A Phillips
Biographic Data
| ID | 16432 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Phillips |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Phillips |
| SIGNATURE | PHILLIPS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0989-136X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 85 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 633 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 85 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1949 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Does Philosophy Need to Know Its History
Resisting inequality: The Turn Towards History
Do we Need a Legal Gender
The Politics of Presence Revisited
Almost three decades after its first publication, Anne Phillips reflects on the Politics of Presence in the context of contemporary developments from #MeToo to Black Lives Matter. Granting the importance of a contingent and intersectional understanding of presence, she reemphasizes the necessity of descriptive representation. Phillips reflects on questions of anonymity, essentialism, the multiple self, unconditional equality, and the current role…
Political theory as risk and disruption
Political Theory as Risk and Disruption
On canons and question marks: The work of women’s international thought
Unconditional Equals
For centuries, ringing declarations about all men being created equal appealed to a shared human nature as the reason to consider ourselves equals. But appeals to natural equality invited gradations of natural difference, and the ambiguity at the heart of “nature” enabled generations to write of people as equal by nature while barely noticing the exclusion of those marked as inferior by their gender, race, or class. Despite what we commonly tell …
Unconditional Equals
Dealing with Difference: A Politics of Ideas, or a Politics of Presence?
Does Feminism Need a Conception of Civil Society?
Rescuing the Human from Human Nature
Noel Malcolm argues that the whole project of trying to deduce human rights from basic features of humanity is ‘flawed and unworkable’. The features taken as distinguishing humans from animals, and thereby justifying their human rights, typically resolve into some version of dignity or rationality or moral agency; but when philosophers attempt to derive from these something approximating what we currently understand as human rights, they find the…
The Newness of Little Women
The first readers and reviewers of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women recognized it as something new. As the reviewer for Arthur’s Illustrated Home Magazine exulted in December 1868, “This book is mo
Por qué las teóricas de género no hablan más acerca de la igualdad de género
Por qué las teóricas de género no hablan más acerca de la igualdad de género
Why Don't Gender Theorists Talk More about Gender Equality
Why Don't Gender Theorists Talk More about Gender Equality
What Makes Culture Special
Gender and Modernity
In contemporary renderings of modernity, it is patented to the West and assumed to include gender equality; a commitment to gender equality then risks becoming overlaid with hierarchies of country and culture. One way of contesting this, associated with alternative modernities, takes issue with the presumed Western origins of modernity. Another, associated with feminism, subjects the claim the modern societies deliver gender equality to more crit…
Dialogue, politics and gender
The Politics of the Human
The human is a central reference point for human rights. But who or what is that human? And given its long history of exclusiveness, when so many of those now recognised as human were denied the name, how much confidence can we attach to the term? This book works towards a sense of the human that does without substantive accounts of 'humanity' while also avoiding their opposite – the contentless versions that deny important differences such as ra…
The Community Earth System Model (Cesm) Large Ensemble Project: A Community Resource for Studying Climate Change in the Presence of Internal Climate Variability
While internal climate variability is known to affect climate projections, its influence is often underappreciated and confused with model error. Why? In general, modeling centers contribute a small number of realizations to international climate model assessments [e.g., phase 5 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5)]. As a result, model error and internal climate variability are difficult, and at times impossible, to disentangle. I…
City: Introduction
In the six years since its release in 2008, Jia Zhangke's 24 City/Er shi si cheng ji has achieved global recognition for its subtle orchestration of representational strategies in order to present a multilayered report on the changes facing the urban population of today's postsocialist China. The film is largely based around a series of interviews with the people who have lived and worked in Factory 420, a former military aeroplane manufacturing …
Forty Miles from the Sea: Xalapa, the Public Sphere, and the Atlantic World in Nineteenth-Century Mexico - by Moore, Rachel A
Overview of Political Theory
