Nanette Funk


Education

B.A. Brooklyn College
Ph..D. Cornell University, 1981.

Areas of Specialization: Social and Political Philosophy, German Contemporary Philosophy, Marxism, Feminist Political Theory, Gender and Post Communism

Publications

Books

Gender Politics and Post-Communism: Reflections from Women from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union (eds.) Nanette Funk and Magda Mueller, with an Introduction by Nanette Funk (New York: Routledge, 1993), 350 pages

Articles

“The East-West Women’s Dialog After 15 Years: 1990- 2005" in Living Gender After Communism Janet Elise Johnson and Jean Robinson (ed.) (Indiana Press, 2006) (forthcoming)

“Women’s NGOs in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union: The Imperialist Criticism” in Active Citizenship, Women’s Agency in Central and East Europe, (eds.) Joanna Regulska, Jasmina Lukic and Darja Zavirsek 2006 Ashgate Press (forthcoming)

. “Women’s NGOs in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union: The Imperialist Criticism” in femina politica. Zeitschrift für feministische Politik-Wissenschaft 2006 (forthcoming)

“Chinese Women Studies: A Comparison” Preface in Zhinghou Zhou, Chinese Women’s Studies (forthcoming)

. “Women’s NGOs in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union and the EU: The Anti-Imperialist Criticism” [ Submitted and accepted for publication.]. Ashgate Press.

. “Anglo-American Feminist Political Theory: Can It Travel East to East and Central 2000. Europe and the Former Soviet Union?” Signs,Vol 29, Number 3, (Spring 2004) pp.695-726.

Review ,Gender in Transition in Eastern and Central Europe. Proceedings in Bulletin 22, Center for Interdisciplinary Women’s Research at Humboldt University, Berlin, Spring, 2001, pp.46-9

“An Interview with Valerie Sperling on Engendering Transition in Russia, New Politics,Summer 2004, pp.122-132

"Zwischen Privaten und Oeffentlichem: Das neue Abtreibungsgesetz in Deutschland," [Between the Public and the Private: The New Abortion Law in Germany], in Kongressreader Vol.1, German Philosophical Association, September,1996. pp.236-243

"Abortion Counseling and the 1995 German Abortion Law," Connecticut Journal of Inter-national Law, Vol.12, No.1 (Fall,1996) pp.33-65.

"Patriarchal Morality vs. Democracy: The 1993 German Constitutional Court Decision," Research on Russia and Eastern Europe: Women in Post-Communism (eds.) Barbara Wejnert and Mehta Spencer (JAI Press) 1996 pp.225-246

"Gibt es einen grenzueberschreitenden Feminismus zwischen Ost und West?" [Is Feminism Across East - West Borders possible?] in Frauenbewegung und Frauenpolitik in Osteuropa [The Women's Movement and Women's Politics in Eastern Europe] (Berlin: Campus Verlag) 1995 pp. 34-45

"Feminism Meets Post-Communism: The Case of the United Germany," in Feminist Nightmares: Women at Odds. An Anthology of Essays on the Problematics of Sisterhood, (eds.) Jennifer Fleischner and Susan Weisser, (New York: New York University Press,1994) pp.310-327

"On East European Feminism," Chronicle of Higher Education, February 2, 1994. 2 pages

"Abortion and the Unification of Germany," Gender Politics and Post-Communism (eds.) Nanette Funk and Magda Mueller (New York: Routledge, 1993) pp.194-200.

"Feminism East and West," Gender Politics and Post-Communism (eds.) Nanette Funk and Magda Mueller (New York: Routledge, 1993) pp.318-330. ----Reprinted in Chinese in [English Translation] Women: The Longest Revolution (Beijing, China) 1997. pp.243-260.

" Women and Post-Communism," Gender Politics and Post-Communism, (New York: Routledge Press, 1993) pp.1-14.

"Feminism and Post-Communism," in Hypatia, Vol 8., no.4. Fall, 1993. pp.85-88.

Editor of Special Section on East European Feminism, Hypatia, Vol.8, no.4, Fall, 1993.

