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Caitlyn Jenner: Transitioning in the Limelight

Posted on June 3, 2015 by Ula KleinJune 3, 2015

It’s been an exciting couple of years in the world of LGBT rights and visibility. Gays and lesbians especially have seen radical changes in the ways that their/our lives are legislated and represented. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is gone. Part one of DOMA is gone. The Supreme Court will rule on part two of DOMA in a matter of weeks. Numerous television shows include prominent gay and lesbian characters, and greater awareness of bullying, the “It Gets Better” project, and the public coming out of celebrities, from actress Jodie Foster to football player Michael Sam, have put gays and lesbians in the public eye and conversation.

Transgender persons and transgender rights have received less notice—though it seems that is also changing. Last year, transgender actress Laverne Cox notably graced the cover of TIME magazine next to the headline “The Transgender Tipping Point.” Just this past Monday, June 1, in an arguably much splashier popular media coming out, former Olympian and former male person Bruce Jenner debuted his new female self Caitlyn Jenner on the cover of Vanity Fair. The debut takes place just weeks after Jenner appeared on television in an interview with Diane Sawyer on 20/20, where he (still his preferred pronoun at that time) discussed being transgender and what it has meant for his life.

On a personal level, I am happy to see that Caitlyn can finally be who she has always wished to be. As a trans ally, I am also pleased that trans issues are getting more attention in the media and that trans persons are being publicly accepted and celebrated—even if not by all.

What worries me, as a critic of media culture, especially someone concerned with issues of intersectionality, is how issues of money, race, and class, and beauty and gender, are being ignored or overlooked.

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“Gender Performance: The TransAdvocate Interviews Judith Butler”

Posted on May 29, 2015 by Patrick J. WelshMay 28, 2015

One choice quotation:

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Find the full interview along with a short video clip at The TransAdvocate. Butler clarifies her conception of “gender perfomativity” and addresses other issues and criticisms of her work.

Amy Schumer: Bill Cosby in the Court of Public Opinion

Posted on May 28, 2015 by Patrick J. WelshMay 29, 2015

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Piketty and the Primates of Park Avenue; or, Women and Wealth

Posted on May 26, 2015 by Lynette ReidMay 26, 2015

When I was working on my review essay on Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century (forthcoming in the fall in IJFAB), I was looking around for sources about women’s fate under regimes of extreme inequality—in wealth in particular, given Piketty’s motivating moral critique of societies based on inheritance.

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The Sunday NY Times last weekend had an article touching on the question by Wednesday Martin, cultural critic at large with a PhD in anthropology, who has a book out that might be called a participant observation study, or an auto-ethnography: Primates of Park Avenue. She comments in passing, “the worldwide ethnographic data is clear: The more stratified and hierarchical the society, and the more sex segregated, the lower the status of women.” She describes a world not just of financial dependence, but of financial dependence that includes the “wife bonus” paid sometimes even based on meeting performance measures. She describes a world in which the social segregation men and women is no less powerful than in other settings where we readily identify women as “oppressed”—but where it doesn’t go with modesty-based restrictions on dress (the veils and hair coverings that often accompany gender segregation promoted by religions).

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“Islamic State burned a woman alive for not engaging in an ‘extreme’ sex act, U.N. official says”

Posted on May 23, 2015 by Patrick J. WelshMay 23, 2015

After attacking a village, [the Islamic State] splits women from men and executes boys and men aged 14 and over. The women and mothers are separated; girls are stripped naked, tested for virginity and examined for breast size and prettiness. The youngest, and those considered the prettiest virgins fetch higher prices and are sent to Raqqa, the IS stronghold.

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“Evil” isn’t a word that I throw around casually; this, however, qualifies. Read more at The Washington Post. For those who’ve not yet read it, “What ISIS Really Wants” by The Atlantic‘s Graeme Wood remains the most coherent account that I’ve seen of the group and its apparently self-destructive policies of extreme brutality. Strongly recommended.

Disability, the UK General Election, and what it means for bioethics

Posted on May 21, 2015 by Jackie Leach ScullyMay 20, 2015

It may not have escaped your notice that Britain has just had a general election. The result decides the flavour of the government, probably for the next 5 years. The outcome on 8 May was widely unpredicted: the polls had all said that the ruling Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition would morph into some other form of coalition, unholy or not. Instead the Conservative party walked away with an outright majority, giving Britain its first purely Tory government since 1997.

