Alison Assiter

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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]

Education

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

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

• 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.

See also

• Louis Althusser
• Avedon Carol
• Immanuel Kant
• Søren Kierkegaard
• Socrates
• Code Pink

References

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