Ann Ferguson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3921897 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ann Ferguson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ann |
| FAMILY NAME | Ferguson |
| SIGNATURE | FERGUSON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0702-4633 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Recognising expertise in English civil litigation
In England and Wales the Civil Evidence Act 1972, s 3(1) provides that ‘where a person is called as a witness in any civil proceedings, his opinion on any relevant matter on which he is qualified to give expert evidence shall be admissible in evidence'. To be qualified to give expert evidence a witness must demonstrate knowledge or experience of some recognised field of expertise. The influential judgment in Barings plc v Cooper & Lybrand (2001) …
Is Eliminating Gender a Transnational Feminist Solution or a Western Imposition
Socialist-Feminist Transitions and Visions
Socialism from a feminist perspective is not an all or nothing blueprint, but rather a vision of degrees of power/freedom that people in a particular society have in economic, political, social and personal relations. Examples are discussed of societies which are more or less socialist in their class, racial/ethnic, and gender equality, power and freedom. Historical changes in affective economic relations of care, love and affection inform such c…
The Role of Jails in Engaging PLWHA in Care
Strategies to enhance linkages between care for HIV/Aids in jail and community settings
The policies of mass incarceration and the expansion of the criminal justice system in the USA over the last 40 years have weighed heavily on individuals and communities impacted by drug use and HIV disease. Though less than ideal, jails provide a unique opportunity to diagnose, treat and implement effective interventions. The role of jails in HIV detection, treatment, and continuity of care, however, has yet to be systematically examined. This p…
The Global Reach of Our Political Responsibilities
Iris Young, Global Responsibility, and Solidarity
In some very insightful papers in the two years before her untimely death (Young 2004, 2006c, 2006d) and her unfinished book manuscript Responsibility for Justice, Iris Young presents an overview to a new conception of social justice based on the shared political responsibility that groups of people have who are involved in structures and processes that create unjust harms to others. Her new paradigm allows a way to address questions of global re…
Dancing with Iris
I. HOMAGE TO IRIS MARION YOUNG 1. Introduction MASSACHUSETTS, AMHERST) AND MECHTHILD NAGEL, (STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, COLLEGE AT CORTLAND) 2. When I think about myself as politically engaged, I think of myself as a citizen: Interview with Irish Young 3. Letter to Iris Young II. EMBODIMENT, PHENOMENOLOGY AND GENDER 4. Iris Young and the Gendering of Phenomenology 5. Resonance and Dissonance: The Role of Personal Experience in Iris Marion Youn…
Gay Marriage
Gay marriage highlights a contradiction in American national identity: if gay marriage is supported, the normative status of the heterosexual nuclear family is undermined, while if not, the civil rights of homosexuals are undermined. This essay discusses the feminist dilemma of whether to support gay marriage to promote these individual civil rights or whether to critique marriage as a part of the patriarchal system that oppresses women.
