Alison Phipps (sociologist and feminist)

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Alison Phipps is a British political sociologist, gender studies scholar and feminist theorist, who is a professor of sociology at Newcastle University's School of Geography, Politics and Sociology.

Career[]

She was formerly director and professor of gender studies at the University of Sussex.[1] She was Chair of the Feminist and Women's Studies Association of the UK and Ireland from 2009 to 2012[2] and was one of the co-founders of Universities Against Gender-Based Violence.[3][4] She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.[5]

Research and interests[]

Her research focuses on feminist theory, sexual violence, reproduction, and institutional cultures.[6][7][8] According to Google Scholar her work has been cited over 1,600 times.[9] Her latest book Me, Not You is a critique of mainstream feminist activism against sexual violence, especially its reliance on criminal punishment, and puts forward the concept of 'political whiteness' in its analysis of how the movement operates.[10][11] The book has been endorsed by Mariame Kaba and Mona Eltahawy.

Phipps co-authored the 2013 National Union of Students report on 'lad culture' in UK universities and was subsequently a member of the NUS strategy group on this issue alongside Laura Bates and others.[12][13][14][15] With her project Changing University Cultures, she has led interventions at Imperial College London and Sussex University, amongst other institutions, designed to tackle inequalities and issues such as bullying, harassment and violence.[16][17][18][19] She worked closely with Universities UK on the issue of cultural change at universities to tackle sexual harassment and violence,[20] before withdrawing from this relationship during the 2018 pensions strikes in protest at Universities UK's involvement in and actions on this issue.[21]

Phipps has researched and been active in debating the anti-gender movement and far-right attacks on LGBT rights, is a well-known opponent of carceral feminism and trans-exclusionary feminism and a supporter of sex workers' rights.[22][23][24][25][26][27][28] As Director of Gender Studies at Sussex University, she entered a collaborative partnership with the Sex Worker Advocacy and Resistance Movement (SWARM, then the Sex Worker Open University) and supported a campaign led by the English Collective of Prostitutes to decriminalise the sex industry.[29]

Recognition and media[]

She won the 2015 FWSA Book Prize from the Feminist Studies Association for the book The Politics of the Body.[30] In addition to her academic outputs, she has been published in the Guardian,[31][32][33][34] Open Democracy,[35] the New Statesman,[36][37] and Times Higher Education.[38][39] She has been interviewed on Radio 4's Thinking Allowed.[40]

Books[]

  • Women in Science, Engineering and Technology: Three Decades of UK Initiatives (Trentham Books, 2008)
  • The Politics of the Body: Gender in a Neoliberal and Neoconservative Age (Polity Press, 2014)
  • Me, Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism (Manchester University Press, 2020)

References[]

