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Ontic Injustice (2020)
Journal Article
Jenkins, K. (2020). Ontic Injustice. Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 6(2), 188-205. https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2019.27

In this paper, I identify a distinctive form of injustice – ‘ontic injustice – in which an individual is wronged by the very fact of being socially constructed as a member of a certain social kind. To be a member of a certain social kind is, at least... Read More about Ontic Injustice.

What women are for: pornography and social ontology (2017)
Book Chapter
Jenkins, K. (2017). What women are for: pornography and social ontology. Beyond speech: pornography and analytic feminist philosophyOxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190257910.003.0005

This chapter uses John Searle’s account of institutional reality to offer an interpretation of two of Catharine MacKinnon’s claims about pornography. The first is that it subordinates women; the second is that it wrongly constructs women’s natures. T... Read More about What women are for: pornography and social ontology.

Amelioration and inclusion: gender identity and the concept of woman (2016)
Journal Article
Jenkins, K. (2016). Amelioration and inclusion: gender identity and the concept of woman. Ethics, 126(2), 394-421. doi:10.1086/683535

Feminist analyses of gender concepts must avoid the inclusion problem, the fault of marginalizing or excluding some prima facie women. Sally Haslanger’s ‘ameliorative’ analysis of gender concepts seeks to do so by defining woman by reference to subor... Read More about Amelioration and inclusion: gender identity and the concept of woman.