Anne Phillips (professor)

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Anne Phillips FBA (born 2 June 1950),^[1] is Emeritus Professor of Political Theory at the London School of Economics (LSE), where she was previously Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science. She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2003.

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Anne Phillips joined the LSE in 1999 as Professor of Gender Theory, and was Director of the Gender Institute until September 2004. She subsequently moved to a joint appointment between the Gender Institute and Government Department. She is a leading figure in feminist political theory, and 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 (awarded for Engendering Democracy). 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.

In 2002–4, she carried out a Nuffield funded research project on tensions between sexual and cultural equality in the British courts.^[2][3]

She later worked with Sawitri Saharso, Vrije Universiteit (Free University), Amsterdam, on a cross European collaboration (also funded by Nuffield) 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 (2008).^[4]

• Phillips, Anne (1995). The politics of presence. Oxford New York: Clarendon Press Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198294153. Second edition 1998.

Swedish translation Narvarons Politik Studentlitteratur, 2000.

Italian translation of Chapter 2 published in Info/Quaderni VI, n. 7-9, 18 December 2000

• Phillips, Anne (1999). Which equalities matter. Cambridge, UK Malden, Massachusetts: Polity Press Blackwell Publishers. ISBN 9780745621098.
• Phillips, Anne; Bonnie, Honig; Dryzek, John S. (2008). The Oxford handbook of political theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199548439.
• Phillips, Anne (2007). Multiculturalism without culture. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691141152.; see Multiculturalism without culture
• Phillips, Anne (2013). Our bodies, whose property. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691150864.
• Phillips, Anne (2015). The Politics of the Human. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781316145555.
• Phillips, Anne (2021). Unconditional Equals. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

• 'Multiculturalism, Universalism and the Claims of Democracy' in M. Molyneux and S. Razavi (eds) Gender Justice, Development and Rights, OUP, 2002, pp. 115–118.
• 'Recognition and the Struggle for Political Voice' in Barbara Hobson (ed) Recognition Struggles and Social Movements: Contested Identities, Agency and Power, Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 263–272.
• 'Dilemmas of Gender and Culture: the judge, the democrat and the political activist' in A. Eisenberg & J. Spinner Halev (eds) Minorities within Minorities: Equality, Rights and Diversity, Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. 113–134
• 'What is Culture?' in Barbara Arneil; Monique Deveaux; Rita Dhamoon & Avigail Eisenberg (eds) Sexual Justice/Cultural Justice: Critical Perspectives in Political Theory and Practice, Routledge, 2006. (ISBN 0-415-77092-0).

• Anne Phillips - LSE Experts entry Archived 23 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine