Marilyn Frye

Marilyn Frye (born 1941 in Tulsa, Oklahoma)^[1] is a philosophy professor (retired) and feminist theorist. She earned her Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1969 and has taught feminist philosophy, metaphysics, and philosophy of language at Michigan State University since 1974. Frye also served Michigan State University as Associate Dean for Graduate Studies of the College of Arts and Letters.

Frye is openly lesbian,^[2] and much of her work explores social categories—in particular, those based on race and gender.^[3]

Contributions to feminist theory

In Politics Of Reality, Frye argues that male heterosexual culture is fundamentally homoerotic: "The people whom ... [men] admire, respect, adore, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire ... those are, overwhelmingly, other men." ^[4]

Awards and distinctions

• Frye was named Distinguished Woman Philosopher of the Year by the Society for Women in Philosophy in 2001.^[5]
• Frye was chosen as Phi Beta Kappa’s Romanell Professor in Philosophy for 2007-2008. The annually-awarded Romanell Professorship "recognizes the recipient's distinguished achievement and substantial contribution to the public understanding of philosophy." Recipients of this award also offer a series of lectures open to the public; Frye's series was entitled "Kinds of People: Ontology and Politics."^[6]

Bibliography

• Politics Of Reality - Essays In Feminist Theory (1983)
• Willful Virgin: Essays in Feminism, 1976-1992 (1992)

The Necessity of Differences: Constructing a Positive Category of Women," SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Vol.21, No.3, Summer (1996)

• Feminist Interpretations of Mary Daly (Re-Reading the Canon), co-editor with Sarah Lucia Hoagland (2000)
• "Essentialism/Ethnocentrism: The Failure of the Ontological Cure," Is Academic Feminism Dead? Theory in Practice, ed., the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies at the University of Minnesota, NYU Press, (2000)
• "Categories and Dichotomies," Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories, ed., Loraine Code, NY: Routledge, (2000)
• "Categories in Distress," Feminist Interventions in Ethics and Politics, eds., Barbara Andrew, Jean Keller, Lisa Schwartzman; Rowman and Littlefield, Spring (2005)

See also

• American philosophy
• List of American philosophers

References

1. ^ Frye, Marilyn. The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory, The Crossing Press, 1983, ISBN 089594099X, p175
2. ^ Willful Virgin: Essays in Feminism, 1976-1992 (1992)
3. ^ MSU Philosopher Marilyn Frye Wins Romanell-Phi Beta Kappa Professorship accessed June 21, (2007)
4. ^ Frye, Marilyn. The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing, 1983.
5. ^ MSU Women’s Studies Newsletter Spring 2000 accessed June 21, 2007
6. ^ Phi Beta Kappa Society '07 Romanell Professor accessed June 21, (2007)

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