Bonnie Mann Department of Philosophy University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403-1295 bmann@uoregon.edu (541) 346-5541 :Office (541) 346-5544 :FAX

CURRENT RESEARCH Broadly speaking, my research is in feminist philosophy and modern and contemporary continental philosophy. I engage themes from and philosophical work on aesthetics, the environment, and embodied experience in my work. I work out of and with the continental tradition, with an emphasis on Kant, Hegel, Marx, Arendt, Beauvoir, and Merleau-Ponty. My writing is often directed at sorting through, deploying and thinking critically about what we call "postmodern feminism," or "poststructuralist feminism." Probably because of my many years working as an activist in the movement against violence against women, I am concerned with the liberatory impulse in feminist philosophy, and how it fares in poststructuralist thought; I tend to think it doesn’t fare very well, and to worry about why. I draw on the phenomenological tradition as a resource for thinking differently about traditional distinctions between mind and body, matter and spirit -- and in an effort to recuperate the liberatory impulse in feminist thought. My current research engages the work of Simone de Beauvoir; issues of war, gender and aesthetics; the relation between gender as identity and experience and a broader politics of gender; and the relation and dispute between phenomenology and psychoanalysis. Beata Stawarska, a number of feminist graduate students and I, with support from the Center for the Study of Women in Society, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Philosophy Department, are in the process of founding the Society for Interdisciplinary Feminist Phenomenology. We will hold our first institute and conference in the Spring of 2008 and our website should be up sometime this fall.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Books and Edited Volumes 2007. Edited volume, with Joan Callahan and Sarah Ruddick. Writing Against Heterosexism, a special issue of Hypatia, Volume 22, number 1 (Winter 2007). 2006. Women's Liberation and the Sublime. Oxford University Press. Journal Articles Under Review. "Beauvoir and the Question of a Woman’s Point of View." Philosophy Today. 2007. "Musings: Gay Marriage and the War on Terror," (editorial) in Against Heterosexualism: Overcoming Heterosexual Normativity and Defeating Heterosexist Bigotry, a special issue of Hypatia, Volume 22, number 1 (Winter 2007). 2007. "The Lesbian June Cleaver: Heterosexism and Lesbian Mothering," in Against Heterosexualism: Overcoming Heterosexual Normativity and Defeating Heterosexist Bigotry, a special issue of Hypatia, Volume 22, number 1 (Winter 2007). 2006. "Care, Domination and Representation," co-authored with Amy Story and Roxy Green, in Journal of Mass Media Ethics, vol. 21, no. 2-3, 2006. 2006. "How America Justifies Its War: A Modern/Postmodern Aesthetics of War and Sovereignty," in Hypatia, Volume 21, no. 4 (Fall 2006). 2005. "World Alienation in Feminist Thought: The Sublime Epistemology of Emphatic Anti-Essentialism," in The Epistemic Significance of Place, a special issue of Ethics and the Environment, edited by Christopher Preston, Indiana University Press, 10(2). Book Chapters and Invited Contributions Forthcoming, 2007. "Iris Marion Young: Between Phenomenology and Structural Injustice," for Iris Marion Young: Festschrift, edited by Ann Ferguson. Forthcoming, 2007. "Manhood, Sexuality and Nation in Post 9/11 USA," in Rethinking Security: Gender, Race, and Militarization Edited by Bárbara Sutton, Sandra Morgen, and Julie Novkov. Under contract with Rutgers University Press. 2002. "Dependence on Place, Dependence in Place," in Theoretical Perspectives on Women and Dependency, ed. by Eva Feder Kittay and Ellen Feder. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield's Feminist Constructions Series. 2002. "Talking Back to Feminist Postmodernism: Toward a New Radical Feminist Interpretation of the Body," in Recognition, Responsibility and Rights: Feminist Ethics and Social Theory, ed. by Robin Fiore and Hilde Nelson. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield's Feminist Constructions Series. Refereed.

COURSES OFFERED 2007-2008 Philosophy of Love and Sex (each year) PHIL 170              Spring, 2008 Introduction to Feminist Philosophy (each year) PHIL 315              Winter, 2008 Authors: Hannah Arendt PHIL 463/546      Fall, 2007 Feminist Ethics PHIL 664              Fall, 2007

OTHER RECENT COURSES Topics: Sex/Gender: Nature and culture before and after the linguistic turn Authors: Simone de Beauvoir Feminist Political Philosophy Feminism and Aesthetics Feminist Phenomenology

Society for Interdisciplinary Feminist Phenomenology

 

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