Quite what this will mean for life in Britain remains to be seen. There’s been no lack of discussion in the media and on the street. Some things are foreseeable, others less so. The government has already swung into action behind a couple of its manifesto promises; these include the holding of a referendum on whether or not Britain should stay part of the European Union, and the promise to pull out of the European Convention on Human Rights. The two issues aren’t unconnected, and if they went through would have immense consequences for Britain, Europe and ultimately the rest of the world.

Perhaps less attention has been given to what the new regime’s plans mean for disabled people. The previous government had form[1] here, and there’s little indication that things are going to improve. Over the last 5 years vicious cuts have been made to the level of social and other support provided to disabled people: support to which disabled people have a right, according to (among other things) international agreements like that pesky European Convention. The cuts have reduced or eliminated altogether access to interventions that enable disabled people and their families to live as independently as others, to work, to get an education, to be active in society; to have, in other words, a halfway decent life. The incoming government now has to make good on its manifesto promise to enact a further £15 billion-worth of cuts to the welfare budget by 2018.

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“Confessions of a Bitter Cripple”

Posted on May 20, 2015 by Patrick J. WelshMay 20, 2015

Some personal reflections on working in the feminist philosophy of disability from Elizabeth Barnes (University of Virginia):

I have sat in philosophy seminars where it was asserted that I should be left to die on a desert island if the choice was between saving me and saving an arbitrary non-disabled person. I have been told it would be wrong for me to have my biological children because of my disability. I have been told that, while it isn’t bad for me to exist, it would’ve been better if my mother could’ve had a non-disabled child instead. I’ve even been told that it would’ve been better, had she known, for my mother to have an abortion and try again in hopes of conceiving a non-disabled child. I have been told that it is obvious that my life is less valuable when compared to the lives of arbitrary non-disabled people. According to Envisional, there are numerous prescription medicines that are causing intimate issues. sildenafil australia Cancer and infections- though rare, cervical, vaginal, ovarian, or Look At This viagra on line uterine cancer could cause some bleeding. Bottom Line Do not merely focus on the beautiful, happy people in the tadalafil pills ED ads displayed on the television. Written estimatesIt is imperative that a patient realize what the chiropractic office’s costs are going to be. ordering cialis from canada And these things weren’t said as the conclusions of careful, extended argument. They were casual assertions. They were the kind of thing you skip over without pause because it’s the uncontroversial part of your talk.

Read the full essay at Philosop-her, a blog run by Meena Krishnamurthy (University of Manitoba) devoted to showcasing the excellent work being done in philosophy by women. It’s new on my radar, but looks to have a lot of great content. Do check it out!

“Nurse Confessions: Don’t Get Sick in July”

Posted on May 15, 2015 by Patrick J. WelshMay 15, 2015

Well, this is just full of horrifying information about the health care system (with a focus on the U.S.). It’s hard to decide what to excerpt, but here are two:

Every year in teaching hospitals at the start of July, medical students become interns, interns become residents and each successive class of residents moves up a level. [….] This upheaval causes what health care workers call “The July Effect” in the United States and “August Killing Season” in the United Kingdom (where the shift happens in August). The changeover harms patient care, increasing medical errors, medication mistakes and the length of hospital stays. In July, U.S. death rates in these hospitals surge between 8 and 34 percent—a total of between 1,500 and 2,750 deaths. UC-San Diego researchers found that fatal medication errors “spike by 10 percent in July and in no other month.” In Britain, August mortality rates rise by 6 to 8 percent as new doctors are tasked with surgeries and procedures that Britons say are “beyond their capabilities.”

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A medical/surgical nurse who has worked in a pediatrician’s office warned that when you call a doctor’s office to speak to a nurse, you might not actually reach one. “Parents call to ask the nurse a medical question about their child. The medical assistants, who are not nurses, pick up the phone saying, ‘Hello, this is the nurse’ and then give advice,” she said.

Find the full story by Alexandra Robbins at Politico Magazine.

Gender and Inequality: Panel at LSE’s day-long engagement with Thomas Piketty

Posted on May 14, 2015 by Lynette ReidMay 14, 2015

I was back in London on Monday for a day-long symposium at the LSE on Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century—this time, with Piketty in attendance. At least, he was there after his late Eurostar train got in from Paris. He missed the economics panel, but was there for the panels “Gender and everyday life” and “Accumulation and Timespaces of Class”—as well as a closing session in which Piketty and Mike Savage discussed Tony Atkinson’s work. Atkinson is one of the “godfathers,” I believe Piketty said, of inequality studies; he has a new book out—Inequality — What can be done?— with a more robust set of policy recommendations than Piketty’s.

