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Social and Political Philosophy; Ethics; Philosophy of Sex, Gender and Feminism

Coercion and power; philosophy of sex, gender and feminism; ethics – especially related to interpersonal issues of power, social norms, and Aristotelian approaches to ethics; moral psychology; privacy; political philosophy. I work on issues at the intersection of ethics and social and political philosophy, largely focused on how to use and regulate power, coercion, and social norms. A significant number of my publications investigate these issues in the area of gender relations, as they occur in prostitution, dating and mating, sexual harassment, and rape. I also have ongoing interests in action theory and moral psychology, privacy, and problems related to the intensification of technology and information.

• Confronting Torture: Essays on the Ethics, Legality, History, and Psychology of Torture Today, 2018 (co-editor, with Martha C. Nussbaum; University of Chicago Press)
• “Torture as Unjust Means of War: To Squelch the Sirens’ Singing”, in Anderson and Nussbaum, eds., Confronting Torture, 2018
• “Conceptualizing Rape as Coerced Sex”, Ethics, 2016
• “Coercion as Enforcement and the Social Organisation of Power Relations: Coercion in Specific Contexts of Social Power”, Jurisprudence, 2016
• “Objectification: A 21st Century Reassessment”, in Thom Brooks, ed., Current Controversies in Political Philosophy, 2015
• “On Sexual Obligations and Sexual Autonomy”, Hypatia, 2013
• “On the Immorality of Threatening”, Ratio, 2011
• “The Enforcement Approach to Coercion”, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, 2010
• “Privacy without the Right to Privacy”, The Monist, January 2008
• “Sex under Pressure: Jerks, Boorish Behavior, and Gender Hierarchy”, Res Publica , 2005
• “Prostitution and Sexual Autonomy: Making Sense of the Prohibition of Prostitution”, Ethics, 2002

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