Anne Phillips Quotes on Politics
Anne Phillips is a British political philosopher, Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science emerita at the London School of Economics, and one of the most influential contemporary feminist political theorists in the analytic tradition. This page collects quotes attributed to Anne Phillips on the topic of politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Anne Phillips:
“The presence of women and minorities in political institutions is itself a form of representation, not merely a means to it.”
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Attributed to Anne Phillips:
“Multiculturalism need not, and should not, fix culture as the property of any one description.”
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Attributed to Anne Phillips:
“The body cannot be removed from political philosophy without removing the citizen who has the body.”
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Attributed to Anne Phillips:
“Equality of status is not the same as equality of outcome, but neither is it independent of it.”
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Attributed to Anne Phillips:
“Contractualist political philosophy thinks itself disembodied; it has merely forgotten the bodies it presupposes.”