would have it. Despite frequent references to shame in the critical literature, there has been surprisingly little analysis of shame, or of the disgust that provokes it. This paper investigates the function of disgust in the medical management of intersex and seeks to understand the consequences—material and mor…
The Troubled History of Philosophy and Deliberative Democracy
Philosophy has not enjoyed a prominent place in current education movements aimed at strengthening civic engagement and promoting deliberative democracy. This paper provides a brief overview of the history of democracy and philosophy that demonstrates their long but troubled relationship. We argue that the history of Western philosophy provides a much overlooked foundational role in deliberative democracy that must be understood if we are to educ…
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault's work on freedom, subjectivity and power is now central to thinking across an extraordinarily wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, history, psychology, politics, anthropology, sociology and criminology. Michel Foucault: Key Concepts explores Foucault s central ideas, such as disciplinary power, biopower, bodies, spirituality, and practices of the self. Each essay focuses on a specific concept, analyzing its meaning an…
Margaret A. McLaren , Feminism, Foucault, and Embodied Subjectivity (Albany, NY
Imperatives of Normality
In May 2006 the U.S. and European endocrinological societies published a consensus statement announcing a significant change in nomenclature. No longer would nineteenth-century variations on the term hermaphrodite, or the more newly introduced term intersex, be used in a medical context to describe "congenital conditions in which development of chromosomal, gonadal, or anatomical sex is atypical"; instead the preferred term henceforth would be di…
The Dangerous Individual('s) Mother
Even as feminist analyses have contributed in important ways to discussions of how gender is raced and race is gendered, there has been little in the way of comparative analysis of the specific mechanisms that are at work in the production of each. Feder argues that in Michel Foucault's analytics of power we find tools to understand the reproduction of whiteness as a complex interaction of distinctive expressions of power associated with these ca…
The Dangerous Individual('s) Mother
The Discursive Production of the “Dangerous Individual”
Reading Ladelle McWhorter's Bodies and Pleasures
Ladelle McWhorter's Bodies and Pleasures provides an unusual and important reading of Michel Foucault's later work. This response is an effort to introduce McWhorter's project and to describe the challenge it presents to engage in askesis, the transformative exercise of thinking, which McWhorter's work itself exemplifies.
Reading Ladelle McWhorter's Bodies and Pleasures
Ladelle McWhorter's Bodies and Pleasures provides an unusual and important reading of Michel Foucault's later work. This response is an effort to introduce McWhorter's project and to describe the challenge it presents to engage in askesis, the transformative exercise of thinking, which McWhorter's work itself exemplifies
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault's work on freedom, subjectivity and power is now central to thinking across an extraordinarily wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, history, psychology, politics, anthropology, sociology and criminology. Michel Foucault: Key Concepts explores Foucault s central ideas, such as disciplinary power, biopower, bodies, spirituality, and practices of the self. Each essay focuses on a specific concept, analyzing its meaning an…
Imperatives of Normality
In May 2006 the U.S. and European endocrinological societies published a consensus statement announcing a significant change in nomenclature. No longer would nineteenth-century variations on the term hermaphrodite, or the more newly introduced term intersex, be used in a medical context to describe "congenital conditions in which development of chromosomal, gonadal, or anatomical sex is atypical"; instead the preferred term henceforth would be di…
Tilting the Ethical Lens
Cheryl Chase has argued that “the problem” of intersex is one of “stigma and trauma, not gender,” as those focused on medical management would have it. Despite frequent references to shame in the critical literature, there has been surprisingly little analysis of shame, or of the disgust that provokes it. This paper investigates the function of disgust in the medical management of intersex and seeks to understand the consequences—material and mor…
The Dangerous Individual('s) Mother
Even as feminist analyses have contributed in important ways to discussions of how gender is raced and race is gendered, there has been little in the way of comparative analysis of the specific mechanisms that are at work in the production of each. Feder argues that in Michel Foucault's analytics of power we find tools to understand the reproduction of whiteness as a complex interaction of distinctive expressions of power associated with these ca…
Misrepresentation of Evidence Favoring Early Normalizing Surgery for Atypical Sex Anatomies
Questions concerning the timing of normalizing surgery in cases of atypical genitalia have been contentious ones, with pediatric specialists (and often parents) preferring early surgery, and critics arguing for deferral of decisions. Early surgery is intended to secure children the benefits of “normal appearance” and has been assumed important for a child’s psychosocial development. There is only anecdotal evidence on the question of the timing o…
The Dangerous Individual('s) Mother
The Discursive Production of the “Dangerous Individual”
Reading Ladelle McWhorter's Bodies and Pleasures
Ladelle McWhorter's Bodies and Pleasures provides an unusual and important reading of Michel Foucault's later work. This response is an effort to introduce McWhorter's project and to describe the challenge it presents to engage in askesis, the transformative exercise of thinking, which McWhorter's work itself exemplifies.
