Nancy Fraser

Biographical Information

Nancy Fraser is Professor of Political Science in the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research and the co-editor of the journal Constellations. After receiving her Ph.D. in philosophy from the City University of New York, Fraser taught at Northwestern University and Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität (Frankfurt, Germany). She has received numerous fellowships, grants, and prizes, and has been a visiting scholar at universities across the United States and in Europe.

Bibliography

BOOKS

Redistribution or Recognition? A Political-Philosophical Exchange. (co-authored with Axel Honneth). London: Verso, 1998.

Justice Interrupturs: Critical Reflections on the "Postsocialist" Condition. New York: Routledge, 1997.

Feminist Contentions: A Philosophical Exchange. (co-authored with Seyla Benhabib, Judith Butler, and Drucilla Cornell). New York: Routledge, 1994.

Unruly Practices: Power, Discourse and Gender in Contemporary Social Theory. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press and Polity Press, 1989.

EDITED BOOKS

Revaluing French Feminism: Critical Essays on Difference, Agency, and Culture. (co-edited with Sandra Bartky). Indiana Univeristy Press, 1992.

EDITED JOURNAL ISSUE

Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. (co-edited with Sandra Bartky). Special issue on French feminist philosophy. Vol. 3, No. 3 (Winter 1989).

ARTICLES

Note: Almost all of Fraser's articles have been reprinted multiple times in various books and journals. If you have difficulty finding a particular article as it is cited here, please contact the editor for an alternative publication.

"Social Justice in the Age of Identity Politics: Redistribution, Recognition and Participation," in The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Vol. 18. University of Utah Press, forthcoming.

"Communication, Transformation, and Consciousness-raising," in Hannah Arendt and the Meaning of Politics. Ed. Craig Calhoun and John McGowan. University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming.

"Heterosexism, Misrecognition, and Capitalism: A Response to Judith Butler." Social Text nos. 53/54 (Winter/Spring 1998).

"Another Pragmatism: Alain Locke, Critical 'Race' Theory, and the Politics of Culture," in The Revival of Pragmatism: New Essays on Social Thought, Law, and Culture. Ed. Morris Dickstein. Duke University Press, 1998.

"A Rejoinder to Iris Young." New Left Review no. 223 (May/June 1997): 126-129.

"Multiculturalism and Gender Equity: The US 'Difference' Debates Revisited." Constellations 3 (April 1996).

"A Rejoinder to Yvonne Zylan." Signs 21 (Winter 1996).

"Recognition or Redistribution? A Critical Reading of Iris Young's Justice and the Politics of Difference." Journal of Political Philosophy 3 (June 1995): 166-180.

"From Redistribution to Recognition? Dilemmas of Justice in a 'Postsocialist' Age." New Left Review no. 212 (July/August 1995): 68-93.

"Politics, Culture, and the Public Sphere: Toward a Postmodern Conception," in Social Postmodernism. Ed. Linda J. Nicholson and Steven Seidman. Cambridge University Press, 1995.

"Reinventing the Welfare State." The Boston Review 19 (March 1994): 25-27.

"After the Family Wage: Gender Equity and the Welfare State." Political Theory 22 (Nov. 1994): 591-618.

"A Genealogy of 'Dependency': Tracing a Keyword of the US Welfare State." (co-authored with Linda Gordon). Signs 19 (Winter 1994): 309-336.

"Clintonism, Welfare, and the Antisocial Wage: The Emergence of a Neoliberal Political Imaginary." Rethinking Marxism 6 (1993): 9-23.

"Beyond the Master/Subject Model: Reflections on Pateman's The Sexual Contract." Social Text no. 37 (Winter 1993): 173-181.

"Contract versus Charity: Why Is There No Social Citizenship in the united States?" (co-authored with Linda Gordon). Socialist Review 22 (July-Sept. 1992): 45-68.

"Sex, Lies, and the Public Sphere: Some Reflections on the Confirmation of Clarence Thomas." Critical Inquiry 18 (Spring 1992): 595-612.

"Introduction," in Revaluing French Feminism. Ed. Nancy Fraser and Sandra Bartky. (Indiana University Press, 1992), pp. 1-24.

"False Antitheses: A Response to Seyla Benhabib and Judith Butler." Praxis International 11 (July 1991): 166-177.

"Double Trouble: An Introduction." Hypatia 6 (Summer 1991): 152-154.

"From Irony to Prophecy to Politics: A Response to Richard Rorty." Michigan Quarterly Review 30 (Spring 1991): 259-266.

"The Force of Law: Metaphysical or Political?" Cardozo Law Review 13 (Dec. 1991): 1325-1331.

"Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy," in Habermas and the Public Sphere. Ed. Craig Calhoun. (MIT Press, 1991): 109-142.

"The Uses and Abuses of French Discourse Theories for Feminist Politics." boundary 2 17 (Summer 1990): 82-101.

"Struggle over Needs: Outline of a Socialist-Feminist Critical Theory of Late-Capitalist Political Culture," in Women, the State, and Welfare: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives. Ed. Linda Gordon. (Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1990): 205-231.

"Introduction." Hypatia 3 (Winter 1989): 1-10.

"Talking about Needs: Interpretive Contests as Political Conflicts in Welfare-State Societies." Ethics 99 (Jan. 1989): 291-313.

"Solidarity or Singularity? Richard Rorty between Romanticism and Technocracy." Praxis International 8 (Oct. 1988): 257-272.

"Social Criticism without Philosophy: An Encounter between Feminism and Postmodernism." Communication 10 (1988): 345-366.

"On the Political and the Symbolic: Against the Metaphysics of Textuality." Enclitic 9 (1987): 100-114.

"Social Movements versus Disciplinary Bureaucracies: The Discourses of Social Needs," in CHS Papers, Vol. 8. (Center for Humanistic Studies, Univ. of Minnesota, 1987): pp. 1-37.

"Women, Welfare, and the Politics of Needs Interpretation." Hypatia 2 (Winter 1987): 103-121.

"Toward a Discourse Ethic of Solidarity." Praxis International 5 (Jan. 1986): 425-429.

"What's Critical about Critical Theory? The Case of Habermas and Gender." New German Critique no. 35 (Spring/Summer 1985): pp. 97-131.

"Michel Foucault: A 'Young Conservative'?" Ethics 96 (Oct. 1985): 165-184.

"The French Derrideans: Politicizing Deconstruction or Deconstructing the Political?" New German Critique no. 33 (Fall 1984): 127-154.

"Foucault's Body-Language: A Post-Humanist Political Rhetoric?" Salmagundi no. 61 (Fall 1983): 55-70.

"Foucault on Modern Power: Empirical Insights and Normative Confusions." Praxis International 1 (Oct. 1981): 272-287.

Take a Closer Look ...

An interview with Fraser will be published in a new book soon. The citation is:

"Not Making a Virtue of Necessity: Nancy Fraser on 'Postsocialist' Politics," interview with Pam Alldred, in Storming the Millenium: The New Politics of Social Movements. Ed. Tim Jordan and Adam Lent. (Lawrence and Wishart Publishing, forthcoming).

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