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Abby L. Wilkerson Faculty Member
Research Areas
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Affiliation
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Publications
selected publications
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abstract
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academic article
- Shame and Trauma Go to Class: Transformative Practices of Disability Justice. Public Philosophy Journal. 2020
- “Should I Tell My Students I Have Depression?”. New York Times. 2016
- Judging, Tasting, Knowing 'Good' Food. Food, Culture and Society. 2016
- Composing Disability: Crip Ecologies. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry. 2016
- “Disability and Depression.” Interview with Ann Cvetkovich.. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry. 2016
- A place at the table. TPM: The Philosophers’ Magazine. 2013
- I Want to Hold Your Hand: Abstinence Curricula, Bioethics, and the Silencing of Desire. Journal of Medical Humanities. 2013
- Food and Disability Studies: Vulnerable Bodies, Eating or ‘Not Eating. Food, Culture Society. 2010
- ’Obesity,’ the Transnational Plate, and the Thin Contract.. Radical Philosophy Review. 2010
- Medical Agency, Political Agency: Transgender Perspectives.. American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Feminism. 2007
- Modern Maternity. Hypatia. 2004
- Introduction to Desiring Disability: Queer Theory Meets Disability Studies. GLQ: A Lesbian and Gay Studies Journal. 2002
- Disability, Sex Radicalism, and the Problem of Political Agency. NWSA Journal. 2002
- Locating Risk, Fostering Empathy: Campus Rape, the Classroom, and Rhetorics of Safety. Transformations. 1999
- Ending at the Skin: Sexuality and Race in Feminist Theorizing.. Hypatia. 1997
- Homophobia and the Moral Authority of Medicine. Journal of Homosexuality. 1994
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book
- Diagnosis: Difference: The Moral Authority of Medicine.. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1998
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chapter
- "They Tried to Make Me Go to Rehab But I Said No, No, No: Single-Serve Packs and the Social Contract". Vernon Press. 2020
- "Her Body Her Own Worst Enemy': The Medicalization of Violence Against Women". Analyzing Violence Against Women. 2019
- “Not Your Father’s Family Farm: Toward Transformative Rhetorics of Food and Agriculture.”. Food, Feminisms, Rhetorics. 2017
- “Conclusion: A Call for Sexual-Political Interdependence”. The SPIT! Manifesto Reader: A Selection of Historical and Contemporary Queer Manifestos. 2017
- “Critical Analysis of Student Ethnography”. Twenty Writing Assignments in Context: An Instructor’s Resource for the Composition Classroom. 2016
- Depression, Phenomenology, and Feminist Disability Studies. Feminist Phenomenology and Medicine. 2014
- Disability, Sex Radicalism, and the Problem of Political Agency. Feminist Disability Studies. 2011
- Normate Sex and Its Discontents. Disability and Sexuality.. 2011
- Refusing Diagnosis: Mother-Daughter Agency in Confronting Psychiatric Rhetoric. Disability and Mothering. 2011
- From the Land of the Fat to the Fat of the Land: The Thin Contract, Food Cultures, and Social Justice.. Whose Weight Is It Anyway? Essays on Ethics and Eating. 2010
- Anti-Psychotics. Encyclopedia of American Disability History. 2009
- Slipping. Gay Shame. 2009
- Bias and Body Size: The Social Contract and the Fat Liberation Movement.. The Atkins Diet and Philosophy. 2005
- Stories of the Sick and the Queer: Memoir and the Possibility of Oppositional Subjectivity.. Recognition, Responsibility, and Rights: Feminist Ethics and Social Theory. 2003
- Her Body Her Own Worst Enemy': The Medicalization of Violence Against Women. Bioethics, Justice, and Health Care. 2001
- Homophobia and the Moral Authority of Medicine.. Health Care and the Law: A Multidisciplinary Reader. 1999
- Pathologization. Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories. 1999
- 'Her Body Her Own Worst Enemy': The Medicalization of Violence Against Women.. Philosophical Perspectives on Violence Against Women.. 1998
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conference paper
- “Subordinating Scripts: The Production of Depression through Rhetorical ‘Transactions,’ and Possibilities for Intervention” 2020
- “Critical Disability Studies Lessons for Food Policy Councils: A Prince George’s County, MD ‘Food Equity’ Case Study 2018
- “Toward a Crip Queer Perspective on Soil and Social Flesh” 2017
- “‘Expressing Rage, Feeling Solidarity, and Believing in the Possibility of Change’: Food Justice, Disability Activism, and Embodied Rhetorics” 2017
- “Soil and Social Flesh: Resilience in a Breaking World, A Crip Queer Feminist Perspective” 2016
- Embodied Rhetorics and Collective Agency: An Analysis of Food and Disability Activism 2016
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review
- “Review of Don’t Call Me Inspirational: A Disabled Feminist Talks Back”. Disability Studies Quarterly 34.1 2014. 2014