This introductory article explains the theme of this book, which is about political theory. It evaluates the impact of literature that proved especially influential in framing debate through the last decades of the twentieth century and opening years of the twenty-first and examines the historical work on political thought. It describes the combination of concerns that runs through the work of John Rawls, Ronald Dworkin, and the liberal egalitari…
Our Bodies, Whose Property
No one wants to be treated like an object, regarded as an item of property, or put up for sale. Yet many people frame personal autonomy in terms of self-ownership, representing themselves as property owners with the right to do as they wish with their bodies. Others do not use the language of property, but are similarly insistent on the rights of free individuals to decide for themselves whether to engage in commercial transactions for sex, repro…
Inequality and Markets: A Response to Jessica Flanigan
Sex and Skill: Notes towards a Feminist Economics
This paper was originally written for presentation at the Nuffield Conference on De-skilling and the Labour Process, in November 1979, and later discussed by the Conference of Socialist Economists Sex and Class Group. We should like to thank Sue Himmelweit for her comments on the first drafts and for her encouragement to rewrite it for Feminist Review: In revising it we have gradually come to realize that it opens up many more questions than it r…
Multiculturalism without Culture
Public opinion in recent years has soured on multiculturalism, due in large part to fears of radical Islam. In Multiculturalism without Culture , Anne Phillips contends that critics misrepresent culture as the explanation of everything individuals from minority and non-Western groups do. She puts forward a defense of multiculturalism that dispenses with notions of culture, instead placing individuals themselves at its core. Multiculturalism has b…
Defending Equality of Outcome
Whose agenda Is It: Abuses of women and abuses of `culture' in Britain1
Developments in Britain reflect a shift from a shallow but widely endorsed multiculturalism to a growing preoccupation with abuses of women in minority cultural groups. Four main issues have been debated in the media and have become the basis of either public policy or legal judgment: forced marriage, honour killing, female genital cutting and women's Islamic dress. The treatment of these issues has often been problematic, with discourses over cu…
Dealing With Difference: A Politics of Ideas Or A Politics of Presence?1
UK Initiatives on Forced Marriage: Regulation, Dialogue and Exit
The literature on feminism and multiculturalism has identified potential conflicts between the recognition of cultural diversity and securing women's equality. Three broad approaches to this dilemma have emerged in the practices of contemporary states: regulation, working with the communities, and exit. Each of these is apparent in current initiatives regarding forced marriage, but the overwhelming emphasis in the UK has been on enabling individu…
What's wrong with Essentialism
This paper identifies and discusses four distinct meanings of essentialism. The first is the attribution of certain characteristics to everyone subsumed within a particular category: the ‘(all) women are caring and empathetic’, ‘(all) Africans have rhythm’, ‘(all) Asians are community oriented’ syndrome. The second is the attribution of those characteristics to the category, in ways that naturalise or reify what may be socially created or constru…
Representation and Inclusion
In 1995, the fourth and most influential world conference on women delivered the Beijing Declaration, calling for “women's empowerment and their full participation on the basis of equality in all spheres of society, including participation in the decision-making process and access to power.” The idea that women needed not just the equal right to vote and participate in politics, but “full participation on the basis of equality,” had been gatherin…
De uma política de idéias a uma política de presença
A crescente preocupação com o tema da exclusão política desafia o entendimento tradicional sobre os mecanismos representativos, em especial a percepção arraigada de que a chave da boa representação política está no programa e nas idéias compartilhadas entre representantes e representadas/os - sem qualquer referência à identidade das/os representantes. Contra isso, cada vez mais é afirmada a necessidade de presença física dos grupos excluídos nos …
Must Feminists Give up on Liberal Democracy
Feminists have taken issue with liberal democracy on a number of counts, including the conditions necessary to achieve political equality and the importance to be attached to political participation. This paper considers issues currently raised under the rubric of citizenship, earlier and continuing arguments for a more actively participatory democracy, and questions associated with representing social heterogeneity and group difference. The argu…
The concept of ‘development’
