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Bonnie J. Mann (Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies)

Office: 371 PLC
Office Hours: Wednesday May 2: 2-3pm; Wed. May 9: 2:30-4:30pm; May 16-June 6: 11:30am-1:30pm
Phone: 541-346-5541
Email: bmann@uoregon.edu
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What does Bonnie Mann think about sexual harassment? Read “Creepers, Flirts, Heroes and Allies: Four Theses on Men and Sexual Harassment” here http://pages.uoregon.edu/uophil/files/FourThesesonSexualHarassment.pdf.

What does Bonnie Mann think about the nature/culture question in feminism? Read “What Should Feminists Do about Nature?” here: http://konturen.uoregon.edu/vol2_Mann.html

What does Bonnie Mann think about gender and nationalism? Read “Gender Apparatus: Lessons from the War on Terror” here http://pages.uoregon.edu/uophil/files/GenderApparatus_2011.pdf.

What does Bonnie Mann think about vampires? Read “Vampire Love: The Second Sex Negotiates the 21st Century” here: http://pages.uoregon.edu/uophil/files/VampireLove.pdf

CURRENT RESEARCH

Broadly speaking, my research is in feminist philosophy and modern and contemporary continental philosophy. Probably because of my many years working as an activist in the women’s movement, I am concerned with how gendered power is lived socially and politically: in the body, in language, in the imaginary life of communities, and in the capitalist nation-state. My work in feminist philosophy draws on phenomenology, poststructuralism and feminist materialism, as I think a viable account of gendered experience and gendered power must address multiple structures of human existence. I teach and am especially engaged with the work of Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, and Judith Butler. Other figures, however, are also central to my research, including Merleau-Ponty, Marx, Hegel, and Kant. 

My first book was an examination of the impact of poststructuralism on feminist politics entitled Women’s Liberation and the Sublime: Feminism, Postmodernism, Environment. I am currently at work on a book entitled Gender: Lessons from the War on Terror

I am the faculty advisor for the feminist philosophy RIG [http://csws.uoregon.edu/?page_id=610], which includes the Society for Interdisciplinary Feminist Phenomenology (founded by myself and Dr. Beata Stawarska) as one of its projects [http://sifp.uoregon.edu/]. SIFP now has more than 100 members from many different places in the world.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books and Edited Volumes

In Progress: Gender: Lessons from the War on Terror . 

2007. Edited volume, with Joan Callahan and Sarah Ruddick. Writing Against Heterosexism, a special issue of Hypatia, Volume 22, number 1 (Winter 2007).

2006. Women's Liberation and the Sublime: Feminism, Postmodernism, Environment. Oxford University Press. Winner of the 2007 Gustav O. Arlt award for outstanding scholarship in the Humanities.

Selected Articles

2012. Forthcoming. “Creepers, Flirts, Heroes and Allies: Four Theses on Men and Sexual Harassment,” in The American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, issue on Sexual Harassment, edited by Margaret Crouch.

2011. Invited Contribution. “Souveräne Männlichkeit und amerikanischer Nationalismus nach den Anschlägen vom 11. September 2001” (“National Manhood in Post-9/11/2001 USA”) Kulturaustauch. The Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations ifa and ConBrio, Berlin.

2011. "Gender Apparatus: Torture and National Manhood in the U.S. War on Terror," in Radical Philosophy: A Journal of Socialist and Feminist Philosophy, v. 168, July/August 2011.

2010. "What Should Feminist Do About Nature?" in Konturen: Online German Studies Journal. http://konturen.uoregon.edu

2009. "Vampire Love: The Second Sex Negotiates the 21st Century," in Twilight and Philosophy: Vampires, Vegetarians, and the Pursuit of Immortality, edited by Rebecca Housel and Jeremy Wisnewski. Blackwell Press. Excerpted in The Philosopher's Magazine. Issue 47, 4th Quarter, 2009. Reprinted in Introducing Philosophy through Popular Culture, ed. by William Irwin and David Kyle Johnson, Wiley-Blackwell 2010.

2009. "Iris Marion Young: Between Phenomenology and Structural Injustice," for Dancing with Iris: Festschrift, edited by Ann Ferguson and Mecke Nagel. Uninvited contribution. Oxford University Press.

2008. "Beauvoir and the Question of a Woman’s Point of View." Philosophy Today. Summer

2008. "Manhood, Sexuality, and Nation in Post 9/11 USA," in Rethinking Security: Gender, Race, and Militarization, edited by Barbara Sutton, Sandra Morgan, and Julie Novkov. Chapel Hill, N.C., Rutgers University Press.

2007. "The Lesbian June Cleaver: Heterosexism and Lesbian Mothering," in Against Heterosexualism: Overcoming Heterosexual Normativity and Defeating Heterosexist Bigotry, a special issue of Hypatia, Volume 22, number 1 (Winter 2007).

COURSE LINKS

Fall 2011
PHIL 315 Introduction to Feminist Philosophy

Winter 2012
PHIL 643 Feminist Political Philosophy

Spring 2012
PHIL 170 Love & Sex
PHIL 453/553 Arendt

 

RECENT COURSES

Philosophy of Love & Sex

Introduction to Feminist Philosophy

Feminist Philosophy Proseminar

Authors: Simone de Beauvoir, Judith Butler, Hannah Arendt

Topics: Sex/Gender; Feminist Ethics; Feminist Politcal Philosophy; Feminist Phenomenology

Society for Interdisciplinary Feminist Phenomenology