- What Her Body Thought: A Journey into the Shadows. Hypatia. 2001
- Family Pictures. Hypatia. 1999
- No Longer Patient. Ethics. 1993
- A Disease of Society. Ethics. 1992
presentations
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presentation
- Lars and the Real Girl, Washington Center for Psychoanalysis Film Series 2010
- Celery sticks and bon vivants: Popular weight loss discourse, neoliberalism, and the Thin Contract, Chesapeake American Studies Association, Georgetown University 2010
- Fat Fictions and the Culture of Consumption: Citizenship in the Era of Obesity, American Studies Association, Washington, DC 2009
- Flexible Bodies, Foodways, and the Thin Contract., International Association for the Study of Philosophy and Literature, Brunel University, London 2009
- Normate Sex and its Discontents: Transgender and Sexually Based Disability., Accessing Alliances: Disability Studies Across the Curriculum, George Washington University 2007
- Fears of a ‘Fat and Sick Nation’: Fatphobia, Nationalism, and the Right., Radical Philosophy Association, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska 2006
- Fit Hero or Fat Freeloader? Fears of a ‘Fat and Sick Nation., Eurobese: Ethical Dimensions of the Image of Overweight and Obesity, Paris 2006
- Medical Agency, Political Agency: Transgender Perspectives., American Philosophical Association, Chicago 2006
- My Culture First’: Racial Identity and the Medicalization of Gender., Society for Disability Studies, San Francisco State University 2005
- Globalizing Psychiatry, Globalizing Domination., Radical Philosophy Association, Howard University 2004
- ’Fat or Fit’: Globalization Anxieties, Terrorism, and ‘Fat Talk., Association for the Study of Food and Society, Culinary Institute of America (Hyde Park, NY) 2004
- QueerCrip Subjectivity and Social Dissent: The Example of Intersexuality., Radical Philosophy Association, Brown University 2002
- Diagnosing the Riot-Grrl., University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics Seminar Series 2000
- Deviant Bodies: Sexuality, Disability, and Oppression, American Studies Association, Montreal 1999
- Her Body Her Own Worst Enemy: The Medicalization of Violence Against Women., Pacific Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP) APA Pacific Division 1997
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Research
principal investigator on
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Teaching
teaching activities
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Service
reviewer of
- Agriculture and Human Values (Journal)
- Bedford-St. Martin’s (Journal)
- Critical Studies in Media Communication (Journal)
- Disability Studies Quarterly (Journal)
- Disability Studies Quarterly (Journal)
- Food and Foodways (Journal)
- Food, Culture and Society (Journal)
- Food, Culture and Society (Journal)
- Food, Culture, and Society (Journal)
- Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies (Journal)
- GLQ: A Lesbian and Gay Studies Journal (Journal)
- Hypatia (Journal)
- Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (Journal)
- NWSA Journal (Journal)
- Signs (Journal)
professional service activities
- Association for the Study of Food and Society Other 2018 -
- Center for Bioethics, Pennsylvania University School of Medicine Other
- Association for the Study of Food and Society Other 2018 - 2021
- Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) Other 2018 - 2021
- Association for the Study of Food and Society National Board Member 2009 - 2015
- College Composition and Communication Member 2003 - 2013
- Feminist Ethics and Social Theory Society Member 2000 - 2013
- Society for Disability Studies Member 1999 - 2013
- American Philosophical Association Member 1995 - 2013
- Radical Philosophy Association Member 1993 - 2013
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Background
education and training
- B.A. degree in Philosophy and English, Texas Tech University
- M.A. degree in English, Texas Tech University
- Ph.D. degree in Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago 1995
awards and honors
- Fellow, conferred by Association for the Study of Food and Society, 2021
- Food, Culture, and Society editorship invitation, conferred by Association for the Study of Food and Society, 2019
- Men and Women as Allies Award, conferred by Men Can Stop Rape, 2015
- Member, GWU Academy of Distinguished Teachers, 2013
- Council of Editors of Learned Journals Special Issue Award, conferred by GLQ, 2003
- Bender Teaching Award, conferred by George Washington University, 1999
- Graduate Student Award, conferred by University of Illinois at Chicago Chancellor's Committee on the Status of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Issues, 1994
- Phi Kappa Phi, conferred by None, 1989
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Contact
full name
- Abby L. Wilkerson
mailing address
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George Washington University, Univ. Writing Program
Mount Vernon College
2100 Foxhall Rd NW
Washington, DC 20007-1150
USA
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