Anne Phillips (political theorist)

Anne Phillips is Emeritus Professor of Political Theory at the London School of Economics, where she was previously Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science. She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2003.

Profile

Anne Phillips joined the LSE in 1999 as Professor of Gender Theory, and was Director of the Gender Institute until September 2004. She subsequently was appointed to both the Gender Institute and Government Department before moving to Government. Her field is feminist political theory; she writes on issues of democracy and representation, equality, multiculturalism, and difference. Much of her work can be read as challenging the narrowness of contemporary liberal theory.
In 1992, she was co-winner of the American Political Science Association's Victoria Schuck Award for Best Book on Women and Politics published in 1991. She was awarded an honorary doctorate from Aalborg University in 1999; was appointed adjunct professor in the political science programme of the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, 2002–6.

Research projects

In 2002–4, she carried out a Nuffield funded research project on tensions between sexual and cultural equality in the British courts.
She later worked with Sawitri Saharso, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, on a cross European collaboration that has explored issues of gender and culture in their specifically European context. This involved two conferences, one in London in 2005 and the other in Amsterdam in 2006, and led to a special issue of the journal Ethnicities.

Published works

Books

Second edition 1998.
; see Multiculturalism without culture
Phillips, Anne. The Politics of the Human. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press..
Phillips, Anne. Unconditional Equals. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Journal articles

Other publications

Feminism and Politics, collection of readings with introduction. Oxford Readings in Feminism, series editors Teresa Brennan and Susan James, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 471.Democracy and Difference, Polity Press and Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993, pp. 175.Destabilising Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates, co-edited with Michele Barrett, Polity Press and Stanford University Press, 1992, pp. 224. Second English edition, 1998; Mexican edition, 1999.Engendering Democracy, Polity Press and Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991, pp. 183..
* Spanish edition, 1994; German edition 1995; Turkish edition, 1995; Mexican edition, 1996; second English edition, 1997; Croatian edition 2000; Slovenian edition, 2002.The Enigma of Colonialism: British Policy in West Africa, Indiana University Press and James Currey, 1989, pp. 184.Divided Loyalties: Dilemmas of Sex and Class, Virago Press, 1987, pp. 192.Feminism and Equality, Blackwell Publishing and New York University Press, 1987, pp. 202.Hidden Hands: Women and Economic Policies, Pluto Press, 1983, pp. 116.