Broadly speaking, my research is in feminist philosophy and modern and contemporary continental philosophy. Probably because of my many years working as an activist in the women’s movement, I am concerned with how gendered power is lived socially and politically: in the body, in language, in the imaginary life of communities, and in the capitalist nation-state. My work in feminist philosophy draws on phenomenology, poststructuralism and feminist materialism, as I think a viable account of gendered experience and gendered power must address multiple structures of human existence. I consider my work to be part of the emergent field of "critical phenomenology".  I teach and am especially engaged with the work of Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, and Judith Butler. Other figures, however, are also central to my research, including Merleau-Ponty, Marx, and Hegel.

Selected Publications (for a complete list see my C.V.)

Op-Eds/Popular Press

2019. “Marie Yovanovitch’s Moral Courage.” The Stone. New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/19/opinion/marie-yovanovitchs-moral-courage.html

2018. “Trump’s New Taunt, Kavanaugh’s Defense and How Misogyny Rules. The Stone. New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/03/opinion/kavanaugh-misogyny-epistemic-worlds.html.

Books

2014. Sovereign Masculinity:  Gender Lessons from the War on Terror. Oxford University Press.

2006.  Women’s Liberation and the Sublime:  Feminism, Postmodernism, Environment.  Oxford University Press. 

Edited Volumes

2017. Oxford University Press. “On ne naît pas femme : on le devient”:  The Life of a Sentence. Co-edited with Martina Ferrari.

Academic Journal Articles

2021. “Rape and Social Death,” Feminist Theory. 0(0) 1-21. DOI: 10.1177/14647001211012940

2019. (Editorial) Mann, Bonnie, Erin McKenna, Camisha Russell, and Rocío Zambrana. “The Promise of Feminist Philosophy.” Hypatia, vol. 34, no. 3, 2019, pp. 394–400., doi:10.1111/hypa.12490.

2018. “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.

2018. “The Difference of Feminist Phenomenology: The Case of Shame.” PUNCTA: Journal of Critical Phenomenology (inaugural issue).  2020. Polish Translation. Specyfika feministycznej fenomenologii. Przypadek wstydu. Avant, wol. XI, nr 3, doi: 10.26913/avant.2020.03.17.

2018. “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.

2013.  “Three White Men Walk into a Bar:  Philosophy’s Pluralism,” in Radical Philosophy Review 16(3), pp.

2012.  “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.

2011. “Gender Apparatus:  Torture and National Manhood in the U.S. War on Terror,” in Radical Philosophy: A Journal of Socialist and Feminist Philosophy, v. 168, July/August 2011; translated into German by  Regine Othmer as “Ein Geschlechterapparat: Folter und nationale Männlichkeit im „Krieg gegen den Terror“ der USA,” published in Feministische Studien 30. Jahrgang, Nov. 2012, No. 2.

2010.  “What Should Feminists do About Nature?”  in Konturen:  Online German Studies Journal.  http://konturen.uoregon.edu/.

2008.  “Beauvoir and the Question of a Women’s Point of View.”  Philosophy Today.  Summer.

2007.  “The Lesbian June Cleaver:  Heterosexism and Lesbian Mothering,” in Against Heterosexualism:  Overcoming Heterosexual Normativity and Defeating Heterosexist Bigotry, a special issue of Hypatia, edited by Joan Callahan, Sara Ruddick and Bonnie Mann. Volume 22, number 1 (Winter 2007).

Invited Articles, Book Chapters and Nonacademic Journals and Magazines

2017.  “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).

2014.  “American Exceptionalism:  The Gender Factor.” E-International Relations. http://www.e-ir.info/2014/03/23/american-exceptionalism-the-gender-factor/. 

2009  “Vampire Love:  The Second Sex Negotiates the 21^st 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. Excerpted in The Philosopher’s Magazine, Issue 47, 4^th Quarter, 2009. Reprinted in Introducing Philosophy through Popular Culture, ed. by William Irwin and David Kyle Johnson, Wiley-Blackwell 2010.