  1. ^ "Alison Phipps". University of Sussex. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  2. ^ "The Politics of the Body: Gender in a Neoliberal and Neoconservative Age | Wiley". Wiley.com. Retrieved 2021-11-27.
  3. ^ "Universities against Gender Based Violence (UAGBV)". socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-01-30.
  4. ^ "UAGBV - Universities Against Gender Based Violence". UAGBV - Universities Against Gender Based Violence. Retrieved 2022-01-30.
  5. ^ "Alison Phipps". profiles.sussex.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-01-30.
  6. ^ "Professor Alison Phipps". Newcastle University. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  7. ^ Chamberlen, Anastasia (2014). "Book Review: The Politics of the Body: Gender in a Neoliberal and Neoconservative Age by Alison Phipps". Gender & Society. 29 (5): 749–751. doi:10.1177/0891243214559519. S2CID 142992467.
  8. ^ "The myth of choice: some ways of giving birth aren't "more feminist" than others". New Statesman. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  9. ^ "Alison Phipps". Google Scholar. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  10. ^ "The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism". tribunemag.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-11-12.
  11. ^ "She Was Walking Home: How Sarah Everard's Murder Revealed Feminism's Fault Lines". Vanity Fair. 2021-09-28. Retrieved 2021-11-12.
  12. ^ "Thats What She Said - Full Report @ NUS Connect". www.nusconnect.org.uk. Retrieved 2021-11-12.
  13. ^ "Strategy Advisory Panel @ NUS Connect". www.nusconnect.org.uk. Retrieved 2021-11-12.
  14. ^ Williams, Sally (2014-10-11). "Campus nightmare: female students on the rise of sexual harassment". The Guardian. Retrieved 2022-02-05.
  15. ^ Machell, Ben. "Lad culture on campus — should it end?". ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2022-02-05.
  16. ^ "London university accused of 'ingrained misogyny' after female students 'humiliated' by sexist behaviour". The Independent. 2016-12-14. Retrieved 2021-11-12.
  17. ^ Stirling, James (2016-12-21). "Imperial provost: we will confront our problems head on". Times Higher Education (THE). Retrieved 2021-11-12.
  18. ^ "Bullying 'endemic' at Sussex, report warns". Times Higher Education (THE). 2018-08-02. Retrieved 2021-11-12.
  19. ^ "Adam Tickell says 'dramatic change' is needed to tackle bullying on Sussex campus". University of Sussex. 2019-03-03. Retrieved 2021-11-24.
  20. ^ "Changing the culture". Universities UK. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
  21. ^ Phipps, Alison; McDonnell, Liz (2021-08-08). "On (not) being the master's tools: five years of 'Changing University Cultures'". Gender and Education: 1–17. doi:10.1080/09540253.2021.1963420. ISSN 0954-0253. S2CID 238783494.
  22. ^ "13 troubling problems with white feminism, according to a white feminist who's seen them firsthand". Pink News. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  23. ^ Schwoerer, Lili. "Book Review: Me, Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism by Alison Phipps". LSE. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  24. ^ Strudwick, Patrick. "These Women Are Making The Feminist Case For Trans Rights". BuzzFeed. Retrieved 2021-11-11.
  25. ^ "What the 'grievance studies' hoax is really about". Times Higher Education (THE). 2018-10-04. Retrieved 2021-11-12.
  26. ^ "TERF War: Transphobia In the British Media, Gender Critical Feminism and Its Effects on Trans Rights". www.vice.com. Retrieved 2021-11-12.
  27. ^ "'If they sound like a man, hang up' – how transphobia became rife in the gender-based violence sector". gal-dem. 2021-02-01. Retrieved 2021-11-25.
  28. ^ "The Carceral Feminism Of Linda Fairstein". The Appeal. Retrieved 2021-11-25.
  29. ^ Prostitutes, English Collective of (2015-08-03). "Centre for Gender Studies backs campaign to decriminalise the sex industry". English Collective of Prostitutes. Retrieved 2022-02-05.
  30. ^ "2015: Dr Alison Phipps for 'The Politics of the Body: Gender in a Neoliberal and Neoconservative Age'". Feminist Studies Association. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  31. ^ Phipps, Alison (2017-12-13). "Tackling sexual harassment on campus is about more than naming and shaming | Alison Phipps". The Guardian. Retrieved 2022-01-30.
  32. ^ Phipps, Alison (2015-06-24). "Universities, don't conflate 'lad culture' with 'drink culture'". The Guardian. Retrieved 2022-01-30.
  33. ^ Phipps, Alison (2015-02-02). "Universities are reluctant to tackle sexual violence for fear of PR fallout". The Guardian. Retrieved 2022-01-30.
  34. ^ Phipps, Alison (2014-10-15). "Lad culture thrives in our neoliberal universities". The Guardian. Retrieved 2022-01-30.
  35. ^ "'Disappearing' sex workers in the Amnesty International debate". openDemocracy. Retrieved 2022-01-30.
  36. ^ "Why feminism needs trans people and sex workers". New Statesman. 2021-06-09. Retrieved 2022-01-30.
  37. ^ "What's driving the new sexism?". New Statesman. 2014-05-19. Retrieved 2022-01-30.
  38. ^ "What the 'grievance studies' hoax is really about". Times Higher Education (THE). 2018-10-04. Retrieved 2022-01-30.
  39. ^ "The dark side of the impact agenda". Times Higher Education (THE). 2014-12-04. Retrieved 2022-01-30.
  40. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, 'Lad culture' in higher education - Fugitives from the law in Philadelphia". BBC. Retrieved 2022-01-30.

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