Nancy Fraser is an American philosopher, critical theorist, feminist, and the Henry A and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science and professor of philosophy at The New School in New York City.
11 Facts About Nancy Fraser
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Widely known for her critique of identity politics and her philosophical work on the concept of justice, Fraser is a staunch critic of contemporary liberal feminism and its abandonment of social justice issues.
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Nancy Fraser holds honorary doctoral degrees from four universities in three countries, and won the 2010 Alfred Schutz Prize in Social Philosophy from the American Philosophical Association.
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Nancy Fraser earned her bachelor's degree in philosophy at Bryn Mawr in 1969, and a PhD in philosophy from the CUNY Graduate Center in 1980.
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Nancy Fraser taught in the philosophy department at Northwestern University for many years before moving to the New School in 1995.
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Nancy Fraser has been a visiting professor at universities in Germany, France, Spain, and the Netherlands.
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Nancy Fraser has been invited to deliver the Tanner Lectures at Stanford University and the Spinoza Lectures at the University of Amsterdam.
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Nancy Fraser has written on a wide variety of issues, but she is primarily known for her work on the philosophical conceptions of justice and injustice.
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Nancy Fraser argues that justice can be understood in two separate but interrelated ways: distributive justice, and recognition justice.
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In other words, Nancy Fraser asserts that too much of a focus on identity politics diverts attention from the deleterious effects of neoliberal capitalism and the growing wealth inequality that characterizes many societies.
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In more recent work, Nancy Fraser goes even further in linking the narrow focus of identity politics with the widening gap between the rich and poor, particularly with regard to liberal feminism, which Nancy Fraser calls the "handmaiden" of capitalism.