Alison Assiter

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| name = Alison Assiter

| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|post-noms=FRSA FAcSS}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1949|10|23}}

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| workplaces = University of the West of England
London School of Economics

| alma_mater = Bristol University
Somerville College, Oxford
University of Sussex

| thesis_title = The limits of Althusserianism

| thesis_url = https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/223725836

| thesis_year = 1984

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| main_interests = Feminist philosophy, feminist theory, political philosophy

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| major_works = Kierkegaard, Eve and Metaphors of Birth

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Alison Assiter {{post-nominals|post-noms=FRSA, FAcSS}}{{cite web|url=https://www.acss.org.uk/fellows/#A |title=Member Academicians (list)|last=Assiter|first=Alison|website=Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS)|access-date=16 July 2013 }} (born 23 October 1949),{{cite web |title= Assiter, Alison |url= http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88170005.html |publisher= Library of Congress |access-date= 16 March 2017 |quote= data sheet (b. 10-23-49) }} is a British academic who is Professor of Feminist Theory at the University of the West of England.{{cite web |last = Assiter |first = Alison |title = Professor Alison Assiter |url = http://people.uwe.ac.uk/Pages/person.aspx?accountname=campus%5Cam-assiter |website = University of the West of England |access-date = 15 July 2013 |archive-date = 9 October 2013 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131009085815/http://people.uwe.ac.uk/Pages/person.aspx?accountname=campus%5Cam-assiter |url-status = dead }}

Education

Assiter gained her degree from Bristol University, her B.Phil. from Somerville College, Oxford, and her D.Phil. from Sussex University in 1984.{{cite thesis|degree=PhD |last = Assiter |first = Alison|date=1984|title=The limits of Althusserianism |publisher=University of Sussex|oclc=223725836}}

Career

In the early 2000s, Assiter was the dean of the Faculty of Economics and Social Science at UWE Bristol,{{cite web | title = UWE awarded excellent results for economics and politics (press release) | url = http://info.uwe.ac.uk/news/uwenews/news.aspx?id=197 | website = info.uwe.ac.uk | publisher = University of the West of England | date = 21 December 2001 }} and the London School of Economics visiting professor of sociology in January 2006.{{cite journal | last = Rose | first = Nikolas | title = Message from the Convenor | journal = Sociology Research News (LSE Newsletter) | url = http://www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/pdf/NewsletterNov2005.pdf | volume = 4 | issue = 1 | page = 2 | publisher = London School of Economics | date = November 2005 }}

Assiter's book Kierkegaard, Eve and Metaphors of Birth was described as "an important contribution to the general subject matter of realizable well-being"{{Cite journal |last= Morgan | first= Jamie | title = Beyond the liberal self | journal = Journal of Critical Realism | volume = 10 | issue = 3 | pages = 392–409 | doi = 10.1558/jcr.v10i3.392 | date = 2011 | s2cid= 144202293 }} and "illuminating and thought-provoking".{{Cite journal |last= Richardson | first= Janice | title = Book Review: Alison Assiter, Kierkegaard, Metaphysics and Political Theory: Unfinished Selves | journal = European Journal of Women's Studies | volume = 18 | issue = 2 | pages = 205–207 | doi = 10.1177/13505068110180020703 | date = May 2011 | s2cid= 145492369 }} It has also been reviewed by Times Higher Education.{{cite news | last = Sands | first = Danielle | title = Kierkegaard, Eve and Metaphors of Birth, by Alison Assiter | url = https://www.timeshighereducation.com/books/review-kierkegaard-eve-and-metaphors-of-birth-alison-assiter | work = Times Higher Education | publisher = TES Global | date = 30 July 2015 }}

Bibliography

{{cite book | last = Assiter | first = Alison | title = Pornography, feminism, and the individual | publisher = Pluto Press | location = London Winchester, Mass | year = 1989 | isbn = 9780745303192 }}
{{cite book | last = Assiter | first = Alison | title = Althusser and feminism | url = https://archive.org/details/althusserfeminis0000assi | url-access = registration | publisher = Pluto Press | location = London Winchester, Mass | year = 1990 | isbn = 9780745302942 }}
{{cite book | last1 = Assiter | first1 = Alison | last2 = Shaw | first2 = Eileen | title = Using records of achievement in higher education | publisher = Kogan Page | location = London Philadelphia | year = 1993 | isbn = 9780749411114 }}
{{cite book | last1 = Assiter | first1 = Alison | last2 = Carol | first2 = Avedon | author-link2 = Avedon Carol | title = Bad girls and dirty pictures: the challenge to reclaim feminism | publisher = Pluto Press | location = London Boulder, Colo | year = 1993 | isbn = 9780745305240 }}
{{cite book | last = Assiter | first = Alison | title = Transferable skills in higher education | publisher = Kogan Page | location = London Philadelphia | year = 1995 | isbn = 9780749415501 }}
{{cite book | last = Assiter | first = Alison | title = Enlightened women modernist feminism in a postmodern age | publisher = Routledge | location = London New York | year = 1996 | isbn = 9780415083386 }}
{{cite book | last = Assiter | first = Alison | title = Revisiting universalism | publisher = Palgrave Macmillan | location = Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York | year = 2003 | isbn = 9780333984529 }}
{{cite book | last = Assiter | first = Alison | title = Kierkegaard, metaphysics and political theory unfinished selves | publisher = Continuum International Publishing Group | location = London New York | year = 2009 | isbn = 9780826498311 }}
{{cite book | last1 = Assiter | first1 = Alison | last2 = Tonon | first2 = Margherita | title = Kierkegaard and the political | publisher = Cambridge Scholars Pub | location = Newcastle upon Tyne | year = 2012 | isbn = 9781443840613 }}
{{cite book | last = Assiter | first = Alison | title = Kierkegaard, Eve, and metaphors of birth | publisher = Rowman & Littlefield International | location = London New York | year = 2015 | isbn = 9781783483259 }}