Rebecca Whisnant

Rebecca Suzanne Whisnant[1] is professor and chair of the philosophy department at the University of Dayton.[2]

Rebecca S. Whisnant
Born
Rebecca Suzanne Whisnant
Academic background
Alma materUNC-Chapel Hill
ThesisCentering oneself: normative independence and the moral life (2002)
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Dayton
Main interestsEthical theory and feminist social theory
Websitehttps://udayton.edu/directory/artssciences/philosophy/whisnant_rebecca_s.php

Education

Whisnant gained her degree in philosophy from Oberlin College in 1989.[3] She went on to complete a masters (1992), and a Ph.D (2002), both in philosophy, at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[1][4]

Career

Prior to working at the University of Dayton, Whisnant taught at the University of Southern Indiana.[5]

Bibliography

Books
  • Whisnant, Rebecca (1992). An access relations theory of personal identity (M.A. thesis). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. OCLC 29334818.
  • Whisnant, Rebecca (2002). Centering oneself: normative independence and the moral life (Ph.D. thesis). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. OCLC 51249722.
  • Whisnant, Rebecca; Stark, Christine (2004). Not for sale: feminists resisting prostitution and pornography. North Melbourne, Victoria: Spinifex Press. ISBN 9781876756499. Quote from book: "One of the key points we wanted to get across in the book is that pornography is prostitution."
Book review: Newland, Laura (July–August 2005). "Review: Not For Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography". off our backs. off our backs, inc. 35 (7/8): 21. JSTOR 20838416.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Whisnant, Rebecca; DesAutels, Peggy (2008). Global feminist ethics. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9780742559103.

Chapters in books
Part of a series on
Violence against women
Issues
Killing
Sexual assault and rape
International legal framework
Related topics
  • Whisnant, Rebecca (2004), "Woman centered: a feminist ethic of responsibility", in Walker, Margaret Urban; DesAutels, Peggy (eds.), Moral psychology: feminist ethics and social theory, Feminist Constructions, Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, pp. 201–218, ISBN 9780742534803.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Whisnant, Rebecca; Dines, Gail; Thompson, Linda (2010), "Arresting images: anti-pornography slide shows, activism and the academy", in Boyle, Karen (ed.), Everyday pornography, London New York: Routledge, pp. 17–33, ISBN 9780415543781.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) (With Karen Boyle.)
  • Whisnant, Rebecca (2010), "From Jekyll to Hyde: the grooming of male pornography consumers", in Boyle, Karen (ed.), Everyday pornography, London New York: Routledge, pp. 114–133, ISBN 9780415543781.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Whisnant, Rebecca (2015), "Not your father's Playboy, not your mother's feminist movement: feminism in porn", in Kiraly, Miranda; Tyler, Meagan (eds.), Freedom fallacy: the limits of liberal feminism, Ballarat, Victoria: Connor Court Publishing, ISBN 9781925138542.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Whisnant, Rebecca (2015), "Building feminism, resisting porn culture: where to from here?", in Kiraly, Miranda; Tyler, Meagan (eds.), Freedom fallacy: the limits of liberal feminism, Ballarat, Victoria: Connor Court Publishing, ISBN 9781925138542.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Journal articles

Book review

  • Whisnant, Rebecca (August 2007). "Book review: Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered: New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work, and Human Rights by Kamala Kempadoo, Jyoti Sanghera, Bandana Pattanaik". Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. Wiley via JSTOR. 22 (3): 194–222. doi:10.1111/j.1527-2001.2007.tb01097.x. JSTOR 4640092.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Book details: Kempadoo, Kamala (2005). Trafficking and prostitution reconsidered: new perspectives on migration, sex work, and human rights. Boulder, Colorado: Paradigm Publishers. ISBN 9781594510977.
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gollark: No, they're defined as people who follow Catholicism. Mostly you would call them Catholic because of having Catholic-ish beliefs.
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gollark: This has diverged very much from me saying that memes which spread well don't necessarily have to benefit the people spreading them.
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See also

References
  1. Whisnant, Rebecca (2002). Centering oneself: normative independence and the moral life (Ph.D. thesis). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. OCLC 51249722.
  2. Whisnant, Rebecca (2020). "Rebecca S Whisnant". University of Dayton Directory.
  3. "Rebecca Whisnant, PhD". ProCon.org. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  4. Whisnant, Rebecca (1992). An access relations theory of personal identity (M.A. thesis). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. OCLC 29334818.
  5. "Rebecca S. Whisnant". University of Dayton. Retrieved 25 October 2015.


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