Clara Fischer

books

Gendered Readings of Change: A Feminist-Pragmatist Approach, Palgrave MacMillan, New York, 2014 (monograph). Read the Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy review here.

Irish Feminisms: Past, Present and Future, Fischer and McAuliffe (eds.), Arlen House/Syracuse University Press, Dublin, 2015 (co-edited volume). Read the Irish Times review here.

New Feminist Perspectives on Embodiment, Fischer and Dolezal (eds.), Palgrave MacMillan, New York, 2018 (co-edited volume). Read the Feminism and Psychology review here.

Philosophical Perspectives on Contemporary Ireland, Fischer and Mahon (eds.), Routledge, London & New York, 2020 (co-edited volume). 

Journal special issues

Journal articles

Feminists Redrawing Public and Private Spheres: Abortion, Vulnerability, and the Affective Campaign to Repeal the Eighth Amendment, Signs, Vol. 45, No. 4, 2020, pp. 985-1010.

Abortion and Reproduction in Ireland: Shame, Nation-Building, and the Affective Politics of Place, Feminist Review, Vol. 122, No. 2, 2019, pp. 32-48.

John Dewey and Critical Philosophies for Critical Political Times, Fischer & Morris, Contemporary Pragmatism, Vol. 16, Nos. 2-3, 2019, pp. 141-146.

Gender and the Politics of Shame: A Twenty-First-Century Feminist Shame Theory, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy special issue, Vol. 33, No. 3, 2018, pp. 371-383. Read the full paper here: https://rdcu.be/7hS7

Revealing Ireland's 'Proper' Heart: Apology, Shame, Nation, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Vol. 32, No. 4, 2017, pp. 751-767.

Feminist Philosophy, Pragmatism, and the "Turn to Affect": A Genealogical Critique, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Vol. 31, No. 4, 2016, pp. 810-826.

Gender, Nation, and the Politics of Shame: Magdalen Laundries and the Institutionalisation of Feminine Transgression in Modern Ireland, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Vol. 41, No. 4, Summer 2016, pp. 821-843.

Conceptualising Generational Dynamics in Feminist Movements: Political Generations, Waves, and Affective Economies, Sociology Compass, Vol. 8, No. 3, 2014, pp. 282-293 (co-authored, Cullen and Fischer). 

Moral Musings on Gender, Philosophy, and the Academic Precariat, American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, Vol. 12, No. 2, Spring 2013.

Pragmatists, Deliberativists, and Philosophy: The Quest for Inclusion, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 26, No. 3, 2012, pp. 497-515.

Intersectional Mainstreaming and Sightsavers' Lady Healthworkers Programme in Pakistan, Gender and Development, Vol. 20, No. 3, 2012, pp. 563-572. 

Revisioning Ireland: Lessons from Feminist Care Ethics, Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, Vol. 100, No. 397, Spring 2011, pp. 63-72.

Compulsory Voting and Inclusion: A Response to Saunders, POLITICS, Vol. 31, No. 1, 2011, pp. 37-41.

Consciousness and Conscience: Feminism, Pragmatism, and the Potential for Radical Change, Studies in Social Justice, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2010, pp. 67-85.  

book chapters

Crossing Ireland’s Boundaries, Real and Imagined (co-authored with Áine Mahon), Philosophical Perspectives on Contemporary Ireland, eds. Fischer & Mahon, Routledge, London and New York, 2020

Revisiting Feminist Matters in the Post-Linguistic Turn: John Dewey, New Materialisms, and Contemporary Feminist Thought, New Feminist Perspectives on Embodiment, Fischer and Dolezal (eds.), Palgrave MacMillan, 2018, pp. 83-102.

Contested Terrains: New Feminist Perspectives on Embodiment, New Feminist Perspectives on Embodiment, Fischer and Dolezal (eds.), Palgrave MacMillan, 2018, pp. 1-13.

"You Memory That?" Theorising Feminism in Ireland through Feminist Storytelling and Rememory, Irish Feminisms: Past, Present and Future, Fischer and McAuliffe (eds.), Arlen House/Syracuse University Press, Dublin, 2015, pp. 249-275.

Irish Feminisms: An Introduction, Irish Feminisms: Past, Present and Future, Fischer and McAuliffe (eds.), Arlen House/Syracuse University Press, Dublin, 2015, pp. 19-23. 

Interview with a Born-Again Feminist: Mamo McDonald, Irish Feminisms: Past, Present and Future, Fischer and McAuliffe (eds.), Arlen House/Syracuse University Press, Dublin, 2015, pp. 103-121. 

select encyclopaedia entries and reviews

Review of Shame: A Genealogy of Queer Practices in the 19th Century (Bogdan Popa), Contemporary Political Theory, doi.org/10.1057/s41296-018-0192-9 , 2018.

Review of Feminist Interpretations of William James (Tarver and Sullivan eds.), Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Vol. 52, No. 2, 2016, pp. 309-312.

Review of The Body and Shame (Luna Dolezal), APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2015, pp. 18-19.

Review of Gender and Global Justice (Alison Jaggar), LSE Review of Books, 11th April 2014.

Judith Shklar, Dictionnaire des Créatrices, Fouque Publishing, 2013.

The National Women's Council of Ireland, Encyclopaedia of Women in Today's World, Zeiss Stange et al (eds.), SAGE, 2013.

Feminist-Pragmatism, Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, 19th June 2012.

Review of Feminist Interpretations of Jane Addams (Maurice Hamington), The Pluralist, Vol. 6, No. 2, Summer 2011, pp. 96-100.

select Policy documents

Shadow Report in Advance of Ireland’s Combined Sixth and Seventh Periodic Reports Under UN CEDAW, Equality Budgeting Campaign, January 2017 (co-authored, Fischer and Bayliss). 

Submission to Inform the National Women’s Strategy 2017-2020, Equality Budgeting Campaign, January 2017.

Submission to the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission on Ireland’s Combined Sixth and Seventh Periodic Reviews on CEDAW, Equality Budgeting Campaign, September 2016.  

Incorporating Equality Budgeting into Ireland's New Budgetary Process, joint submission with Stephen Donnelly, T.D., to Finance ministers Noonan and Howlin, October 2013.

Equality Budgeting in Ireland: An Information Booklet, Irish Feminist Network and Equality Authority of Ireland, Dublin, November 2012.

Irish Feminist Network: Strategic Plan 2011 - 2013, Dublin, September 2011.