A central claim of her work is that phenomenology, in order to be feminist, must be critical, i.e. it must depart from classical phenomenological practice. Only critical phenomenology is capable of thematizing and exploring the basic structures of the political and material world in their entanglement with systematic forms of historical injustice. After 9/11, she developed the notion of "sovereign masculinity" as a way of thematizing the link between misogyny and US nationalism.
Mann was born in 1961 and grew up in a small town in Northeastern Oregon, in a large, working-class family. Her parents both grew up in ranching families, and were both military veterans. They were among the "working-poor," and Mann's views on political and economic issues were shaped by her experiences as a child. Her father worked long hours for many years in the local saw mill and the family eschewed any dependence on public assistance, though it was a struggle to meet even basic needs.
Mann excelled in school and received multiple scholarships and other financial aid, which enabled her to attend college first at the University of Portland, in Portland, Oregon, and then at Portland State University, where she received her BA in 1983. At the University of Portland, she was a student leader of what was reportedly the first student protest that institution had ever seen, over the firing of a beloved philosophy professor (Arthur. R. Luther). Her activism later focused on feminist and international issues and continued until she became a faculty member at the University of Oregon in 2003.
In 2002, Mann received her PhD in Philosophy from Stony Brook University, after a number of years alternating between activism and academic pursuits and a two-year period in which she studied and worked with feminist activists in Germany. She was influenced by the work of her dissertation advisor Eva Feder Kittay and the phenomenologist Edward S. Casey, another of her professors at Stony Brook.
An outspoken lesbian, Mann has been in a relationship with Erin Kathleen Bucklew since 1994. The couple live on a small farm near Eugene, Oregon.
Selected publications
Books
Sovereign Masculinity: Gender Lessons from the War on Terror, Oxford University Press, 2014[1][2][3][4][5]
Women's Liberation and the Sublime: Feminism, Postmodernism, Environment, Oxford University Press, 2006[6][7][8]
Edited volumes
"On ne naît pas femme: on le devient": The Life of a Sentence. Co-edited with Martina Ferrari. New York: Oxford University Press. 2017.[9][10]
Op-eds
"Marie Yovanovitch's Moral Courage" New York Times, The Stone. 2019.
"Trump's New Taunt, Kavanaugh's Defense and how Misogyny Rules," New York Times, The Stone. 2018.
"American Exceptionalism: The Gender Factor." E-International Relations. 2014.
Peer-reviewed articles
"Feminist Phenomenology and the Politics of Wonder." AVANT: The Journal of the Philosophical Interdisciplinary Vanguard. vol. IX, No. 2, 2018. Published by the Centre for Philosophical Research, Warsaw, Poland.
"The Difference of Feminist Phenomenology: The Case of Shame." PUNCTA: Journal of Critical Phenomenology (inaugural issue). 2018.[11]
"Femininity, Shame and Redemption," in Gender and the Politics of Shame, a special issue of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, edited by Clara Fischer. Vol. 33, No. 3., 2018.
"Beauvoir Against Objectivism: The Operation of the Norm in Beauvoir and Butler" in "On ne naît pas femme: on le devient": The Life of a Sentence. Edited by Bonnie Mann and Martina Ferrari. New York: Oxford University Press (pp. 37–53). 2017.
"Adoption, Race and Rescue: Transracial Adoption and Lesbian/Gay Ascendency to Whiteness" in special issue of Philosophy in the Contemporary World. Co-edited with Amrita Banerjee. 23:1. Spring, 2017 (pp. 56–70). 2017.
"Gender as Justification in Simone de Beauvoir's Le Deuxième Sexe." Sapere Aude: Journal of Philosophy, vol. 3, n. 6 (2012) Pontifíca Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, Brazil. 2012.
"Three White Men Walk into a Bar: Philosophy's Pluralism," in Radical Philosophy Review 16(3), 2013.
"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. 2012.
"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 JeremyWisnewski. Blackwell Press. Philosophy and Popular Culture Series, 2009. 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.
