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1. 1. HLSS - School of Sociology - Staff Profiles: Professor Alison Assister

   www.uwe.ac.uk/hlss/sociology/s - [Cached]

   Published on: 4/14/2008   Last Visited: 4/14/2008

   Professor Alison Assiter - Professor of Feminist Theory, Assistant Vice Chancellor, and Director of Teaching and Learning in HLSS, BA (Bristol); B.Phil.(Oxon); D.Phil. Sussex
   
   email: Alison.Assiter@uwe.ac.uk tel: +44 (0) 117 32 82367
   
   Alison Assiter came to the University of the West of England in 1998 as Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Social Science. She has a wide teaching experience and has directed a number of Teaching and Learning Projects. She has extensive publications in Philosophy, Feminist Theory, Epistemology, and on Higher Education policy issues. She is a Fellow of the RSA and Academician of the Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences.
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   Assiter, A, 1984, Did Man Make Language? Radical Philosophy, No. 34;
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   Assiter,A.(2005) Informed Consent: Is it Sacrosanct? Research Ethics Review, Nov. issue.
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   Assiter, A, 1985, Did Man Make Language? In Radical Philosophy Reader, NLB, London; also in Proper English: Language and Social Identity, ed. Edgley, R and Osborne, R, Routledge, 1990 Assiter, A, 1984, Philosophical Materialism or the Materialist Conception of History in Modernism, Explanation and Knowledge, eds Harrison, C. and Norton, F, Harper and Row, London; Assiter, A, 1988, Romance Fiction: Pornography for Women, in Perspectives on Pornography, Sexuality in Film and Literature, eds Day, G. and Bloom, C, Macmillan, London; Assiter, A, 1989, Autonomy and Pornography, in Feminist Perspectives in Philosophy, eds. M.
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   Assiter, A. 2001,Common Human Nature; an empty concept? in Feminist Perspectives on Law and Theory, ed. Richardson, J. and Sandland, R, Cavendish Publishing Limited, London; Assiter, A 2001, Descartes and Individualism, in After Postmodernism: an Introduction to Critical Realism, eds Potter, G. and Lopez, J, Athlone Press, London. Assiter, A. 2004, The Objectivity of Value, in Defending Objectivity, eds Archer, A. and Outhwaite, W, Routledge, London. Assiter, A. 2005, Moral Uncertainty, Feminism and Descartes' Demon, in Trust. Risk and Uncertainty, edsWatson, S. and Moran, A, Palgrave, Basingstoke.
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   Assiter, A, 1990, Is the Future Female?
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   Assiter, A, 1992, Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?
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   Assiter, A, 1995, Review of Blue Politics, Lacombe and Making Violence Sexy, ed.
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   Assiter, A, 1999, Review of Feminisms, eds.

2. 2. HLSS - School of Sociology Academic Staff

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   Published on: 4/14/2008   Last Visited: 4/14/2008

   Professor Alison Assiter - BA (Bristol); B.Phil.(Oxon); D.Phil. Sussex

3. 3. Witchy-woo's gettin' nasty blog. She's seriously had enough now.

   witchy-woo.blogspot.com/2006/0 - [Cached]

   Published on: 5/9/2006   Last Visited: 1/3/2007

   What follows is my transcription of the talk given by Professor Alison Assiter and the questions session that followed it.
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   Professor Alison Assiter - University of the West of England and author, Enlightened Women: "Pornography: its significance for feminism"
   
   Hi. Good morning.
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   J. - "We might still be, Alison". A.
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   I felt really invigorated by Sheila Jeffreys saying things that I've felt… the inspiration that came from Andrea Dworkin but I was very disturbed by Alison Assiter.
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   It felt to me as though Alison Assiter isn't angry enough about the way that women are coerced in the West, you know. I have two teenaged daughters. My fourteen year old spends an hour preening before she goes to school every day. You know, I love her. I don't want her to feel a fool when she does that.
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   It was the comment that Alison Assiter made that I think was deeply offensive.
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   And I also don't think that Sheila and Alison do hate the same thing.
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   I think, Alison, I think you hate radical feminism - and you hate feminists who point out that men are destructive and sexually abusive - to rather a large extent.
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   Question: I'd like to know, both Sheila and Alison, what we can do about the future.
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   As a result of the fact that in - as a result of the work of Alison, and others - pornography was de-censored, normalised and allowed to become an enormously powerful industry from the 1970's onwards. [applause] The effect of this industry; this industry is now everybody's pension schemes - they're actually wound up in it - we're all going to live off the earnings of prostitution - General Motors is in pornography now, right?
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   Second questioner: All I can see feminism at the moment is faced with tackling the problems, both the problem of fundamentalism in Iran and we've got the continuing problem in our society of why aren't things improving as much or as quickly as we thought they would, and so we have the two different responses one from Professor Assiter and one from Professor Jeffreys which says we should look at this and we should do it this way and another look at these problems in UK society instead of Iran and [inaudible] and respond in this way and I think they...
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   It is important that, in Iran - and this is a connection I have with Alison here, because we're making connections today - in Iran transgenderism is totally approved, it's enforced by the state.
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   "Alison, you're talking RUBBISH"
   
   All that guff about pretending that radical feminists are the same as Muslim fundamentalists. She didn't even provide the semblance of an argument.
   
   At 7:18 PM, Anonymous said,
   
   Just echoing thanks for doing the transcript. Not impressed with Assiter - she's actually a professor ?!! Glad the audience came back at her.
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   Yes, it was me that asked Alison Assiter how she could defend pornography never having looked at it. For pity's sake: she's written several books on it.