Jennifer A Parks
Biographic Data
| ID | 6533309 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer A Parks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer A |
| FAMILY NAME | Parks |
| SIGNATURE | PARKS J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3673-8264 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Supervaluation of pregnant women is reductive of women
Heloise Robinson argues that by certain threshold criteria pregnant women qualify for a higher moral status by reason of their pregnancies. While her intention is to make this a status upgrade for women we worry that it may result in a status downgrade for women as a class, by presupposing and reinforcing women’s value in relation to their reproductive labor. Historically central to feminist analysis is resistance to reductive accounts of women i…
Lonely Deaths
McLeod’s Conscience in Reproductive Health Care and Its Relationship to Reproductive Freedom and Faith-Based Healthcare
IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics - Volume 15, Number 2, October 2022
Dying well in nursing homes during Covid‐19 and beyond
This paper applies a relational and familial ethic to address concerns relating to nursing home deaths and advance care planning during Covid‐19 and beyond. The deaths of our elderly in nursing homes during this pandemic have been made more complicated by the restriction of visitors even at the end of life, a time when families would normally be present. While we must be vigilant about preventing unnecessary deaths caused by coronavirus outbreaks…
Gestation as mothering
Some commentators maintain that gestational surrogates are not ‘mothers’ in a way capable of grounding a claim to motherhood. These commentators find that the practices that constitute motherhood do not extend to gestational surrogates. We argue that gestational surrogates should be construed as mothers of the children they bear, even if they fully intend to surrender those children at birth to the care of others. These women stand in a certain r…
Feminist issues in domestic and transnational surrogacy
I consider how a feminist account might address the practice of surrogacy in Japan, both domestically and in the transnational context. Japanese culture emphasizes traditional values, family heritage, and the value of reproduction. Japan offers an interesting case study, since surrogacy is currently under review, and the government is in the process of determining its stance on the practice. I will advocate for legal changes to how surrogacy is t…
Lifting the Burden of Women's Care Work
This paper treats the political and ethical issues associated with the new caretaking technologies. Given the number of feminists who have raised serious concerns about the future of care work in the United States, and who have been critical of the degree to which society “free rides” on women's caretaking labor, I consider whether technology may provide a solution to this problem. Certainly, if we can create machines and robots to take on partic…
No Place Like Home
IntroductionWhy Home Care? The Genesis of Home or Community-based CareExamining Philosophies of Home CareWomen's Care Work as a Subsidy to the StateCaring about the Cared-ForThe Personal is Political: Negotiating Relationships Within the Home Care SettingLooking Ahead Can Home Care be ReformedNotes Bibliography Index
Why Gender Matters to the Euthanasia Debate
Are women's requests for aid in dying honored more often than men's,\nor less? Feminist arguments can support conclusions either that gendered\nperceptions of women as self-sacrificing predispose physicians to accede to\nwomen's requests to die -- or that cultural understandings of women as not\nfully rational agents lead physicians to reject their requests as\nirrational
Gender and Euthanasia
On the Use of IVF by Post-menopausal Women
Nonfeminist accounts of post-menopausal IVF reject the practice on four main grounds: I) scarcity of resources; 2) fairness; 3) the “inappropriateness” of post-menopausal motherhood; and 4) concerns for orphaned children. I argue that these grounds are insufficient for denying post-menopausal women IVF access. I then suggest that a feminist evaluation of the practice is more compelling; ultimately, however, we have no strong grounds for a policy …
On the Use of Ivf by Post-menopausal Women
Nonfeminist accounts of post-menopausal IVF reject the practice on four main grounds: I) scarcity of resources; 2) fairness; 3) the “inappropriateness” of post-menopausal motherhood; and 4) concerns for orphaned children. I argue that these grounds are insufficient for denying post-menopausal women IVF access. I then suggest that a feminist evaluation of the practice is more compelling; ultimately, however, we have no strong grounds for a policy …
A Contextualized Approach to Patient Autonomy Within the Therapeutic Relationship
Lifting the Burden of Women's Care Work
