Bettcher Bibliography

I compiled this bibliography of Prof. Talia Mae Bettcher’s work (including some spoken word performances that I came across in my research) for a reading group that I organized in 2022. To me, reading Bettcher systematically has been enormously helpful in understanding and appreciating her work, and I wish more trans/feminist philosophers could have the delight (as well as luxury) of doing the same.

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Publications: Berkeley
Publications: Trans Feminism
Autobiography
Interviews
Comments
Various Other Items of Interest

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Publications

Berkeley

“The Spirit and the Heap: Berkeley and Hume on the Self and Self-Consciousness” (PhD dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 1999)
Berkeley’s Philosophy of Spirit: Consciousness, Ontology and the Elusive Subject (New York: Continuum, 2007)
Berkeley: A Guide for the Perplexed (New York: Continuum, 2008)
“Berkeley on Self-Consciousness,” in New Interpretations of Berkeley’s Thought, ed. Stephen H. Daniel (Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2008)
“Berkeley’s Dualistic Ontology,” Análisis Filosófico (2008)
“Berkeley and Hume on Self and Self-consciousness,” in Topics in Early Modern Philosophy of Mind, ed. Jon Miller (n.p.: Springer, 2009)
“Abstraction: Berkeley Against Locke,” in Berkeley’s Lasting Legacy: 300 Years Later, ed. Bertil Belfrage and Timo Airaksinen (Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011)
“Berkeley’s Theory of Mind: Some New Models,” Philosophy Compass (2011)

Trans Feminism

“Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender/Transsexual Individuals” (with Emilia Lombardi), in Social Injustice and Public Health, ed. Barry S. Levy and Victor W. Sidel (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006; 3rd edition, 2019)
“Understanding Transphobia: Authenticity and Sexual Abuse,” in Trans/forming Feminisms: Trans-feminist Voices Speak Out, ed. Krista Scott-Dixon (Toronto: Sumach, 2006)
“Appearance, Reality and Gender Deception: Reflections on Transphobic Violence and the Politics of Pretence,” in Violence, Victims, Justifications: Philosophical Approaches, ed. Felix Ó Murchadha (Bern: Peter Lang, 2006)
“Evil Deceivers and Make-Believers: On Transphobic Violence and the Politics of Illusion,” Hypatia (2007)
“Gender, Identity, Theory, and Action,” in Gender Identity, Equity, and Violence: Multidisciplinary Perspectives through Service Learning, ed. Geraldine B. Stahly (Sterling, VA: Stylus, 2007)
Introduction to the special issue on Transgender Studies and Feminism: Theory, Politics, and Gendered Realities (with Ann Garry), Hypatia (2009)
“Trans Identities and First-Person Authority,” in “You’ve Changed”: Sex Reassignment and Personal Identity, ed. Laurie J. Shrage (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009)
“Feminist Perspectives on Trans Issues,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2009), revised 2014
“Without a Net: Starting Points for Trans Stories,” APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues (2011)
“Full‐Frontal Morality: The Naked Truth about Gender,” Hypatia (2012)
“Trans Women and ‘Interpretive Intimacy’: Some Initial Reflections,” in The Essential Handbook of Women’s Sexuality, ed. Donna Marie Castaneda (Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2013)
“Trans Women and the Meaning of ‘Woman,’” in The Philosophy of Sex: Contemporary Readings, ed. Nicholas Power, Raja Halwani, and Alan Soble, 6th ed. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013)
“When Selves Have Sex: What the Phenomenology of Trans Sexuality Can Teach about Sexual Orientation,” Journal of Homosexuality (2014)
“Trapped in the Wrong Theory: Rethinking Trans Oppression and Resistance,” Signs (2014)
“Transphobia,” TSQ (2014)
“Intersexuality, Transgender, and Transsexuality,” in The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory, ed. Lisa Disch and Mary Hawkesworth (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016)
Introduction to the special issue on Trans/Feminisms (with Susan Stryker), TSQ (2016)
“The Role of the Illusion in the Construction of Erotic Desire: Narratives from Heterosexual Men Who Have Occasional Sex with Transgender Women” (with Cathy J. Reback, Rachel L. Kaplan, and Sherry Larkins), Culture, Health & Sexuality (2016)
“Getting ‘Naked’ in the Colonial/Modern Gender Systems: A Preliminary Trans Feminist Analysis of Pornography,” in Beyond Speech: Pornography and Analytic Feminist Philosophy, ed. Mari Mikkola (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017)
“Trans 101,” in The Philosophy of Sex: Contemporary Readings, 7th ed., ed. Raja Halwani, Alan Soble, Sarah Hoffman, and Jacob M. Held (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017)
“Through the Looking Glass: Trans Theory Meets Feminist Philosophy,” in The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy, ed. Ann Garry, Serene J. Khader, and Alison Stone (New York: Routledge, 2017)
“Trans Feminism: Recent Philosophical Developments,” Philosophy Compass (2017)
“‘When Tables Speak’: On the Existence of Trans Philosophy,” guest post on Daily Nous, May 30, 2018
“What is Trans Philosophy?,” Hypatia (2019)
“Feminist Philosophical Engagements with Trans Studies,” in The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Philosophy, ed. Kim Q. Hall and Ásta (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021)
Trans Philosophy: Meaning and Mattering (edited volume, with Perry Zurn, Andrea Pitts, and P. J. DiPietro), forthcoming

Autobiography

“How I Became a Trans Philosopher,” Journal of World Philosophies (2022)

Interviews

“Other ‘Worldly’ Philosophy,” Featured Philosop-her Series (2015)
“A Conversation with Jeanne Córdova,” TSQ (2016)
“Theorizing Closeness: A Trans Feminist Conversation” (with Pelagia Goulimari), Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (2017)
Interview on What Is It like to Be a Philosopher? (2020)
“Trans Philosophy: The Early Years” (with Loren Cannon, Miqqi Alicia Gilbert, and C. Jacob Hale), APA Newsletter on LGBTQ Issues in Philosophy (2020)

Comments

“Pretenders to the Throne,” Archives of Sexual Behavior (2008)
“Comments on Gayle Salamon’s The Life and Death of Latisha King,” Philosophy Today (2022)

Bettcher Bibliography

Table of Contents

Publications

Berkeley

Trans Feminism

Autobiography

Interviews

Comments

Various Other Items of Interest

Performances

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