Intersectional, Feminist, Queer
Catherine Clune-Taylor (she/her) is the first person to be hired at the rank of assistant professor and the first person of color to be appointed in Gender and Sexuality Studies in the history of the program. She is a critical and intersectionally feminist science and technology studies scholar with formal training in philosophy of science, bioethics and the biomedical sciences. Most broadly, her work explores the ways in which science and other systems of knowledge production function together with practices, technologies and institutions to shape the possibilities for living and dying available to individuals as members of marginalized groups. Clune-Taylor is known for her in-depth, critical feminist analysis of the science of sex, gender and sexual difference, as well as of the ethics and biopolitics of all medical efforts which aim to secure a cisgendered future for minors unable to provide informed consent. This includes both the medical management of intersex conditions and the treatment of trans kids with so-called “conversion therapies.” Clune-Taylor’s articles have appeared in Hypatia, Bioethics and the American Journal of Public Health, and she is the author of the chapter “Is Sex Socially Constructed?” in “The Routledge Handbook on Feminist Philosophy of Science.” Her book, “Securing Autonomously Gendered Futures: A Feminist Philosophical Defense of Intersex and Trans Kids,” is currently under review.