Gay Marriage
Gay marriage highlights a contradiction in American national identity: if gay marriage is supported, the normative status of the heterosexual nuclear family is undermined, while if not, the civil rights of homosexuals are undermined. This essay discusses the feminist dilemma of whether to support gay marriage to promote these individual civil rights or whether to critique marriage as a part of the patriarchal system that oppresses women
The Science of the Individual: Leibniz’s Ontology of Individual Substance
In his well-known Discourse on Metaphysics, Leibniz puts individual substance at the basis of metaphysical building. In so doing, he connects himself to a venerable tradition. His theory of individual concept, however, breaks with another idea of the same tradition, that no account of the individual as such can be given. Contrary to what has been commonly accepted, Leibniz’s intuitions are not the mere result of the transcription of subject-predi…
Bad Boys
Statistics show that black males are disproportionately getting in trouble and being suspended from the nation's school systems. Based on three years of participant observation research at an elementary school, Bad Boys offers a richly textured account of daily interactions between teachers and students to understand this serious problem. Ann Arnett Ferguson demonstrates how a group of eleven- and twelve-year-old males are identified by school pe…
Feminist Epistemology Revisited
Resisting the Veil of Privilege
Northern researchers and service providers espousing modernist theories of development in order to understand and aid countries and peoples of the South ignore their own non-universal starting points of knowledge and their own vested interests. Universal ethics are rejected in favor of situated ethics, while a modified empowerment development model for aiding women in the South based on poststructuralism requires building a bridge identity politi…
Resisting the Veil of Privilege
Northern researchers and service providers espousing modernist theories of development in order to understand and aid countries and peoples of the South ignore their own non-universal starting points of knowledge and their own vested interests. Universal ethics are rejected in favor of situated ethics, while a modified empowerment development model for aiding women in the South based on poststructuralism requires building a bridge identity politi…
Cheshire Calhoun's Project of Separating Lesbian Theory from Feminist Theory
I support Cheshire Calhoun's argument that there is a distinctive type of sexuality injustice addressed to lesbians and gays, but challenge her definitional strategy regarding the concepts of “lesbian” and “gay” and the “universalistic essentialist” distinction that she draws between patriarchy and compulsory heterosexuality. Finally, I take issue with the political implications of her claim that lesbians’ and gays’ special oppression stems from …
Moral Responsibility and Social Change
The aim of this essay is to rethink classic issues of freedom and moral responsibility in the context of feminist and antiracist theories of male and white domination. If personal identities are socially constructed by gender, race and ethnicity, class and sexual orientation, how are social change and moral responsibility possible? An aspects theory of selfhood and three reinterpretations of identity politics show how individuals are morally resp…
Two Women's Studies Conferences in China
Professor Du Fangqin of Tianjin Normal University one of the pioneers of Chinese womens studies discussed feminist history of women as a project that has been developing in China in the last fifteen years. The general presupposition of this work is that women should be subjects not merely objects of history. There have been two trends in this feminist historical work. The first has used traditional history that is focused on dynasties marriage wo…
Moral Responsibility and Social Change
The aim of this essay is to rethink classic issues of freedom and moral responsibility in the context of feminist and antiracist theories of male and white domination. If personal identities are socially constructed by gender, race and ethnicity, class and sexual orientation, how are social change and moral responsibility possible? An aspects theory of selfhood and three reinterpretations of identity politics show how individuals are morally resp…
Bridge Identity Politics
Moral Boundaries
Twenty Years of Feminist Philosophy
This paper provides an overview of twenty years of feminist philosophy in Northamerka. The professionalization of feminist theory that has occurred through the mains treaming of feminist philosophy creates a danger of a gap between theory and practice that creates the danger of co-optation. Three stages of feminist philosophizing are outlined, including the radical critique, gender difference and difference/post-modemist stages. The last stage, i…
Women and the law
Sexual Democracy
Traces the development of socialist/feminist theory from the politics of the New Left to current post-Marxist thinking. The multisystems approach encompasses sex, race, and class and pays particular attention to racism androgyny and gynandry
The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Class in the United States Today
(1990). The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Class in the United States Today. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 3, No. 3-4, pp. 44-64
Sex War
106-112
Patriarchy, Sexual Identity, and the Sexual Revolution
Twenty Years of Feminist Philosophy