"Feminismus Ost und West," [Feminism East and West] in Frauen in Osteuropa [Women in Eastern Europe] (Wiesbaden: Hessische Landeszentrale fuer politische Bilding) 1993, pp.182-201.

"Women Under Post-Communism," Against the Current, Vol. 8,1993 pp.30-34.

"Women in the New East Germany," in Peace and Democracy News, Vol.7, No.1, Summer, 1993.

"Feminism in the Former East Germany," Dissent, Spring, 1992. pp.152-155.

"Affirmative Action and Universality," in Socialism and Democracy. Vol. 8, Nos.2-3, 1992, pp.207-222.

"Strategies for an Examination of Issues in Affirmative Action," in Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy of APA Newsletter, Vol. 91., No.1, Spring, 1992 pp.168-170.

"Introduction and Three Interviews with Women in East Germany and Yugoslavia," Social Text (1991) pp. 88-122.

"Habermas and the Social Goods." In Social Text 18, Winter 1987\88 pp.19-37.

"Socialism and Democracy." In Socialism and Democracy, Spring\Summer 1987. pp.85-91.

"Mill and Censorship." In History of Philosophy Quarterly, Fall, 1984. pp.453-463.

"Reporters and a Free Press." In Applied Philosophy, Vol.2.No.1, Spring, 1984. pp. 85-97.

"A Sketch Towards a Socialist Theory of Rights." In Radical Philosopher's Newsletter, 1977. pp.

"Take It." In Semiotexte, June,1982. (On West Berlin Squatters) pp.292-300.

Three Articles on Legal Rights in West Germany in Info: West Germany, 1977-79. Each two pages.


Reviews

Review of Seyla Benhabib's Situating the Self, in Philosophical Review, Vol.103, No.3, (July, 1994) pp.562-4.

Review of Istvan Mezaros,Philosophy,Ideology and Social Science: Essays in Negation and Affirmation. In Philosophical Review, Vol. 98, No.4 (October,1989) pp. 573-576.

Review of Agnes Heller's A Radical Philosophy, in Philosophical Review, Vol.96 (July, 1987)pp.461-464.

Review of Juergen Habermas' The Theory of Communicative Action. In Philosophical Review, Vol. 95, No.2 (April,1986) pp. 272-275.

Review of Habermas' Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action, in Socialism and Democracy, 1992. pp.155-158.

"Obsessive Democracy".A Review of Carol Gould, Rethinking Democracy:Freedom,Social Cooperation in Politics, Economy and Society, and Frank Cunningham, Democratic Theory and Socialism. Telos 81 Fall,1989. pp.171-179.


Translations

Tatiana Boehm, "Women and Civil Society," Gender Politics and Post-Communism (eds.) Nanette Funk and Magda Mueller (New York: Routledge, 1993). (German to English). Moishe Zuckerman," The Use of the Holocaust in Israel Today,"Telos 1988 (German to English)


Work in Progress

Books

A Political and Ethical Theory of Gender and Postcommunism


Invited Presentations and Papers

“Feminist Criticisms of Liberalism: Can They Travel East,” University of Toronto, March 1, 2002


“Critical Theory, Gender and Globalization,” New York University Conference on Critical Theory, November,2001


“Women in the GDR and in the Unification of Germany,”Conference on The New Germany, The Center for Global change and Governance, Rutgers University, April 28, 2000


“Reproductive Rights and Transition,” Conference on Labor and Reproductive Rights, Remarque Institute, New York University, March 23, 2000


Commentator, Panel on Women in Eastern Europe, Ethnography Conference, Columbia University, February, 2000


Speaker, Panel on women in Eastern Europe, The Quilted Giraffe, New York City, Fall, 1999


"The Representations of Russian Women in the New York Times," Conference on Women and the Media, St. Petersburg, Russia, June, 1997.


Co-cordinator of five week section on Rights in Post-Communism, Rutgers Seminar on Gender and Transition, Fall, 1996.


