Dr. Joan Mason-Grant

Biographical Information: 
Joan Mason-Grant earned her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Western Ontario in 1998. Her research interest is in the epistemic and ethical aspects of the everyday practices through which we are tied, willy nilly, to the power relationships of global politics.  How does our everyday know-how -- our social judgments of and interactions with others, our food habits, our consumer practices, our sexual practices, and so on – make us personally invested in systems of social power that we deplore?  In her  book, Pornography Embodied: From Speech to Sexual Practice (Rowman and Littlefield www.rowmanlittlefield.com), she discusses the relation between mainstream mass-market pornography, routinized sexual practices, and the objectifying, subordinating sexuality that feeds sexual violence and the global sex trades.  She also has growing research interests in the politics of food and water, and in disability.  She has been involved in grass roots sexual politics (through the Middlesex-London Health Unit Teen Sexuality Coalition), disability politics (through the Ontarians with Disabilities Act Committee), and environmental politics (through the Thames Region Ecological Association), to name a few.  She has taught Philosophy at UWO and York, and Women’s Studies at UWO and King’s.  She is thrilled about her involvement in the  Social Justice and Peace Studies program at King’s, and looks forward to participating in a learning community devoted to these values.

Office Location: 
S214 (This is located in the "Mansion" - 2nd floor)

Office Hours:
Tuesday 1-2
Wednesday 11-12
or by appointment

Phone:
433-3491 ext 4434

Website: http://publish.uwo.ca/~jmasongr/

Email: jmasongr@uwo.ca