This paper treats the political and ethical issues associated with the new caretaking technologies. Given the number of feminists who have raised serious concerns about the future of care work in the United States, and who have been critical of the degree to which society “free rides” on women's caretaking labor, I consider whether technology may provide a solution to this problem. Certainly, if we can create machines and robots to take on partic…
A Contextualized Approach to Patient Autonomy Within the Therapeutic Relationship
On the Use of IVF by Post-menopausal Women
Nonfeminist accounts of post-menopausal IVF reject the practice on four main grounds: I) scarcity of resources; 2) fairness; 3) the “inappropriateness” of post-menopausal motherhood; and 4) concerns for orphaned children. I argue that these grounds are insufficient for denying post-menopausal women IVF access. I then suggest that a feminist evaluation of the practice is more compelling; ultimately, however, we have no strong grounds for a policy …
On the Use of Ivf by Post-menopausal Women
Nonfeminist accounts of post-menopausal IVF reject the practice on four main grounds: I) scarcity of resources; 2) fairness; 3) the “inappropriateness” of post-menopausal motherhood; and 4) concerns for orphaned children. I argue that these grounds are insufficient for denying post-menopausal women IVF access. I then suggest that a feminist evaluation of the practice is more compelling; ultimately, however, we have no strong grounds for a policy …
Why Gender Matters to the Euthanasia Debate
Are women's requests for aid in dying honored more often than men's,\nor less? Feminist arguments can support conclusions either that gendered\nperceptions of women as self-sacrificing predispose physicians to accede to\nwomen's requests to die -- or that cultural understandings of women as not\nfully rational agents lead physicians to reject their requests as\nirrational
Gender and Euthanasia
No Place Like Home
IntroductionWhy Home Care? The Genesis of Home or Community-based CareExamining Philosophies of Home CareWomen's Care Work as a Subsidy to the StateCaring about the Cared-ForThe Personal is Political: Negotiating Relationships Within the Home Care SettingLooking Ahead Can Home Care be ReformedNotes Bibliography Index
Lifting the Burden of Women's Care Work
This paper treats the political and ethical issues associated with the new caretaking technologies. Given the number of feminists who have raised serious concerns about the future of care work in the United States, and who have been critical of the degree to which society “free rides” on women's caretaking labor, I consider whether technology may provide a solution to this problem. Certainly, if we can create machines and robots to take on partic…
Feminist issues in domestic and transnational surrogacy
I consider how a feminist account might address the practice of surrogacy in Japan, both domestically and in the transnational context. Japanese culture emphasizes traditional values, family heritage, and the value of reproduction. Japan offers an interesting case study, since surrogacy is currently under review, and the government is in the process of determining its stance on the practice. I will advocate for legal changes to how surrogacy is t…
Gestation as mothering
Some commentators maintain that gestational surrogates are not ‘mothers’ in a way capable of grounding a claim to motherhood. These commentators find that the practices that constitute motherhood do not extend to gestational surrogates. We argue that gestational surrogates should be construed as mothers of the children they bear, even if they fully intend to surrender those children at birth to the care of others. These women stand in a certain r…
Dying well in nursing homes during Covid‐19 and beyond
This paper applies a relational and familial ethic to address concerns relating to nursing home deaths and advance care planning during Covid‐19 and beyond. The deaths of our elderly in nursing homes during this pandemic have been made more complicated by the restriction of visitors even at the end of life, a time when families would normally be present. While we must be vigilant about preventing unnecessary deaths caused by coronavirus outbreaks…
Lonely Deaths
McLeod’s Conscience in Reproductive Health Care and Its Relationship to Reproductive Freedom and Faith-Based Healthcare
IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics - Volume 15, Number 2, October 2022
Supervaluation of pregnant women is reductive of women
Heloise Robinson argues that by certain threshold criteria pregnant women qualify for a higher moral status by reason of their pregnancies. While her intention is to make this a status upgrade for women we worry that it may result in a status downgrade for women as a class, by presupposing and reinforcing women’s value in relation to their reproductive labor. Historically central to feminist analysis is resistance to reductive accounts of women i…
Psychology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Reproductive Health and Technologies (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (4 works) · Nursing (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works)