This article argues for an aesthetic approach to resisting oppression based on judgments of bodily unattractiveness. Philosophical theories have often suggested that appropriate aesthetic judgments should converge on sets of objects consensually found to be beautiful or ugly. The convergence of judgments about human bodies, however, is a significant source of injustice, because people judged to...

McGowan argues that everyday verbal bigotry makes a key contribution to the harms of discriminatory inequality, via mechanism she calls sneaky norm enactment. Part her account involves showing characteristic conversational interaction facilitates enactment is in fact generic one, which obtains wide range activities, namely, property having conventions appropriateness. I argue will be better-abl...

Social dominance : an intergroup theory of social hierarchy and oppression / Jim Sidanius, Felicia Pratto. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.

In a world where we are constantly bombarded with countless images of Islamic terrorism, violence, and danger, it is not surprising that we have come to associate all aspects of Islamic society with malevolence. This destructive way of thinking has impacted the way we—as Westerners— think about, portray, and perceive Muslim men and women. While Muslim men are often depicted as hostile, cruel, a...

Since Francoise d'Eaubonne first coined the term eco-feminisme in 1974, a growing number of feminists and environmentalists have been concerned with the links between the domination of women and the domination of nature in Western culture. Although the concept of ecofeminism has come to mean quite different things to different ecofeminists, Karen Warren suggests that it is at least based on the...