Ellen Feder

Ellen K. Feder is a professor emerita and the William Fraser McDowell Professor of Philosophy at American University in Washington, D.C.. She served on the Intersex Society of North America (ISNA) medical advisory board, and some of her lectures are publicly available on YouTube.

Feder was appointed the William Fraser McDowell Professor of Philosophy in September 1998.^[1] She joined the ISNA in 1999, after presenting a paper at the APA considering the medical management of intersex peoples and bioethics.^[2][3]Feder was a member of the society's Medical Advisory Board until its closure in 2008.

In 2013, Feder, along with other physicians, bioethicics and scholars published an article in the New England Medical Review and Journal agreeing with the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) that informed consent documents used in the Surfactant, Positive Pressure, and Oxygenation Randomized Trial (SUPPORT) were inadequate.^[4]

Feder is a member of the American Philosophical Association (APA), the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), the Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP) and Feminist Ethics and Social Thought (FEAST).^[1]

• Feminist theory and intersex activism: Thinking between and beyond (Philosophy Compass, 2021)
• When Racism Comes in Gray (Philosophy Today, 2020)
• Atypical Bodies in Medical Care (2017)
• Normalising Intersex Voices: Personal Stories from the Pages of NIB (Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics) (2016)
• Sexo, ética y método (2016)
• Advertencia sobre la legislación alemana en materia de asignación de sexo: Respuesta a la decisión de los padres sobre la normalización de la cirugía estética (2015)
• Más allá de las buenas intenciones (2015)
• Tergiversación de la evidencia a favor de la cirugía de normalización temprana para anatomías sexuales atípicas (2015)
• Comprender la intersexualidad: Perspectivas éticas cambiantes en biomedicina (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014)
• El OHRP y SUPPORT: otra perspectiva (2013)
• Poder/Conocimiento, Capítulo en Michael Foucault: Conceptos clave (Routledge, 2011)
• Vínculos familiares: Genealogías de raza y género (Oxford University Press, 2007: ISBN 978-0195314748)
• De monos y hombres (Oxford University Press, 2007)
• Una pasión por la sabiduría: lecturas de filosofía occidental sobre el amor y el deseo (Prentice Hall, 2004), autora (en colaboración con Karmen MacKendrick y Sybol Cook ).
• El sujeto del cuidado: perspectivas feministas sobre la dependencia (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002), editora (Autora: Eva Feder Kittay )
• Un trabajo inadecuado para un filósofo (Filosofía hoy, 1999)
• Derrida y el feminismo: Replantear la cuestión de la mujer (Routledge, 1997), Editora (en colaboración con Mary C Rawlinson y Emily Zakin )

• Conferencia de Ellen Feder: Intersexualidad: Más allá del binarismo. Un evento de Epidapo en UCLA. Vía YouTube.
• https://isna.org/node/93/
• https://centerforthehumanities.org/person/ellen-feder/
• https://independent.academia.edu/EllenFeder
• https://manifold.umn.edu/read/64316c7b-6f7a-445f-8922-47a5f61ee512/section/c45b69e4-5e33-4f62-b22e-6e30c504b063#ch03
• https://www.american.edu/cas/philrel/faculty/
• https://philpapers.org/s/Ellen%20K.%20Feder