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.
Research Interests
- Feminist Philosophy and Feminist Theory
- Queer Theory and Gender Studies
- Existentialism
- Critical Theory
- 19th and 20th century Continental Philosophy
Courses
- Phil 350: Topics in Moral Philosophy—The Problem of Evil
- Phil 390: Feminist Philosophy: The Three Waves of Feminism
- Phil 378: Feminist Philosophy: Philosophies of Desire (cross-listed with Women's and Gender Studies)
- Phil 305: Existentialism: Kierkegaard, Sartre, Beauvoir
- Phil 315: Truth: Jurgen Habermas
- Phil 200: Philosophy in Pop Culture
- Phil 120: Introduction to Philosophy

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