Ada Jaarsma

Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Office:  Nichols 324
B.A., University of Waterloo;
M.A., Trent University;
PhD, Purdue University
Phone:  (707) 664-3192
email: ada.jaarsma@sonoma.edu

Selected Publications

“The Ideology of the Normal: Desire, Ethics, and Non-Ideal Theory,” in Feminist Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy: Theorizing the Non-Ideal, ed. Lisa Tessman (Kluwer, forthcoming).

Book Review, The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir, ed. Emily R. Grosholz (Clarendon Press, 2006), APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, 7(2): 2008.

"Irigaray's To Be Two: The Problem of Evil and the Plasticity of
Incarnation," (republication) Feminism and the Problem of Evil, ed. Robin May Schott (Indiana University Press, 2007)

"Word and Flesh: Reading Luce Irigaray," in The Strategic Smorgasbord of Post-Modernity: Literature and the Christian Critic, ed. Deborah Bowen. (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007)

"Irigaray's To Be Two: The Problem of Evil and the Plasticity of
Incarnation," Hypatia special issue "Feminism and the Problem of Evil." 18.1 (2003): 44-63.

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