Rather than just debate whether there is an ‘African capitalism’ and whether it can be ‘developmental’ such questions are themselves rejected as meaningless. There is no satisfactory definition of ‘development’ that does not already imply ‘capitalism’, even on the most technological definition. Theories of underdevelopment thus beg the question. Moreover insofar as they offer justification for the ‘logic’ of socialism, they are focusing on Utopia…
Feminism and Liberalism Revisited: Has Martha Nussbaum Got It Right
Really' Equal: Opportunities and Autonomy
Equality of opportunity has become the default position in contemporary liberal democracies, something to which no one could seriously object.Apart from its seeming obviousness (who would not prefer more opportunities to less, and who would say that their distribution should be unequal?), it has two especially compelling attractions for political theorists.The first is that it recognises that different things matter to different people, hence tha…
When Culture Means Gender: Issues of Cultural Defence in the English Courts
The use of cultural defence has been much discussed in the American context and has figured as one of the areas of concern in feminist assessments of multiculturalism. This paper examines two categories of cases from the English courts, those where cultural context has been seen as significant in interpreting the actions of female defendants, and those where ‘culture’ is invoked to explain severe acts of violence against women. It argues that cul…
Gender and Modernity
In contemporary renderings of modernity, it is patented to the West and assumed to include gender equality; a commitment to gender equality then risks becoming overlaid with hierarchies of country and culture. One way of contesting this, associated with alternative modernities, takes issue with the presumed Western origins of modernity. Another, associated with feminism, subjects the claim the modern societies deliver gender equality to more crit…
It’s My Body and I’ll Do What I Like With It: Bodies as Objects and Property
What, if any, is the problem with treating bodies as objects or property? Is there a defensible basis for seeing bodies as different from “other” material resources? Or is thinking the body special a kind of sentimentalism that blocks clear thinking about matters such as prostitution, surrogate motherhood, and the sale of spare kidneys? I argue that the language we use does matter, and that thinking of the body as property encourages a self/body …
Feminism and Republicanism: Is This a Plausible Alliance
O que há de errado com a democracia liberal
O texto discute os limites das democracias liberais a partir das desigualdades de gênero. As discrepâncias entre o corpo dos eleitos e o conjunto dos eleitores são o ponto de partida para a proposta de reconceitualizar a democracia tendo em mente as diferenças de gênero. A representação de grupos, e não de indivíduos, é o primeiro aspecto analisado, considerando padrões sistemáticos de exclusão e problemas relativos às identidades dos grupos. Ess…
From Inequality to Difference: A Severe Case of Displacement
When considering the shifts in left thinking over the past fifteen years, it is hard to avoid some notion of displacement: the cultural displacing the material; identity politics displacing class; the politics of constitutional reform displacing the economics of equality. Difference, in particular, seems to have displaced inequality
Democracy and Difference: Some Problems for Feminist Theory
More on Culture and Representation
Declaring independence: Why we should be cautious
Declaring independence: why we should be cautious A review article identified 246 different risk factors for coronary heart disease.' Many of these 246 were risk factors asserted to be "independent", that is, their association with coronary heart disease was not due to relationships with other, confounding, factors. Establishing the independence ofeffects is central in analytical epidemiological studies and is seen as an important step in assigni…
Equality, Pluralism, Universality: Current Concerns in Normative Theory
This article reviews recent debates in normative theory. It argues that work on equality has bifurcated in a disturbing way, with much of the work on economic equality focusing on the principles that should regulate the distribution of goods between individuals, and much of the work on social equality dealing with patterns of oppression that affect the relationship between marginal and dominant groups. The first literature has been relatively ind…
On canons and question marks: The work of women’s international thought
Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity
Journal Article Edward Dimendberg, Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity Get access Edward Dimendberg, Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004, 327 pp. Alastair Phillips Alastair Phillips Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 46, Issue 2, Summer 2005, Pages 287–294, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/46.2.287 Published: 01 July 2005
Post Office Parliamentary Questions
Technology and Market Structure
