Background
Marilyn Frye was born in 1941 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States.
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philosopher author radical feminist theorist
Marilyn Frye was born in 1941 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States.
Frye received the BA with honors in philosophy from Stanford University in 1963 and received the PhD in Philosophy at Cornell University in 1969, writing a dissertation titled "Meaning and Illocutionary Force," under the supervision of Max Black.
Marilyn taught in the Philosophy Department at the University of Pittsburgh until 1974. In 1974 she taught at Michigan State University. From 2003 until her retirement, Frye was University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University, she also served as Associate Dean for Graduate Studies of the College of Arts and Letters. Frye is the author of "The Politics of Reality" (1983), a collection of nine essays which has become a "classic" of feminist philosophy.
Frye was named Distinguished Woman Philosopher of the Year by the Society for Women in Philosophy in 2001. Frye was chosen as Phi Beta Kappa's Romanell Professor in Philosophy for 2007-2008. 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."
Quotations:
"Differences of power are always manifested in asymmetrical access. The President of the United States has access to almost everybody for almost anything he might want of them, and almost nobody has access to him. The super-rich have access to almost everybody; almost nobody has access to them. ... The creation and manipulation of power is constituted of the manipulation and control of access."
"Female heterosexuality is not a biological drive or an individual women's erotic attraction or attachment to another human animal which happens to be male. Female heterosexuality is a set of social institutions and practices... Those definitions... are about the oppression and exploitation of women by men."
"I wish you would grow to the understanding that you choose heterosexuality."
In 2008 she was the Phi Beta Kappa Romanell Lecturer.
Frye is openly lesbian.
Frye wrote a dissertation titled "Meaning and Illocutionary Force" under the supervision of Max Black.
