Shelley Tremain
Biographic Data
| ID | 6533464 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shelley Tremain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shelley |
| FAMILY NAME | Tremain |
| SIGNATURE | TREMAIN S |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2037-2181 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Philosophy of Disability, Conceptual Engineering, and the Nursing Home-Industrial-Complex in Canada
In this article, I indicate how the naturalized and individualized conception of disability that prevails in philosophy informs the indifference of philosophers to the predictable COVID-19 tragedy that has unfolded in nursing homes, supported living centers, psychiatric institutions, and other institutions in which elders and younger disabled people are placed. I maintain that, insofar as feminist and other discourses represent these institutions…
Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability
Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability is a distinctive contribution to growing discussions about how power operates within the academic field of philosophy. By combining the work of Michel Foucault, the insights of philosophy of disability and feminist philosophy, and data derived from empirical research, Shelley L. Tremain compellingly argues that the conception of disability that currently predominates in the discipline of philosophy, …
Foucault and the Government of Disability
Foucault and the Government of Disability considers the continued relevance of Foucault to disability studies, as well as the growing significance of disability studies to understandings of Foucault. A decade ago, this international collection provocatively responded to Foucault's call to question what is regarded as natural, inevitable, ethical, and liberating. The book's contributors draw on Foucault to scrutinize a range of widely endorsed pra…
New Work on Foucault and Disability: An Introductory Note
This Is What a Historicist and Relativist Feminist Philosophy of Disability Looks Like
With this article, I advance a historicist and relativist feminist philosophy of disability. I argue that Foucault’s insights offer the most astute tools with which to engage in this intellectual enterprise. Genealogy, the technique of investigation that Friedrich Nietzsche famously introduced and that Foucault took up and adapted in his own work, demonstrates that Foucault’s historicist approach has greater explanatory power and transgressive po…
Educating Jouy
The feminist charge that Michel Foucault's work in general and his history of sexuality in particular are masculinist, sexist, and reflect male biases vexes feminist philosophers of disability who believe his claims about (for instance) the constitution of subjects, genealogy, governmentality, discipline, and regimes of truths imbue their feminist analyses of disability and ableism with complexity and richness, as well as inspire theoretical soph…
Biopower, Styles of Reasoning, and What's Still Missing from the Stem Cell Debates
Until now, philosophical debate about human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research has largely been limited to its ethical dimensions and implications. Although the importance and urgency of these ethical debates should not be underestimated, the almost undivided attention that mainstream and feminist philosophers have paid to the ethical dimensions of hESC research suggests that the only philosophically interesting questions and concerns about it a…
One of us: Conjoined twins and the future of normal , by Alice Domurat Dreger
Alice Domurat Dreger, One of us: Conjoined twins and the future of normal, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004, reviewed by Shelley Tremain
Foucault and the Government of Disability
Reproductive Freedom, Self-Regulation, and the Government of Impairment in Utero
This article critically examines the constitution of impairment in prenatal testing and screening practices and various discourses that surround these technologies. While technologies to test and screen (for impairment) prenatally are claimed to enhance women's capacity to be self-determining, make informed reproductive choices, and, in effect, wrest control of their bodies from a patriarchal medical establishment, I contend that this emerging re…
Reproductive Freedom, Self-Regulation, and the Government of Impairment in Utero
This article critically examines the constitution of impairment in prenatal testing and screening practices and various discourses that surround these technologies. While technologies to test and screen (for impairment) prenatally are claimed to enhance women's capacity to be self-determining, make informed reproductive choices, and, in effect, wrest control of their bodies from a patriarchal medical establishment, I contend that this emerging re…
Foucault and the Government of Disability
On the Government of Disability
We believe that feelings are immutable, but every sentiment, particularly the noblest and most disinterested, has a history. We believe in tiie dull constancy of instinctual life and imagine that it continues to exert its force indiscriminately in the present as it did in the past ... We believe, in any event, that the body obeys the exclusive laws of physiology and that it escapes the influence of history, but this too is false. —Foucault, Nietz…
The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability. By Susan Wendell. New York: Routledge, 1996
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Dworkin on Disablement and Resources
In “Why Should Liberals Care about Equality?,” Ronald Dworkin distinguishes between two forms of liberalism, one form based on neutrality, and the other one based on equality. As Dworkin explains it, proponents of both forms argue against legal incursion into private morality, and argue in favour of increased sexual, political, racial, and economic equality; however, they disagree about which of these traditionally liberal values is the fundament…
Reproductive Freedom, Self-Regulation, and the Government of Impairment in Utero
This article critically examines the constitution of impairment in prenatal testing and screening practices and various discourses that surround these technologies. While technologies to test and screen (for impairment) prenatally are claimed to enhance women's capacity to be self-determining, make informed reproductive choices, and, in effect, wrest control of their bodies from a patriarchal medical establishment, I contend that this emerging re…
Biopower, Styles of Reasoning, and What's Still Missing from the Stem Cell Debates
Until now, philosophical debate about human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research has largely been limited to its ethical dimensions and implications. Although the importance and urgency of these ethical debates should not be underestimated, the almost undivided attention that mainstream and feminist philosophers have paid to the ethical dimensions of hESC research suggests that the only philosophically interesting questions and concerns about it a…
This Is What a Historicist and Relativist Feminist Philosophy of Disability Looks Like
