Alison Assiter
(born 23 October 1949),
is a British academic who is Professor of
Feminist Theory
Feminist theory is the extension of feminism into theoretical, fictional, or Philosophy, philosophical discourse. It aims to understand the nature of gender inequality. It examines women's and men's Gender role, social roles, experiences, intere ...
at the
University of the West of England
The University of the West of England (also known as UWE Bristol) is a Public university, public research university, located in and around Bristol, England, UK. With more than 39,912 students and 4,300 staff, it is the largest provider of hi ...
.
Education
Assiter gained her degree from
Bristol University
The University of Bristol is a public research university in Bristol, England. It received its royal charter in 1909, although it can trace its roots to a Merchant Venturers' school founded in 1595 and University College, Bristol, which had ...
, her
B.Phil. from
Somerville College, Oxford
Somerville College is a Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall, one of its first two women's colleges. It began admitting men in 1994. The colle ...
,
and her
D.Phil. from
Sussex University in 1984.
Career
In the early 2000s, Assiter was the dean of the Faculty of Economics and Social Science at
UWE Bristol, and the
London School of Economics
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), established in 1895, is a public research university in London, England, and a member institution of the University of London. The school specialises in the social sciences. Founded ...
visiting professor of sociology in January 2006.
Assiter's book ''Kierkegaard, Eve and Metaphors of Birth'' was described as "an important contribution to the general subject matter of realizable well-being" and "illuminating and thought-provoking". It has also been reviewed by ''
Times Higher Education
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Ownership
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Louis Althusser
Louis Pierre Althusser (, ; ; 16 October 1918 – 22 October 1990) was a French Marxist philosopher who studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy.
Althusser was a long-time member an ...
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Avedon Carol
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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant (born Emanuel Kant; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German Philosophy, philosopher and one of the central Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant's comprehensive and systematic works ...
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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard ( , ; ; 5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855) was a Danes, Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher. He wrote critical tex ...
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Socrates
Socrates (; ; – 399 BC) was a Ancient Greek philosophy, Greek philosopher from Classical Athens, Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and as among the first moral philosophers of the Ethics, ethical tradition ...
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Code Pink
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1949 births
Academics of the University of the West of England, Bristol
Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford
Alumni of the University of Sussex
Alumni of the University of the West of England, Bristol
British feminists
British women's rights activists
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences
British women non-fiction writers
Fellows of the Royal Society of Arts
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