This paper provides an overview of twenty years of feminist philosophy in Northamerka. The professionalization of feminist theory that has occurred through the mains treaming of feminist philosophy creates a danger of a gap between theory and practice that creates the danger of co-optation. Three stages of feminist philosophizing are outlined, including the radical critique, gender difference and difference/post-modemist stages. The last stage, i…
Motherhood and Sexuality
This is a review essay that also serves as an introduction to the other essays in the issue. It discusses feminist theory's relation to Freud, feminist ethical questions on motherhood and sexuality, the historical question of how systems of socially constructed sexual desire connect to male dominance, the question of the role of the body in feminst theory, and disputes within feminism on self, gender, agency and power
Two Women's Studies Conferences in China
Professor Du Fangqin of Tianjin Normal University one of the pioneers of Chinese womens studies discussed feminist history of women as a project that has been developing in China in the last fifteen years. The general presupposition of this work is that women should be subjects not merely objects of history. There have been two trends in this feminist historical work. The first has used traditional history that is focused on dynasties marriage wo…
Moral Responsibility and Social Change
The aim of this essay is to rethink classic issues of freedom and moral responsibility in the context of feminist and antiracist theories of male and white domination. If personal identities are socially constructed by gender, race and ethnicity, class and sexual orientation, how are social change and moral responsibility possible? An aspects theory of selfhood and three reinterpretations of identity politics show how individuals are morally resp…
Socialist-Feminist Transitions and Visions
Socialism from a feminist perspective is not an all or nothing blueprint, but rather a vision of degrees of power/freedom that people in a particular society have in economic, political, social and personal relations. Examples are discussed of societies which are more or less socialist in their class, racial/ethnic, and gender equality, power and freedom. Historical changes in affective economic relations of care, love and affection inform such c…
Resisting the Veil of Privilege
Northern researchers and service providers espousing modernist theories of development in order to understand and aid countries and peoples of the South ignore their own non-universal starting points of knowledge and their own vested interests. Universal ethics are rejected in favor of situated ethics, while a modified empowerment development model for aiding women in the South based on poststructuralism requires building a bridge identity politi…
Cheshire Calhoun's Project of Separating Lesbian Theory from Feminist Theory
I support Cheshire Calhoun's argument that there is a distinctive type of sexuality injustice addressed to lesbians and gays, but challenge her definitional strategy regarding the concepts of “lesbian” and “gay” and the “universalistic essentialist” distinction that she draws between patriarchy and compulsory heterosexuality. Finally, I take issue with the political implications of her claim that lesbians’ and gays’ special oppression stems from …
Lesbian identity
Patriarchy, Sexual Identity, and the Sexual Revolution
Sex War
106-112
Lesbian identity
Motherhood and Sexuality
This is a review essay that also serves as an introduction to the other essays in the issue. It discusses feminist theory's relation to Freud, feminist ethical questions on motherhood and sexuality, the historical question of how systems of socially constructed sexual desire connect to male dominance, the question of the role of the body in feminst theory, and disputes within feminism on self, gender, agency and power
The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Class in the United States Today
(1990). The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Class in the United States Today. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 3, No. 3-4, pp. 44-64
Sexual Democracy
Traces the development of socialist/feminist theory from the politics of the New Left to current post-Marxist thinking. The multisystems approach encompasses sex, race, and class and pays particular attention to racism androgyny and gynandry
Women and the law
Twenty Years of Feminist Philosophy
This paper provides an overview of twenty years of feminist philosophy in Northamerka. The professionalization of feminist theory that has occurred through the mains treaming of feminist philosophy creates a danger of a gap between theory and practice that creates the danger of co-optation. Three stages of feminist philosophizing are outlined, including the radical critique, gender difference and difference/post-modemist stages. The last stage, i…
Bridge Identity Politics
Moral Boundaries
Moral Responsibility and Social Change
The aim of this essay is to rethink classic issues of freedom and moral responsibility in the context of feminist and antiracist theories of male and white domination. If personal identities are socially constructed by gender, race and ethnicity, class and sexual orientation, how are social change and moral responsibility possible? An aspects theory of selfhood and three reinterpretations of identity politics show how individuals are morally resp…
Two Women's Studies Conferences in China
Professor Du Fangqin of Tianjin Normal University one of the pioneers of Chinese womens studies discussed feminist history of women as a project that has been developing in China in the last fifteen years. The general presupposition of this work is that women should be subjects not merely objects of history. There have been two trends in this feminist historical work. The first has used traditional history that is focused on dynasties marriage wo…