With this article, I advance a historicist and relativist feminist philosophy of disability. I argue that Foucault’s insights offer the most astute tools with which to engage in this intellectual enterprise. Genealogy, the technique of investigation that Friedrich Nietzsche famously introduced and that Foucault took up and adapted in his own work, demonstrates that Foucault’s historicist approach has greater explanatory power and transgressive po…
Educating Jouy
The feminist charge that Michel Foucault's work in general and his history of sexuality in particular are masculinist, sexist, and reflect male biases vexes feminist philosophers of disability who believe his claims about (for instance) the constitution of subjects, genealogy, governmentality, discipline, and regimes of truths imbue their feminist analyses of disability and ableism with complexity and richness, as well as inspire theoretical soph…
Foucault and the Government of Disability
Reproductive Freedom, Self-Regulation, and the Government of Impairment in Utero
This article critically examines the constitution of impairment in prenatal testing and screening practices and various discourses that surround these technologies. While technologies to test and screen (for impairment) prenatally are claimed to enhance women's capacity to be self-determining, make informed reproductive choices, and, in effect, wrest control of their bodies from a patriarchal medical establishment, I contend that this emerging re…
The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability. By Susan Wendell. New York: Routledge, 1996
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
Dworkin on Disablement and Resources
In “Why Should Liberals Care about Equality?,” Ronald Dworkin distinguishes between two forms of liberalism, one form based on neutrality, and the other one based on equality. As Dworkin explains it, proponents of both forms argue against legal incursion into private morality, and argue in favour of increased sexual, political, racial, and economic equality; however, they disagree about which of these traditionally liberal values is the fundament…
The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability. By Susan Wendell. New York: Routledge, 1996
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
On the Government of Disability
We believe that feelings are immutable, but every sentiment, particularly the noblest and most disinterested, has a history. We believe in tiie dull constancy of instinctual life and imagine that it continues to exert its force indiscriminately in the present as it did in the past ... We believe, in any event, that the body obeys the exclusive laws of physiology and that it escapes the influence of history, but this too is false. —Foucault, Nietz…
Foucault and the Government of Disability
Foucault and the Government of Disability
Reproductive Freedom, Self-Regulation, and the Government of Impairment in Utero
This article critically examines the constitution of impairment in prenatal testing and screening practices and various discourses that surround these technologies. While technologies to test and screen (for impairment) prenatally are claimed to enhance women's capacity to be self-determining, make informed reproductive choices, and, in effect, wrest control of their bodies from a patriarchal medical establishment, I contend that this emerging re…
Reproductive Freedom, Self-Regulation, and the Government of Impairment in Utero
This article critically examines the constitution of impairment in prenatal testing and screening practices and various discourses that surround these technologies. While technologies to test and screen (for impairment) prenatally are claimed to enhance women's capacity to be self-determining, make informed reproductive choices, and, in effect, wrest control of their bodies from a patriarchal medical establishment, I contend that this emerging re…
One of us: Conjoined twins and the future of normal , by Alice Domurat Dreger
Alice Domurat Dreger, One of us: Conjoined twins and the future of normal, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004, reviewed by Shelley Tremain
Biopower, Styles of Reasoning, and What's Still Missing from the Stem Cell Debates
Until now, philosophical debate about human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research has largely been limited to its ethical dimensions and implications. Although the importance and urgency of these ethical debates should not be underestimated, the almost undivided attention that mainstream and feminist philosophers have paid to the ethical dimensions of hESC research suggests that the only philosophically interesting questions and concerns about it a…
Educating Jouy
The feminist charge that Michel Foucault's work in general and his history of sexuality in particular are masculinist, sexist, and reflect male biases vexes feminist philosophers of disability who believe his claims about (for instance) the constitution of subjects, genealogy, governmentality, discipline, and regimes of truths imbue their feminist analyses of disability and ableism with complexity and richness, as well as inspire theoretical soph…
Foucault and the Government of Disability
Foucault and the Government of Disability considers the continued relevance of Foucault to disability studies, as well as the growing significance of disability studies to understandings of Foucault. A decade ago, this international collection provocatively responded to Foucault's call to question what is regarded as natural, inevitable, ethical, and liberating. The book's contributors draw on Foucault to scrutinize a range of widely endorsed pra…
New Work on Foucault and Disability: An Introductory Note
This Is What a Historicist and Relativist Feminist Philosophy of Disability Looks Like
With this article, I advance a historicist and relativist feminist philosophy of disability. I argue that Foucault’s insights offer the most astute tools with which to engage in this intellectual enterprise. Genealogy, the technique of investigation that Friedrich Nietzsche famously introduced and that Foucault took up and adapted in his own work, demonstrates that Foucault’s historicist approach has greater explanatory power and transgressive po…
Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability
Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability is a distinctive contribution to growing discussions about how power operates within the academic field of philosophy. By combining the work of Michel Foucault, the insights of philosophy of disability and feminist philosophy, and data derived from empirical research, Shelley L. Tremain compellingly argues that the conception of disability that currently predominates in the discipline of philosophy, …
Philosophy of Disability, Conceptual Engineering, and the Nursing Home-Industrial-Complex in Canada
In this article, I indicate how the naturalized and individualized conception of disability that prevails in philosophy informs the indifference of philosophers to the predictable COVID-19 tragedy that has unfolded in nursing homes, supported living centers, psychiatric institutions, and other institutions in which elders and younger disabled people are placed. I maintain that, insofar as feminist and other discourses represent these institutions…
Sociology (12 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Foucault, Power, and Ethics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Medicine (5 works)