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Iris Marion Young (1949-2006)

Iris Marion Young was a Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and a visiting Professor at G.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. She served on the faculty boards of the Center for Gender Studies, the Human Rights Program, and the Center for Comparative Constitutionalism. Her research interests included political theory, feminist social theory, and normative analysis of public policy. Prior to her professorship at the University of Chicago, Young taught political theory for nine years in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. Young also served as an interpreter for the United Nations.

Young’s Justice and the Politics of Difference (1990) is internationally renowned. It was chosen as the Best Book Published on Women and Politics from the American Political Science Association. Young’s other books include Global Challenges: War, Self Determination and Responsibility for Justice (2007); Child, Family, and State, edited with Stephen Macedo (2003); Inclusion and Democracy (2002); A Companion to Feminist Philosophy, edited with Alison M. Jaggar (1998); Feminist Ethics and Social Policy, edited with Patrice DiQuinzo (1997); Intersecting Voices: Dilemmas of Gender, Political Philosophy, and Policy (1997); On Female Body Experience: “Throwing Like A Girl” and Other Essays (1990); and The Thinking Muse: Feminism and Modern French Philosophy, edited with Jeffner Allen (1989).

Young’s most recent article for Signs, “The Logic of Masculinist Protection: Reflections on the Current Security State” (Fall 2003), showcases her two-pronged scholarship on feminist theory and political theory.

Iris Marion Young died August 1, 2006.

   
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