Recent work

A paper on Feminism without ‘gender identity’, out in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. It should have been called “What does it mean to have a gender identity?”. It provides an account of misgendering, which I also explain, more head on, in a recent blog post. I build on it to argue that we can best make sense of feminism (both as an intellectual and as a political project) without relying on any understanding of “woman”, and, indeed, without direct reference to “woman”: snapshot in this post on Feminism without “woman”? at Justice Everywhere.

A book chapter on The Role of Solitude in the Politics of Sociability. It explores how the abilities to endure, even enjoy, solitude have an important place in the ethics of sociability. In Being Social: The Philosophy of Social Human Rights.

­­­­­­­­­­­­Political Liberalism and the Dismantling of the Gendered Division of Labor, out in Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, on the tricky question of how feminist can political liberals be.

A chapter on “Let them be children”? Age limits in voting and conceptions of childhood, just out in Aging without Ageism? Conceptual Puzzles and Policy Proposals. The title is fairly self-explanatory.

A (short) article in which I think about what it takes to avoid domination in the formation of children’s values and, more specifically, I grapple with the question of children’s religious education. A reply to John Tillson‘s book in the Journal of Philosophy of Education.

A chapter on Republican Families? in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Republicanism. It says that the gendered division of labour can lead to mutual domination of one parent by the other.

And a book on Debating Surrogacy, co-written with Christine Straehle, for the “Debating ethics” series at Oxford University Press. Pre-print of my main chapter available at philpapers.