15 Facts About Alison Jaggar

Alison Mary Jaggar was born on September 23,1942 and is an American feminist philosopher born in England.

Alison Jaggar is College Professor of Distinction in the Philosophy and Women and Gender Studies departments at the University of Colorado, Boulder and Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom.

Alison Jaggar was one of the first people to introduce feminist concerns in to philosophy.

Alison Jaggar completed her doctorate in philosophy from the State University of New York, Buffalo in 1970.

Alison Jaggar later served as Graduate Director and Associate Chair of the Philosophy department at the university from 2004 to 2008.

Alison Jaggar chaired the American Philosophical Association Committee on the Status of Women from 1986 to 1991 and served as co-president of the North American Society for Social Philosophy from 1995 to 1997.

Alison Jaggar has been awarded research fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, American Association of University Women, the University of Edinburgh, the Norwegian Research Council and the Australian Research Council.

Alison Jaggar has served on the editorial boards of Against the Current, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Radical Philosophy Review, Asian Journal of Women's Studies, Journal of Social Philosophy, Studies in Feminist Philosophy, International Journal of Feminist Bioethics, and Journal of International Critical Thought.

Alison Jaggar was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017.

Alison Jaggar has published several articles identifying "how global institutions and policies interact with local practices to create gendered cycles of vulnerability and exploitation" and its influence on policy.

Alison Jaggar has helped develop a new poverty measure that evaluates how gender influences and is impacted by poverty.

Alison Jaggar's work has been hugely influential, with Rosemarie Tong and Nancy Williams suggesting in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy that "If ethics is about human beings' liberation, then Alison Jaggar's summary of the fourfold function of feminist ethics cannot be improved upon in any significant way" and Jaggar's texts being considered classics.

Alison Jaggar has authored a large number of widely cited papers, most notably "Love and knowledge: Emotion in feminist epistemology", published in 1989.

Alison Jaggar has acted as co-editor for the first issue of Telos, and was a co-founder and associate editor of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy from 2006 to 2008.

Alison Jaggar has written one book, edited seven books, and co-authored two:.