Anne Phillips, FBA

Professor of Political and Gender Theory; LSE Gender Institute and Government Department

Contact details: H320 Connaught House, Tel: 0207 955 6979, Fax: 0207 955 6532, a.phillips@lse.ac.uk
More information: LSE Experts' entry
Office hours: Lent. Wednesdays 11.30-12.30; Thursday 2.30-3.30

Anne wins political award 25/11/08

Profile

Anne Phillips joined the LSE in 1999 as Professor of Gender Theory, and was Director of the Gender Institute until September 2004.  She subsequently moved to a joint appointment between the Gender Institute and Government Department. She is a leading figure in feminist political theory, and writes on issues of democracy and representation, equality, multiculturalism, and difference. Much of her work can be read as challenging the narrowness of contemporary liberal theory.

In 1992, she was co-winner of the American Political Science Association's Victoria Schuck Award for Best Book on Women and Politics published in 1991 (awarded for Engendering Democracy). She was awarded an honorary Doctorate from the University of Aalborg in 1999; was appointed Adjunct Professor in the Political Science Programme of the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, 2002-6; and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2003.  In 2008, she received a Special Recognition Award from the Political Studies Association, UK, for her contribution to Political Studies.

Anne's cv (pdf)

Recent and forthcoming books:

Which Equalities Matter? Polity Press, 1999, pp 159.
Oxford Handbook of Political Theory, co-edited with John Dryzek and Bonnie Honig, Oxford, 2006, pp 883.
Multiculturalism without Culture, Princeton, June 2007.  Listen to Anne on  new podcast from Philosophy Bites on political representation.

Recent and forthcoming articles:

‘More on Culture and Representation’ Social and Legal Studies, 17(4) 2008: 555-558

‘Egalitarians and the Market: Dangerous Ideals’ Social Theory and Practice, 34 (3) 2008: 439-462

‘Free to Decide for Oneself’ in Daniel O’Neill, Mary Lyndon Shanley, and Iris Marion Young (eds) The Illusion of Consent Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008: 99-118

(with Sawitri Saharso) ‘The Rights of Women and Crisis of Multiculturalism’, introduction to special issue of Ethnicities, co-edited with Sawitri Saharso, 8 (3) 2008: 291-301

(with Moira Dustin) ‘Whose Agenda Is It? Abuses of Women and Abuses of ‘Culture’ in Britain’ Ethnicities, 8 (3), 2008: 405-424

‘What is Culture?’ in Barbara Arneil, Monique Deveaux ,Rita Dhamoon, and Avigail Eisenberg (eds) Sexual Justice/Cultural Justice Routledge, 2006: 15-29

‘”Really” Equal: Opportunities and Autonomy’ Journal of Political Philosophy, 14/1, 2006: 18-32

‘Between Norms and Practicalities: a Response to Sawitri Saharso’ Ethnicities 5/2, 2005: 271-274

‘Dilemmas of Gender and Culture: the judge, the democrat and the political activist’ in A Eisenberg and J Spinner Halev (eds) Minorities within Minorities: Equality, Rights and Diversity, Cambridge University Press, 2005:113-134

(with Moira Dustin)’UK Initiatives on Forced Marriage: Regulation, Dialogue and Exit’ Political Studies, 52, October 2004: 531-551

‘Defending Equality of Outcome’ Journal of Political Philosophy, 12/1, 2004: 1-19

‘Identity Politics: Have We Now Had Enough?’ in J. Andersen and B. Siim (eds) The Politics of Inclusion and Empowerment: Gender, Class and Citizenship Palgrave Macmillan, 2004: 36-48

‘Democracy, Recognition, and Power’ in Fredrik Engelstad and Oyvind Osterud (eds) Power and Democracy: Critical Interventions Ashgate, 2004: 57-78

‘Recognition and the Struggle for Political Voice‘ in Barbara Hobson (ed) Recognition Struggles and Social Movements: Contested Identities, Agency and Power Cambridge University Press, 2003: 263-273

‘When Culture Means Gender: Issues of Cultural Defence in the British Courts’ Modern Law Review 66, 2003: 510-531

‘Multiculturalism, universalism and the claims of democracy’ in M.Molyneux and S.Razavi (eds) Gender Justice, Development and Rights, Oxford University Press, 2002:115-138
(Also published as Programme Paper 7, Democracy, Governance and Human Rights, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 2001)

Recent Research Projects:

In 2002-4, she carried out a Nuffield funded research project on tensions between sexual and cultural equality in the British courts. See the women and cultural diversity database http://webdb.lse.ac.uk/gender/; See final report for this project.

She is currently working with Sawitri Sharaso, Vrei Universitat, Amsterdam, on a cross European collaboration (also funded by Nuffield) that has explored issues of gender and culture in their specifically European context. This involved two conferences, one in London in 2005 and the other in Amsterdam in 2006, and will lead to a special issue of the journal Ethnicities (2008).  See project proposal.  Update: final report

Other Publications:

Feminism and Politics, collection of readings with introduction. Oxford Readings in Feminism, series editors Teresa Brennan and Susan James, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp471

The Politics of Presence, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1995, pp209 - Published in Oxford Political Theory, series editors David Miller and Alan Ryan. Second edition 1998.
Swedish translation Narvarons Politik Studentlitteratur, 2000.
Italian translation of Chapter 2 published in Info/Quaderni VI, n 7-9, 2000-12-18

Democracy and Difference Polity Press and Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993, pp175

Destabilising Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates, co-edited with Michele Barrett, Polity Press and Stanford University Press, 1992, pp224. Second English edition, 1998; Mexican edition,1999

Engendering Democracy Polity Press and Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991, pp183
Co-winner of American Political Science Association's Victoria Schuck Award for Best Book on Women and Politics published in 1991
Spanish edition, 1994; German edition 1995; Turkish edition, 1995; Mexican edition, 1996; second English edition, 1997; Croatian edition 2000; Slovenian edition, 2002

The Enigma of Colonialism: British Policy in West Africa Indiana University Press and James Currey, 1989, pp184

Divided Loyalties: Dilemmas of Sex and Class Virago, 1987, pp192

Feminism and Equality (edited readings with an introductory essay), Blackwell and New York University Press, 1987, pp202

Hidden Hands: Women and Economic Policies Pluto Press, 1983, pp116

Other Essays

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