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(March 2017) Alison Assiter FRSA, AcSS Born (1949-10-23) 23 October 1949 (age 71) Academic background Alma mater Bristol University Somerville College, Oxford University of Sussex Thesis The limits of Althusserianism (1984) Academic work Institutions University of the West of England Main interests Feminist philosophy, feminist theory, Political philosophy Notable works Kierkegaard, Eve and Metaphors of Birth Website http://www.alisonassiter.com/ Part of a series on Feminism History Social Feminist history History of feminism Women-only space Women's history American British Canadian German Timelines Women's suffrage Muslim countries US Other women's rights Suffrage by country Australia Canada Japan Kuwait Liechtenstein New Zealand Spain (Civil War) Spain (Francoist) Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom Cayman Islands Wales United States In states Utah Waves First Second Third Fourth General variants Analytical Anarchist Anti-abortion Atheist Conservative Cultural Cyber Difference 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rhetoricians Jewish feminists Muslim feminists Feminist parties Suffragists and suffragettes Women's rights activists Women's studies journals Women's suffrage organizations Categories Women's rights by country Feminists by nationality  Feminism portal v t e Part of a series on Feminist philosophy Major works A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) The Subjection of Women (1869) The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884) The Second Sex (1949) The Feminine Mystique (1963) Sexual Politics (1969) The Dialectic of Sex (1970) Speculum of the Other Woman (1974) This Sex Which is Not One (1977) Gyn/Ecology (1978) Throwing Like a Girl (1980) In a Different Voice (1982) The Politics of Reality (1983) Women, Race, and Class (1983) Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984) The Creation of Patriarchy (1986) Toward a Feminist Theory of the State (1989) Gender Trouble (1990) Black Feminist Thought (1990) Feminism and the Mastery of Nature (1993) Whipping Girl (2007) The Promise of Happiness (2010) Major thinkers Bartky Baier de Beauvoir Bebel Boggs Butler Cixous Cleyre De la Cruz Collins Daly Davis Démar Federici Firestone Fourier Friedan Frye Gamond Goldman Haslanger hooks Irigaray Jaggar Kristeva Lerner Luxemburg MacKinnon Michel Mill Taylor Mill Millett Nussbaum Pankhurst Pateman Plumwood Rubin Saadawi Showalter Spivak Voilquin Wollstonecraft Young Zetkin Ideas Feminism analytical epistemology ethics existentialism metaphysics science Gender equality Gender performativity Social construction of gender Care ethics Intersectionality Standpoint theory Journals Feminist Philosophy Quarterly Hypatia philoSOPHIA Radical Philosophy Signs Category ► Feminist philosophy v t e Alison Assiter (born 23 October 1949),[1] FRSA, FAcSS[2] is the Professor of Feminist Theory at the University of the West of England.[3] Contents 1 Education 2 Career 3 Bibliography 3.1 Books 3.2 Journal articles 3.3 Articles 4 See also 5 References 6 External links Education[edit] Assiter gained her degree from Bristol University, her B.Phil. from Somerville College, Oxford,[3] and her D.Phil. from Sussex University in 1984.[4] Career[edit] In the early 2000s, Assiter was the dean of the Faculty of Economics and Social Science at UWE Bristol,[5] and the London School of Economics visiting professor of sociology in January 2006.[6] Assiter's book Kierkegaard, Eve and Metaphors of Birth was described as "an important contribution to the general subject matter of realizable well-being"[7] and "illuminating and thought-provoking".[8] It has also been reviewed by Times Higher Education.[9] Bibliography[edit] Books[edit] Assiter, Alison (1989). Pornography, feminism, and the individual. London Winchester, Mass: Pluto Press. ISBN 9780745303192. Assiter, Alison (1990). Althusser and feminism. London Winchester, Mass: Pluto Press. ISBN 9780745302942. Assiter, Alison; Shaw, Eileen (1993). Using records of achievement in higher education. London Philadelphia: Kogan Page. ISBN 9780749411114. Assiter, Alison; Carol, Avedon (1993). Bad girls and dirty pictures: the challenge to reclaim feminism. London Boulder, Colo: Pluto Press. ISBN 9780745305240. Assiter, Alison (1995). Transferable skills in higher education. London Philadelphia: Kogan Page. ISBN 9780749415501. Assiter, Alison (1996). Enlightened women modernist feminism in a postmodern age. London New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415083386. Assiter, Alison (2003). Revisiting universalism. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780333984529. Assiter, Alison (2009). Kierkegaard, metaphysics and political theory unfinished selves. London New York: Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 9780826498311. Assiter, Alison; Tonon, Margherita (2012). Kierkegaard and the political. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Pub. ISBN 9781443840613. Assiter, Alison (2015). Kierkegaard, Eve, and metaphors of birth. London New York: Rowman & Littlefield International. ISBN 9781783483259. Journal articles[edit] Assiter, Alison (June 1984). "Althusser and structuralism". British Journal of Sociology. 35 (2): 272–296. doi:10.2307/590235. JSTOR 590235.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) Assiter, Alison (December 2000). "Feminist epistemology and value". Feminist Theory. 1 (3): 329–345. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.452.7825. doi:10.1177/1363460706053336.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) Assiter, Alison (September 2005). "Informed consent: is it sacrosanct?". Research Ethics. 1 (3): 77–83. doi:10.1177/174701610500100302.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) Assiter, Alison (2011). "Kierkegaard, Battersby and feminism". Women: A Cultural Review. 22 (2–3): 180–191. doi:10.1080/09574042.2011.561111.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) Assiter, Alison (June 2013). "Love, Socrates, and pedagogy". Educational Theory. 63 (3): 253–263. doi:10.1111/edth.12022.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) Assiter, Alison (July 2013). "Kant and Kierkegaard on freedom and evil". Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement. 72: 275–296. doi:10.1017/S1358246113000155.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) Articles[edit] Assiter, Alison (12 November 2012), "Code Pink, multiculturalism and relativism", openDemocracy, 50.50 inclusive democracy, London.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) Retrieved 15 July 2013. See also[edit] Biography portal Society portal Louis Althusser Avedon Carol Immanuel Kant Søren Kierkegaard Socrates Code Pink References[edit] ^ "Assiter, Alison". Library of Congress. Retrieved 16 March 2017. data sheet (b. 10-23-49) ^ Assiter, Alison. "Member Academicians (list)". Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS). Retrieved 16 July 2013. ^ a b Assiter, Alison. "Professor Alison Assiter". University of the West of England. Retrieved 15 July 2013. ^ Assiter, Alison (1984). The limits of Althusserianism (PhD thesis). University of Sussex. OCLC 223725836. ^ "UWE awarded excellent results for economics and politics (press release)". info.uwe.ac.uk. University of the West of England. 21 December 2001. ^ Rose, Nikolas (November 2005). "Message from the Convenor" (PDF). Sociology Research News (LSE Newsletter). London School of Economics. 4 (1): 2. ^ Morgan, Jamie (2011). "Beyond the liberal self". Journal of Critical Realism. 10 (3): 392–409. doi:10.1558/jcr.v10i3.392.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) ^ Richardson, Janice (May 2011). "Book Review: Alison Assiter, Kierkegaard, Metaphysics and Political Theory: Unfinished Selves". European Journal of Women's Studies. 18 (2): 205–207. doi:10.1177/13505068110180020703.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) ^ Sands, Danielle (30 July 2015). 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