Key Publications
Publications in the Philosophy of Birth
- ** (2021/22) 'La naissance: un angle mort dans la philosophie dominante”, Diogène 2021/3-4 (n° 275-276), p. 82-96. (https://doi.org/10.3917/dio.275.0082.)
- Ballesteros, Virginia. (2022). 'A stigmatizing dilemma in the labor room: irrationality or selfishness?' Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 28, (5), 875-882. (doi: 10.1111/jep.13747)
- ** Villarmea, Stella. (2021) ‘A philosophy of birth: If you want to change the world, change the conversation’, Open Research Europe, 3 June 2021. (https://europepmc.org/article/ppr/ppr355227)
- Villarmea, Stella. (2021) ‘¿Cuándo pierde una mujer el derecho a decidir cuándo parir?’, in Defensoría de la Comunidad Universitaria de la Universidad de León (ed.), Amores y violencias: Género, Diversidad Sexual y Derecho, León: Eolas, pp. 101- 108, ISBN: 978-84-18079-79-5.
- Villarmea, Stella. (2021) ‘Philosophy of birth: Unveiling the stereotype’, The Project Repository Journal (PRj), 8: January, 60-63.
- ** Villarmea, Stella. (2021) ‘Reasoning from the uterus: Casanova, women´s agency, and philosophy of birth’, Hypatia: International Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 36(1), 22-41. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (https://doi.org/10.1017/hyp.2020.45)
- ** Villarmea, Stella. (2020) ‘When a uterus comes in the door, reason goes out the window’, in C. Pickles and J. Herring (eds.), Women’s Birthing Bodies and the Law: Unauthorised Medical Examinations, Power and Vulnerability, Oxford, Hart Publishing.
- ** Villarmea, Stella. (2020) ‘Barriers to establishing shared decision-making in childbirth: Unveiling epistemic stereotypes about women in labour’, coauthored with Brenda Kelly (1/2), Journal of Evaluation of Clinical Practice 26, 515–519. (https://doi.org/10.1111/jep.13375)
- Villarmea, Stella. (2020) ‘Birth as a neuro-psycho-social event: an integrative model of maternal experiences and their relation to neurohormonal events during childbirth’, coauthored with Ibone Olza et al. (7/11), PLoS ONE 15 (7): e0230992. (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230992)
- (2020) ‘Maternal plasma levels of oxytocin during breastfeeding: a systematic review’, coauthored with Kerstin Uvnas-Möberg et al. (13/14), PLoS ONE 15 (8): e0235806. (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235806)
- Villarmea, Stella. (2019) ‘¿Cuándo pierde una mujer el derecho a decidir?’, Tribuna El País, 26th April 2019.
- ** Villarmea, Stella. (2018) ‘Razón y útero: El debate ilustrado y la obstetricia contemporánea’, in J. Borrego and C. Barroso (ed.), Mujer, cerebro y salud, Madrid, Síntesis.
- Villarmea, Stella. (2017) ‘Razón y útero: La sorprendente intervención de G. Casanova en un tópico secular’, in A. Campillo and D. Manzanero (eds.), Las fronteras de la humanidad, Zaragoza, Universidad de Zaragoza.
- Villarmea, Stella. (2017) ‘La culpa de las madres: Promover la lactancia sin presionar a las mujeres’, coauthored with Ibone Olza and M. Dolores Ruiz Berdún (3/3), Dilemata, 25: Mamar: mythos y logos sobre lactancia humana, 217-225.
- ** Villarmea, Stella. (2015) ‘On obstetrical controversies: Refocalization as conceptual innovation’, coauthored with Ibone Olza and Adela Recio, (1/3) in J. Perona (ed.), Normativity and Praxis, Milano, Mimesis.
- ** Villarmea, Stella. (2015) ‘El Parto es Nuestro: El impacto de una asociación de usuarias en la reforma del sistema obstétrico de España’, coauthored with Ibone Olza and Adela Recio (1/3), Dilemata 18; reedited in D. Rodríguez (ed.), Entre la vida y la muerte, México, Plaza Valdés, 2015.
- Villarmea, Stella. (2015) ‘Controversias e innovación conceptual: Filosofía del nacimiento’, in A. Campillo and D. Manzanero (eds.), Retos de la filosofía en el s. XXI, Valencia, PUV.
- Villarmea, Stella. (2015) ‘El papel de las mujeres en la docencia y la investigación de filosofía’, coauthored with Concha Roldán and Esperanza Rodríguez Guillén (2/3), Tehura 8.
- Villarmea, Stella. (2013) ‘Conceptual change and emancipatory practices: Approach from Wittgenstein’s On Certainty’, Annales UMCS 1/2013.
- ** Villarmea, Stella. (2012) ‘Sujetos de pleno derecho: El nacimiento como tema filosófico’, coauthored with Francisca Fernández Guillén (1/2), in E. Pérez (ed.), Cuerpos y diferencias, México, Plaza y Valdés.
- Villarmea, Stella. (2012) ‘Innovación conceptual y activismo’, Revista Ob Stare, 20.
- ** Villarmea, Stella. (2009) ‘Rethinking the origin: Birth and human value’, in J. Yan and D. Schrader (eds.), Creating a Global Dialogue on Value Inquiry, New York, Edwin Mellen.