Alison M. Jaggar

Jaggar has been a trailblazer in feminist philosophy and feminist studies generally. In the 1970s-80s, she introduced interdisciplinary and activist feminist theory to mainstream philosophy. Her book Feminist Politics and Human Nature (1983) demonstrated the importance of systematic feminist thinking to unearth gender biases in philosophy and to provide normative frameworks for feminist politics. Her recent work on global justice disrupts gendered and racialized assumptions about transnational divisions labor and migration, and challenges conceptualizations of violence, honor, and consent. She has been primary investigator in a project to develop a measure capable of revealing the gendered dimensions of global poverty.