Journal Article Phillips (A.). Technology and Market Structure Technology and Market Structure. By A. Phillips. (Lexington, Massachusetts: Heath Lexington, 1971. Pp. xviii + 233. $12.50.) B. M. Deakin B. M. Deakin Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 81, Issue 324, 1 December 1971, Pages 960–962, https://doi.org/10.2307/223034…
The concept of ‘development’
Rather than just debate whether there is an ‘African capitalism’ and whether it can be ‘developmental’ such questions are themselves rejected as meaningless. There is no satisfactory definition of ‘development’ that does not already imply ‘capitalism’, even on the most technological definition. Theories of underdevelopment thus beg the question. Moreover insofar as they offer justification for the ‘logic’ of socialism, they are focusing on Utopia…
Gender, Sex-Role Identity and Avoidance-Confrontation of Existential Issues for Psychiatric Inpatients
Viewing at least the beginnings of personality development beyond culturally stereotypic sex-roles as theoretically related to the openness to confront existential issues in general, the confrontation-avoidance of existential issues for 32 male and 32 female psychiatric inpatients was investigated. Subjects were grouped for analysis of variance by gender and by median splits of Bern Sex-role Inventory scores for masculinity and femininity. Althou…
Education for Emancipation: The Movement for Independent Working Class Education 1908-1928
Class prejudice and ignorance of elementary economics has a firmer grip upon the working class than ever before ... Unfortunately, almost the only agency is the Labour Colleges, which are imparting instruction in false economics."[1
Aboriginal Studies at an Aboriginal College
One of the criticisms voiced against Aboriginal Residential Colleges such as Yirara is that we "take the students away from their culture". I don't necessarily agree with this comment for a number of reasons.Aspects of life at Yirara suggest to me that male and female students who attend could in fact be exposed to more traditional Aboriginal culture than they would normally experience at home. This, of course, applies to some communities more th…
Sex and Skill: Notes towards a Feminist Economics
This paper was originally written for presentation at the Nuffield Conference on De-skilling and the Labour Process, in November 1979, and later discussed by the Conference of Socialist Economists Sex and Class Group. We should like to thank Sue Himmelweit for her comments on the first drafts and for her encouragement to rewrite it for Feminist Review: In revising it we have gradually come to realize that it opens up many more questions than it r…
Brothers: Male Dominance and Technological Change
Hidden Hands: Women and Economic Policies
Feminism and Class Politics: A Round-Table Discussion
In December 1984 Angela Weir and Elizabeth Wilson, two founding members of Feminist Review, published an article assessing contemporary British feminism and its relationship to the left and to class struggle. They suggested that the women's movement in general, and socialist-feminism in particular, had lost its former political sharpness. The academic focus of socialist-feminism has proved more interested in theorizing the ideological basis of se…
Divided Loyalties: Dilemmas of Sex and Class
Divided Loyalties: Dilemmas of Sex and Class
Declaring independence: Why we should be cautious
Declaring independence: why we should be cautious A review article identified 246 different risk factors for coronary heart disease.' Many of these 246 were risk factors asserted to be "independent", that is, their association with coronary heart disease was not due to relationships with other, confounding, factors. Establishing the independence ofeffects is central in analytical epidemiological studies and is seen as an important step in assigni…
The Enigma of Colonialism: British Policy in West Africa
Does Women's Participation Matter
Democracy and Difference: Some Problems for Feminist Theory
Must Feminists Give up on Liberal Democracy
Feminists have taken issue with liberal democracy on a number of counts, including the conditions necessary to achieve political equality and the importance to be attached to political participation. This paper considers issues currently raised under the rubric of citizenship, earlier and continuing arguments for a more actively participatory democracy, and questions associated with representing social heterogeneity and group difference. The argu…
Feminist Interpretations and Political Theory
The Enigma of Colonialism: British Policy in West Africa
The Enigma of Colonialism: British Policy in West Africa
Dimensions of Radical Democracy
Tobacco-free schools in a tobacco-growing state
Dealing With Difference: A Politics of Ideas Or A Politics of Presence?1
Debates feministas contemporáneos
Debates feministas contemporáneos
From Inequality to Difference: A Severe Case of Displacement
When considering the shifts in left thinking over the past fifteen years, it is hard to avoid some notion of displacement: the cultural displacing the material; identity politics displacing class; the politics of constitutional reform displacing the economics of equality. Difference, in particular, seems to have displaced inequality
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