Reading Ladelle McWhorter's Bodies and Pleasures
Ladelle McWhorter's Bodies and Pleasures provides an unusual and important reading of Michel Foucault's later work. This response is an effort to introduce McWhorter's project and to describe the challenge it presents to engage in askesis, the transformative exercise of thinking, which McWhorter's work itself exemplifies
The Discursive Production of the “Dangerous Individual”
The Dangerous Individual('s) Mother
Even as feminist analyses have contributed in important ways to discussions of how gender is raced and race is gendered, there has been little in the way of comparative analysis of the specific mechanisms that are at work in the production of each. Feder argues that in Michel Foucault's analytics of power we find tools to understand the reproduction of whiteness as a complex interaction of distinctive expressions of power associated with these ca…
The Dangerous Individual('s) Mother
Margaret A. McLaren , Feminism, Foucault, and Embodied Subjectivity (Albany, NY
Imperatives of Normality
In May 2006 the U.S. and European endocrinological societies published a consensus statement announcing a significant change in nomenclature. No longer would nineteenth-century variations on the term hermaphrodite, or the more newly introduced term intersex, be used in a medical context to describe "congenital conditions in which development of chromosomal, gonadal, or anatomical sex is atypical"; instead the preferred term henceforth would be di…
The Troubled History of Philosophy and Deliberative Democracy
Philosophy has not enjoyed a prominent place in current education movements aimed at strengthening civic engagement and promoting deliberative democracy. This paper provides a brief overview of the history of democracy and philosophy that demonstrates their long but troubled relationship. We argue that the history of Western philosophy provides a much overlooked foundational role in deliberative democracy that must be understood if we are to educ…
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault's work on freedom, subjectivity and power is now central to thinking across an extraordinarily wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, history, psychology, politics, anthropology, sociology and criminology. Michel Foucault: Key Concepts explores Foucault s central ideas, such as disciplinary power, biopower, bodies, spirituality, and practices of the self. Each essay focuses on a specific concept, analyzing its meaning an…
Bioethics and the disciplines
Katrina Karkazis, Fixing sex: Intersex, medical authority, and lived experience, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2008, reviewed by Ellen K. Feder Elizabeth Reis, Bodies in doubt: An American history of intersex, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009, reviewed by Ellen K. Feder
Tilting the Ethical Lens
Cheryl Chase has argued that “the problem” of intersex is one of “stigma and trauma, not gender,” as those focused on medical management would have it. Despite frequent references to shame in the critical literature, there has been surprisingly little analysis of shame, or of the disgust that provokes it. This paper investigates the function of disgust in the medical management of intersex and seeks to understand the consequences—material and mor…
More Rhetoric Than Argument
One of two commentaries on “Normalizing Atypical Genitalia: How a Heated Debate Went Astray,” by Josephine Johnston, from the November‐December 2012 issue
Derrida and Feminism
Introduction -- Ellen K. Feder, Mary C. Rawlinson, and Emily Zakin 1. Jane Gallop -- Women in Spurs and Nineties Feminism 2. Ellen K. Feder and Emily Zakin -- Flirting with the Truth: Derrida's Discourse with 'Woman' and Wenches 3. Kelly Oliver -- The Maternal Operation: Circumscribing the Alliance 4. Mary C. Rawlinson--Levers, Signatures, and Secrets: Derrida's Use of Woman 5. Tina Chanter -- On Not Reading Derrida's Texts: Mistaking Hermeneutic…
Misrepresentation of Evidence Favoring Early Normalizing Surgery for Atypical Sex Anatomies
Questions concerning the timing of normalizing surgery in cases of atypical genitalia have been contentious ones, with pediatric specialists (and often parents) preferring early surgery, and critics arguing for deferral of decisions. Early surgery is intended to secure children the benefits of “normal appearance” and has been assumed important for a child’s psychosocial development. There is only anecdotal evidence on the question of the timing o…
When Racism Comes in Gray
Feminist theory and intersex activism
Intersex-the fact of bodies neither typically male nor female, together with the grim history of its medical management-was a topic forfeminist theorybefore there was such a thing asintersex activism. Indeed, critical academic scholarship about intersex supported theconsciousness raisingthat made an intersex activist movement possible. Activist engagement, in turn, has expanded the understanding of the theorists whose work is responsive to that a…
Sociology (14 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Sexual Differentiation and Disorders (6 works) · Foucault, Power, and Ethics (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)