{{Short description|British activist, born 1949}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox scholar | name = Alison Assiter | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|post-noms=FRSA FAcSS}} | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1949|10|23}} | birth_place = | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|df=yes|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | death_place = | era = | region = | workplaces = University of the West of England<br>London School of Economics | alma_mater = Bristol University<br />Somerville College, Oxford<br />University of Sussex | thesis_title = The limits of Althusserianism | thesis_url = https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/223725836 | thesis_year = 1984 | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | school_tradition = | main_interests = Feminist philosophy, feminist theory, political philosophy | principal_ideas = | major_works = ''Kierkegaard, Eve and Metaphors of Birth'' }}'''Alison Assiter''' {{post-nominals|post-noms=FRSA, FAcSS}}<ref name=AcSS>{{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 }}</ref> (born 23 October 1949),<ref name=Congress>{{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) }}</ref> is a British academic who is Professor of Feminist Theory at the University of the West of England.<ref name=UWE>{{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 }}</ref>
== Education == Assiter gained her degree from Bristol University, her B.Phil. from Somerville College, Oxford,<ref name="UWE" /> and her D.Phil. from Sussex University in 1984.<ref name=PhD>{{cite thesis|degree=PhD |last = Assiter |first = Alison|date=1984|title=The limits of Althusserianism |publisher=University of Sussex|oclc=223725836}}</ref>
== Career == In the early 2000s, Assiter was the dean of the Faculty of Economics and Social Science at UWE Bristol,<ref>{{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 }}</ref> and the London School of Economics visiting professor of sociology in January 2006.<ref name=LSE>{{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 }}</ref>
Assiter's book ''Kierkegaard, Eve and Metaphors of Birth'' was described as "an important contribution to the general subject matter of realizable well-being"<ref>{{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 }}</ref> and "illuminating and thought-provoking".<ref>{{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 }}</ref> It has also been reviewed by ''Times Higher Education''.<ref>{{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 }}</ref>
==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 }}
==See also== {{Portal|Biography|Society}}
* Louis Althusser * Avedon Carol * Immanuel Kant * Søren Kierkegaard * Socrates * Code Pink
==References== {{reflist|25em}}
==External links== * {{Official website|http://www.alisonassiter.com}}
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