Ann Ferguson (born 6 March 1938), is an American

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

, and

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of Philosophy and Women's Studies at the

University of Massachusetts Amherst The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) is a public land-grant research university in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts system and was founded in 1863 as the ...

. She served as Amherst's director of women's studies from 1995 to 2001. She is known for her work on

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 ...

Career

After earning her PhD from

Brown University Brown University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the List of colonial colleges, seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the ' ...

, Ferguson joined the faculty at the

as a lecturer. In 1967, Ferguson began to help her students access then-illegal abortions. By 1995, she was appointed Director of Women's Studies for a three-year term. She established the Ann Ferguson Women and Gender Studies Scholarship in 2007 before retiring.

Selected books

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External links

Profile: Ann Ferguson
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