On Balance, or Why Privacy Is A Red Herring

A shorter, less academic version of this post appears at Cyborgology. This post follows up on my earlier post about a culture of moderation. Here I want to consider one aspect of this contemporary focus on moderation: the idea of…

From the “Exchange of Women” to “Gendered Competition”

This is a collection of rudimentary thoughts from last night’s Feminist Philosophy class. We read Gayle Rubin’s “The Traffic in Women” and Luce Irigaray’s “Women on the Market.” Both of these are decades-old analyses of the “exchange of women”. Rubin…