"Iris Marion Young: Between Phenomenology and Structural Injustice," for Dancing with Iris: Festschrift, edited by Ann Ferguson and Mecke Nagel. Oxford University Press. 2009.
References
^Sovereign Masculinity: Gender Lessons from the War on Terror. Studies in Feminist Philosophy. Oxford University Press. 8 January 2014. ISBN978-0-19-998165-6.
^Amanullah De Sondy (2015) Review of Sovereign Masculinity – Gender Lessons from the War on Terror, by B. Mann. Journal of the Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World. 2015.
^"Sovereign Masculinity: Gender Lessons from the War on Terror". Hypatia Reviews Online. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
^Mussett, Shannon M. (7 June 2015). "Sovereign Masculinity: Gender Lessons from the War on Terror by Bonnie Mann (review)". PhiloSOPHIA. 5 (1): 161–165. ISSN 2155-0905. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
^Women's Liberation and the Sublime: Feminism, Postmodernism, Environment. Studies in Feminist Philosophy. Oxford University Press. 19 October 2006. ISBN978-0-19-518746-5.
^Mitchell, Kaye (2008). "Women's Liberation and the Sublime: Feminism,Postmodernism, Environment". Radical Philosophy. 147. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
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bonnie, mann, this, biography, living, person, needs, additional, citations, verification, please, help, adding, reliable, sources, contentious, material, about, living, persons, that, unsourced, poorly, sourced, must, removed, immediately, especially, potenti. This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification Please help by adding reliable sources Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately especially if potentially libelous or harmful Find sources Bonnie Mann news newspapers books scholar JSTOR October 2022 Learn how and when to remove this template message Bonnie J Mann is an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Oregon She is known for her expertise on feminist philosophy She is co editor of Hypatia A Journal of Feminist Philosophy Bonnie J MannEducationStony Brook University SUNY PhD Portland State University BA AwardsGustav O Arlt award William s Fellow Distinguished Teaching AwardEra21st century philosophyRegionWestern philosophySchoolContinentalInstitutionsUniversity of OregonThesisFeminism and the Sublime 2002 Doctoral advisorEva Feder KittayMain interestsfeminist philosophy post Kantian philosophy phenomenologyWebsitehttps philosophy uoregon edu profile bmann A central claim of her work is that phenomenology in order to be feminist must be critical i e it must depart from classical phenomenological practice Only critical phenomenology is capable of thematizing and exploring the basic structures of the political and material world in their entanglement with systematic forms of historical injustice After 9 11 she developed the notion of sovereign masculinity as a way of thematizing the link between misogyny and US nationalism Contents 1 Biography 2 Selected publications 3 References 4 External linksBiography EditThis section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed October 2022 Learn how and when to remove this template message Mann was born in 1961 and grew up in a small town in Northeastern Oregon in a large working class family Her parents both grew up in ranching families and were both military veterans They were among the working poor and Mann s views on political and economic issues were shaped by her experiences as a child Her father worked long hours for many years in the local saw mill and the family eschewed any dependence on public assistance though it was a struggle to meet even basic needs Mann excelled in school and received multiple scholarships and other financial aid which enabled her to attend college first at the University of Portland in Portland Oregon and then at Portland State University where she received her BA in 1983 At the University of Portland she was a student leader of what was reportedly the first student protest that institution had ever seen over the firing of a beloved philosophy professor Arthur R Luther Her activism later focused on feminist and international issues and continued until she became a faculty member at the University of Oregon in 2003 In 2002 Mann received her PhD in Philosophy from Stony Brook University after a number of years alternating between