Moral Responsibility and Social Change
The aim of this essay is to rethink classic issues of freedom and moral responsibility in the context of feminist and antiracist theories of male and white domination. If personal identities are socially constructed by gender, race and ethnicity, class and sexual orientation, how are social change and moral responsibility possible? An aspects theory of selfhood and three reinterpretations of identity politics show how individuals are morally resp…
Resisting the Veil of Privilege
Northern researchers and service providers espousing modernist theories of development in order to understand and aid countries and peoples of the South ignore their own non-universal starting points of knowledge and their own vested interests. Universal ethics are rejected in favor of situated ethics, while a modified empowerment development model for aiding women in the South based on poststructuralism requires building a bridge identity politi…
Resisting the Veil of Privilege
Northern researchers and service providers espousing modernist theories of development in order to understand and aid countries and peoples of the South ignore their own non-universal starting points of knowledge and their own vested interests. Universal ethics are rejected in favor of situated ethics, while a modified empowerment development model for aiding women in the South based on poststructuralism requires building a bridge identity politi…
Cheshire Calhoun's Project of Separating Lesbian Theory from Feminist Theory
I support Cheshire Calhoun's argument that there is a distinctive type of sexuality injustice addressed to lesbians and gays, but challenge her definitional strategy regarding the concepts of “lesbian” and “gay” and the “universalistic essentialist” distinction that she draws between patriarchy and compulsory heterosexuality. Finally, I take issue with the political implications of her claim that lesbians’ and gays’ special oppression stems from …
Bad Boys
Statistics show that black males are disproportionately getting in trouble and being suspended from the nation's school systems. Based on three years of participant observation research at an elementary school, Bad Boys offers a richly textured account of daily interactions between teachers and students to understand this serious problem. Ann Arnett Ferguson demonstrates how a group of eleven- and twelve-year-old males are identified by school pe…
Feminist Epistemology Revisited
The Science of the Individual: Leibniz’s Ontology of Individual Substance
In his well-known Discourse on Metaphysics, Leibniz puts individual substance at the basis of metaphysical building. In so doing, he connects himself to a venerable tradition. His theory of individual concept, however, breaks with another idea of the same tradition, that no account of the individual as such can be given. Contrary to what has been commonly accepted, Leibniz’s intuitions are not the mere result of the transcription of subject-predi…
Gay Marriage
Gay marriage highlights a contradiction in American national identity: if gay marriage is supported, the normative status of the heterosexual nuclear family is undermined, while if not, the civil rights of homosexuals are undermined. This essay discusses the feminist dilemma of whether to support gay marriage to promote these individual civil rights or whether to critique marriage as a part of the patriarchal system that oppresses women.
Gay Marriage
Gay marriage highlights a contradiction in American national identity: if gay marriage is supported, the normative status of the heterosexual nuclear family is undermined, while if not, the civil rights of homosexuals are undermined. This essay discusses the feminist dilemma of whether to support gay marriage to promote these individual civil rights or whether to critique marriage as a part of the patriarchal system that oppresses women
Iris Young, Global Responsibility, and Solidarity
In some very insightful papers in the two years before her untimely death (Young 2004, 2006c, 2006d) and her unfinished book manuscript Responsibility for Justice, Iris Young presents an overview to a new conception of social justice based on the shared political responsibility that groups of people have who are involved in structures and processes that create unjust harms to others. Her new paradigm allows a way to address questions of global re…
Dancing with Iris
I. HOMAGE TO IRIS MARION YOUNG 1. Introduction MASSACHUSETTS, AMHERST) AND MECHTHILD NAGEL, (STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, COLLEGE AT CORTLAND) 2. When I think about myself as politically engaged, I think of myself as a citizen: Interview with Irish Young 3. Letter to Iris Young II. EMBODIMENT, PHENOMENOLOGY AND GENDER 4. Iris Young and the Gendering of Phenomenology 5. Resonance and Dissonance: The Role of Personal Experience in Iris Marion Youn…
Strategies to enhance linkages between care for HIV/Aids in jail and community settings
The policies of mass incarceration and the expansion of the criminal justice system in the USA over the last 40 years have weighed heavily on individuals and communities impacted by drug use and HIV disease. Though less than ideal, jails provide a unique opportunity to diagnose, treat and implement effective interventions. The role of jails in HIV detection, treatment, and continuity of care, however, has yet to be systematically examined. This p…
The Global Reach of Our Political Responsibilities
Sociology (22 works) · Gender Studies (20 works) · Political science (20 works) · Law (17 works) · Politics (13 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Psychology (7 works)