Background
Mann was born on March 10, 1952 in Dearborn, Michigan, United States; the daughter of Robert E. and Phyllis M. (Smith) Mann.
(Patricia S. Mann explains our current period as a time of...)
Patricia S. Mann explains our current period as a time of social transformation resulting from an "unmooring" of women, men, and children from the nuclear family, gender relations having replaced economic relations as the primary site of social tension and change in our lives. The feminist movement has evolved, according to Mann, into a popularly based postfeminist struggle to reconstruct relationships between women and men within everyday contexts of work, family, education, and politics. Mann formulates a "postmodern" theory of political agency, utilizing it to explain political events such as the Hill-Thomas Senate hearings and their social aftermath. While liberal and progressive theories have explained political agency in terms of individual or group forms of identity, Mann suggests another alternative. Individuals such as Anita Hill are drawn into socially meaningful struggles in the context of their daily lives-as we all are potentially participating in micro-political forms of activism in a variety of institutional contexts. These dynamic micropolitical situations involve intersecting dimensions of race, class, and sexuality, as well as gender. Within specific conflicts, individuals rearticulate their notions of desire and responsibility, and their expectations for recognition and reward; according to Mann political agency resides in these choices. Addressing some of the most important controversies in political philosophy, Mann weaves together strands of the "participatory politics" of the 1960s and the multicultural politics of the 1990s. In doing so, she offers a new basis for understanding social change.
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1994
Mann was born on March 10, 1952 in Dearborn, Michigan, United States; the daughter of Robert E. and Phyllis M. (Smith) Mann.
Mann graduated from Bates College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1973. She received a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Yale University in 1982.
Mann began her career as an adjunct associate professor at City College of New York and held the position from 1982 to 1991. A year later, she held the same position at City University of New York Graduate Center.
In 1993 she was appointed as an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University in New York City.
Since 1993, Mann has been an assistant professor at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York.
(Patricia S. Mann explains our current period as a time of...)
1994Patricia S. Mann explains our current period as a time of social transformation resulting from an "unmooring" of women, men, and children from the nuclear family, gender relations having replaced economic relations as the primary site of social tension and change in our lives. The feminist movement has evolved, according to Mann, into a popularly based postfeminist struggle to reconstruct relationships between women and men within everyday contexts of work, family, education, and politics.
Patricia Mann is a member of American Philosophical Association, Society of Philosophy & Public Affairs (executive board since 1988), Phi Beta Kappa.