I’ll focus on the Gender and Everyday Life panel. Stephanie Seguino raised the question, “how do we distribute the bad news of capitalism in hard times?” Answering this question brings out the relationships between economic inequality, gender inequality, and racial inequality. The first might be getting worse, but the second seems to be getting better; meanwhile, racial inequality in the US is increasingly a phenomenon not of exploitation but of exclusion. Some of women’s advancing equality, however, has come thanks to men’s worsening employment prospects—i.e. some of the fact that the gender gap is (very slowly) narrowing in wages is because of “levelling down”. And it’s possible that capitalism just trades off one inequality for another: when a country is culturally homogenous, gender inequality is higher; when a country is diverse, gender inequality lower. Suggested implication, with bitter irony: if racialized people are available to bear the brunt of “the bad news of capitalism,” women are freed from precarity and can get ahead.

Naila Kabeer followed up on the global dimension, and emphasized a pattern seen over and over again in the data from gender and development studies: it’s not about how racialized or marginalized groups (such as the Dalits in the Indian caste system) do in hard times versus how women do: the real suffering is reserved for people at the intersections—Dalit women, for example. Kabeer emphasized a set of problems of particular interest to feminist bioethics: the choice of establishing social programs as universal or as means-tested, safety-net programs is a substantial choice. While it seems sensible to put money where needs are greatest, a number of problems result. Others have observed that such programs are vulnerable at the ballot box and that they tend to be of lower quality than universal programs. Kabeer focused on they way they re-enact the power relations of society in the relationship between agency and client. Who wants to access services when the organization of those services treats you as in moralizing terms? (Nancy Fraser writes about some similar dynamics in the social state from the perspective of critical theory, in “What’s critical about critical theory?” referencing the work of Carol Brown in “Mothers, Fathers, and Children: From Private to Public Patriarchy.”) Kabeer highlighted the tension between universality in programs, and tailoring programs to need, as one of several crucial challenges in addressing inequality.

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“The Founder Of Mother’s Day Hated What The Holiday Became”

Posted on May 10, 2015 by Patrick J. WelshMay 10, 2015

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Her campaign worked, but not in the way she hoped[.]

The commodification of the filial bond–just capitalism doing its thing. Find more details along with some choice quotes at HuffPost.

Okay to vote Clinton just because she’s a woman?

Posted on May 6, 2015 by Patrick J. WelshMay 6, 2015

Kate Harding of Dame Magazine says “yes”:

There has never been a president who knows what it’s like to menstruate, be pregnant, or give birth. There has never been a president who knows what it’s like to be the target of subtle and categorically unsubtle sexism. There has never been a president who was criticized widely for his political ambition, or forced into a bake-off to prove he’s not too career-oriented to cook for his family. There has never been a president who was forced to take his spouse’s last name for appearances’ sake. Spe viagra best buyts worldwide are recommending viagra to each one of those torment from ED. After you have submitted your prescription via the mail. free sample cialis To conquer these problems, cialis overnight delivery was launched by the US drug company Pfizer. Maybe buy cheap cialis http://www.learningworksca.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/California-counts.pdf you never heard that natural cures and the medical cures. There has never been a president criticized for showing too much cleavage, or having “cankles,” or wearing unflattering headbands or colorful pantsuits. There has never been a president who was presumed to be mentally and emotionally unstable because of naturally occurring hormones.

Find the full article here. As always, debate is encouraged in the comments section (of the blog, that is–you don’t want to look at the comments on the article, trust me). Responsible decision to “vote with your vagina”? (Be forewarned, as was forcefully argued in response to a friend’s Facebook posting, the article is markedly ciscentric.)

“Philosophy’s gender bias: For too long, scholars say, women have been ignored.”

Posted on April 29, 2015 by Patrick J. WelshApril 29, 2015

A nice piece, perhaps most significant for appearing in the Washington Post, as its thesis is hardly news to readers of this blog (though some of the philosophers it mentions were, I confess, unfamiliar to me).

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Their website includes many useful pedagogical resources. Do take a look and avail yourself of them! And, hey, contribute if you can. They look to have a great mission.