activism and academic pursuits and a two year period in which she studied and worked with feminist activists in Germany She was influenced by the work of her dissertation advisor Eva Feder Kittay and the phenomenologist Edward S Casey another of her professors at Stony Brook An outspoken lesbian Mann has been in a relationship with Erin Kathleen Bucklew since 1994 The couple live on a small farm near Eugene Oregon Selected publications EditBooks Sovereign Masculinity Gender Lessons from the War on Terror Oxford University Press 2014 1 2 3 4 5 Women s Liberation and the Sublime Feminism Postmodernism Environment Oxford University Press 2006 6 7 8 Edited volumes On ne nait pas femme on le devient The Life of a Sentence Co edited with Martina Ferrari New York Oxford University Press 2017 9 10 Op eds Marie Yovanovitch s Moral Courage New York Times The Stone 2019 Trump s New Taunt Kavanaugh s Defense and how Misogyny Rules New York Times The Stone 2018 American Exceptionalism The Gender Factor E International Relations 2014 Peer reviewed articles Feminist Phenomenology and the Politics of Wonder AVANT The Journal of the Philosophical Interdisciplinary Vanguard vol IX No 2 2018 Published by the Centre for Philosophical Research Warsaw Poland The Difference of Feminist Phenomenology The Case of Shame PUNCTA Journal of Critical Phenomenology inaugural issue 2018 11 Femininity Shame and Redemption in Gender and the Politics of Shame a special issue of Hypatia A Journal of Feminist Philosophy edited by Clara Fischer Vol 33 No 3 2018 Beauvoir Against Objectivism The Operation of the Norm in Beauvoir and Butler in On ne nait pas femme on le devient The Life of a Sentence Edited by Bonnie Mann and Martina Ferrari New York Oxford University Press pp 37 53 2017 Adoption Race and Rescue Transracial Adoption and Lesbian Gay Ascendency to Whiteness in special issue of Philosophy in the Contemporary World Co edited with Amrita Banerjee 23 1 Spring 2017 pp 56 70 2017 Gender as Justification in Simone de Beauvoir s Le Deuxieme Sexe Sapere Aude Journal of Philosophy vol 3 n 6 2012 Pontifica Universidade Catolica de Minas Gerais Brazil 2012 Three White Men Walk into a Bar Philosophy s Pluralism in Radical Philosophy Review 16 3 2013 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 2012 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 JeremyWisnewski Blackwell Press Philosophy and Popular Culture Series 2009 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 Iris Marion Young Between Phenomenology and Structural Injustice for Dancing with Iris Festschrift edited by Ann Ferguson and Mecke Nagel Oxford University Press 2009 References Edit Sovereign Masculinity Gender Lessons from the War on Terror Studies in Feminist Philosophy Oxford University Press 8 January 2014 ISBN 978 0 19 998165 6 Sovereign Masculinity Review on IndieFilm Amanullah De Sondy 2015 Review of Sovereign Masculinity Gender Lessons from the War on Terror by B Mann Journal of the Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World 2015 Sovereign Masculinity Gender Lessons from the War on Terror Hypatia Reviews Online Retrieved 30 December 2018 Mussett Shannon M 7 June 2015 Sovereign Masculinity Gender Lessons from the War on Terror by Bonnie Mann review PhiloSOPHIA 5 1 161 165 ISSN 2155 0905 Retrieved 30 December 2018 Women s Liberation and the Sublime Feminism Postmodernism Environment Studies in Feminist Philosophy Oxford University Press 19 October 2006 ISBN 978 0 19 518746 5 Mitchell Kaye 2008 Women s Liberation and the Sublime Feminism Postmodernism Environment Radical Philosophy 147 Retrieved 30 December 2018 Donohoe Janet 2007 Reviewed Work Women s Liberation and the Sublime Feminism Postmodernism Environment Environmental Philosophy 4 1 amp 2 198 200 doi 10 5840 envirophil200741 216 JSTOR 26167151 On ne nait pas femme On le devient The Life of a Sentence Oxford University Press 17 August 2017 ISBN 978 0 19 060881 1 On ne nait pas femme on le devient The Life of a Sentence Review Kathryn Sophia Belle Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2018 Journal of Critical Phenomenology External links EditBonnie J Mann at the University of Oregon Hypatia A Journal of Feminist Philosophy Hypatia A Journal of Feminist Philosophy Cambridge Core Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Bonnie Mann amp oldid 1116902968, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
