Susan J Brison
Biographic Data
| ID | 354737 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan J Brison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan J |
| FAMILY NAME | Brison |
| SIGNATURE | BRISON S J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
What’s Consent Got to Do with It
What are we doing when we see rape as nonconsensual sex? What does this prevent us from seeing—and doing? On my account, the harm of rape—to the victim and to others—is not adequately captured by calling it “sex without consent.” If we want, first, to understand how rape harms its direct and its indirect victims and, second, to eradicate rape, or at least change the culture so that rape is less prevalent, the question “Did she consent to his doin…
Valuing the Lives of People with Profound Intellectual Disabilities
Some prominent contemporary ethicists, including Peter Singer and Jeff McMahan, do not consider human beings with profound intellectual disabilities to have the same moral status as “normal” people. They hold that individuals who lack sufficiently sophisticated cognitive abilities have the same moral value as nonhuman animals with similar cognitive capacities, such as pigs or dogs. Their goal—to elevate the moral standing of sentient nonhuman ani…
Gender, Terrorism, and War
Everyday Atrocities and Ordinary Miracles, or Why I (Still) Bear Witness to Sexual Violence (But Not Too Often)
Everyday Atrocities and Ordinary Miracles, or Why I (Still) Bear Witness to Sexual Violence (But Not Too Often) Susan J. Brison (bio) Seventeen years after having been jumped from behind, beaten, raped, strangled into unconsciousness, and left for dead at the bottom of a ravine in a rural area in the south of France, I still-as I just did-occasionally bear witness to the assault. Why do I continue to tell this story? It certainly isn't because I …
Contentious Freedom
In this article, Brison extends the analysis of freedom developed in Nancy J Hirschmann's book, The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom, to an area of controversy among feminist theorists: that of sex work, including prostitution and participation in the production of pornography. This topic raises some of the same issues concerning choice and consent as the three topics Hirschmann discusses in her book—domestic violence, the …
Contentious Freedom
In this article, Brison extends the analysis of freedom developed in Nancy J Hirschmann's book, The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom , to an area of controversy among feminist theorists: that of sex work, including prostitution and participation in the production of pornography. This topic raises some of the same issues concerning choice and consent as the three topics Hirschmann discusses in her book—domestic violence, the…
Beauvoir and feminism
Brison: Yesterday, you agreed that it's not enough for women to put themselves in exactly the same situation as men in order for them to be liberated. But you didn't say what you think we need to do now. I'd like to ask you the same question that you asked Sartre, a question it seemed to me he avoided: “Should women completely reject the masculine universe or should they find themselves a place in it? Should they steal their tools or change them?…
Aftermath
Preface ix CHAPTER ONE: Surviving Sexual Violence 1 CHAPTER TWO: On the Personal as Philosophical 23 CHAPTER THREE: Outliving Oneself 37 CHAPTER FOUR: Acts of Memory 67 CHAPTER FIVE: The Politics of Forgetting 85 CHAPTER SIX: Retellings 101 Afterword 119 Acknowledgments 125 Notes 129 Bibliography 147 Index 157
Gender, Terrorism, and War
Everyday Atrocities and Ordinary Miracles, or Why I (Still) Bear Witness to Sexual Violence (But Not Too Often)
Everyday Atrocities and Ordinary Miracles, or Why I (Still) Bear Witness to Sexual Violence (But Not Too Often) Susan J. Brison (bio) Seventeen years after having been jumped from behind, beaten, raped, strangled into unconsciousness, and left for dead at the bottom of a ravine in a rural area in the south of France, I still-as I just did-occasionally bear witness to the assault. Why do I continue to tell this story? It certainly isn't because I …
Contentious Freedom
In this article, Brison extends the analysis of freedom developed in Nancy J Hirschmann's book, The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom , to an area of controversy among feminist theorists: that of sex work, including prostitution and participation in the production of pornography. This topic raises some of the same issues concerning choice and consent as the three topics Hirschmann discusses in her book—domestic violence, the…
Gender, Terrorism, and War
Aftermath
Preface ix CHAPTER ONE: Surviving Sexual Violence 1 CHAPTER TWO: On the Personal as Philosophical 23 CHAPTER THREE: Outliving Oneself 37 CHAPTER FOUR: Acts of Memory 67 CHAPTER FIVE: The Politics of Forgetting 85 CHAPTER SIX: Retellings 101 Afterword 119 Acknowledgments 125 Notes 129 Bibliography 147 Index 157
Gender, Terrorism, and War
Beauvoir and feminism
Brison: Yesterday, you agreed that it's not enough for women to put themselves in exactly the same situation as men in order for them to be liberated. But you didn't say what you think we need to do now. I'd like to ask you the same question that you asked Sartre, a question it seemed to me he avoided: “Should women completely reject the masculine universe or should they find themselves a place in it? Should they steal their tools or change them?…
Contentious Freedom
In this article, Brison extends the analysis of freedom developed in Nancy J Hirschmann's book, The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom, to an area of controversy among feminist theorists: that of sex work, including prostitution and participation in the production of pornography. This topic raises some of the same issues concerning choice and consent as the three topics Hirschmann discusses in her book—domestic violence, the …
Contentious Freedom
In this article, Brison extends the analysis of freedom developed in Nancy J Hirschmann's book, The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom , to an area of controversy among feminist theorists: that of sex work, including prostitution and participation in the production of pornography. This topic raises some of the same issues concerning choice and consent as the three topics Hirschmann discusses in her book—domestic violence, the…
Everyday Atrocities and Ordinary Miracles, or Why I (Still) Bear Witness to Sexual Violence (But Not Too Often)
Everyday Atrocities and Ordinary Miracles, or Why I (Still) Bear Witness to Sexual Violence (But Not Too Often) Susan J. Brison (bio) Seventeen years after having been jumped from behind, beaten, raped, strangled into unconsciousness, and left for dead at the bottom of a ravine in a rural area in the south of France, I still-as I just did-occasionally bear witness to the assault. Why do I continue to tell this story? It certainly isn't because I …
Gender, Terrorism, and War
What’s Consent Got to Do with It
What are we doing when we see rape as nonconsensual sex? What does this prevent us from seeing—and doing? On my account, the harm of rape—to the victim and to others—is not adequately captured by calling it “sex without consent.” If we want, first, to understand how rape harms its direct and its indirect victims and, second, to eradicate rape, or at least change the culture so that rape is less prevalent, the question “Did she consent to his doin…
Valuing the Lives of People with Profound Intellectual Disabilities
Some prominent contemporary ethicists, including Peter Singer and Jeff McMahan, do not consider human beings with profound intellectual disabilities to have the same moral status as “normal” people. They hold that individuals who lack sufficiently sophisticated cognitive abilities have the same moral value as nonhuman animals with similar cognitive capacities, such as pigs or dogs. Their goal—to elevate the moral standing of sentient nonhuman ani…
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Feminism (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works)