"Critique of Rhoda Copelan's, `Domestic Abuse as Torture,'" Rutgers Seminar on Gender andTransition, Fall, 1996.


"The German Abortion Debate After Unification," Rutgers Seminar on Gender and Transition, Fall, 1996.


Commentator on Conception of Rights in Post-Communism, Rutgers Seminar on Gender and Transition, Fall, 1996.


"Zwischen Privaten und Oeffentlichem: Das neue Abtreibungsrecht in Deutschland," [ "Between the Public and the Private: The New German Abortion Law"], German Philosophical Associatoin, Leipzig, Germany, September, 1996.


"Feminism Across Borders- Possible or Impossible" German Political Science Convention, August, 1994.
Potsdam.


"Conflicts Between East European and Western Feminists," Panel on Women in Europe, Women's Studies. Graduate Center, CUNY March, 1994.


"Conflicts Between East and West German Women since the Unification of Germany," Columbia Women in Europe Group. February, 1994.


"Nationalism, Rights and the Individual. An Analysis of the differences between East and West Feminism," NYU Institute of Humanities, Seminar on Women, December 14,1993.


"Feminism East and West," Conference on Eastern European Women, Frankfurt, Germany, October, 1993.[In German]


"Reproductive Rights in the United Germany. An Analysis of the May,1993 German Constitutional Court Decision," at Women and Gender Relations Conference at Cornell University, October,1993.


"East German Women and the Unification. The Meaning of Discrimination," Helsinki Citizens Assembly, New York Group, September, 1993.


"German Women and Unification," Panel on Germany. Italian Cultural Institute, New York City. October, 1993.


"Catherine MacKinnon and Freedom of Speech," Political Theory Conference April,1993.


"Immigration and Germany," Socialist Scholars' Conference, April, 1993.


Commentary on Uta Kretschmer's Paper on Women in the Former GDR," at Conference, "GDR women and the Unification of Germany: Can You Make A State Without Women?" Conference April 15-18,1993. Goethe Institute, New York


"On Bat Ami's `On National Identity,'" Society for Philosophy and Feminism. New York, May, 1993.


"Right-wing Movements in Germany, Rutgers University Colloquium, March,1993.


"Women in Eastern Europe," Presented at: Colloquium on Women in Europe, NYU January, 1993; Socialist Scholars Conference, New York, Apr.1992


"Women in the Transition to a Reunited Germany, 1992" Brooklyn College, Co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Women's Studies program, December, 1992.


"Normative issues in Research on Women, East and West," Leipzig, Germany, November, 1992 [In German].


" Feminism, East and West," Center for Interdisciplinary Women's Research (ZiF) Humboldt University, Berlin, July,1992.


"German Unification and Women," Socialist Scholars' Conference, April, 1992.


" Women and the Transformation in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. An Analysis of the Issues," Society for Philosophy and Feminism. Boulder, Colorado. October, 1992.


"Gender Politics and Post-Communism," Columbia University Colloquium on Feminism, October, 1992.


" Institutional Discrimination: former GDR women and the German Unification," October, 1992, Columbia Faculty Seminar on Feminism; American Political Science Association, August, 1991.


"Abortion and the Unification of Germany," Summer Institute of New School for Social Research, in Krakow, Poland, July,1992.


"A Strange Case of Post-Modernist Architectural Photography: Bernd and Hilla Becher," Association for Art, Politics and Society. Jacksonville, Florida, 1991.


"The Aesthetics of the Photography of Bernd and Hilla Becher," Long Island University, May, 1990.


"The Frankfurt School and Affirmative Action," Telos Conference in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. February, 1990.


" CIA Recruiting on Campus and Free Speech." Socialist Scholars Conference Spring, 1990.


Commentator on Rodney Pfeffer's Analytic Marxism. Socialist Scholars Conference, April, 1988


"Benhabib's Defense of Habermas," International Dubrovnik Conference, Spring,1987.


"Democracy and Socialism," Socialist Scholars' Conference, April,1986


"Habermas and Social Goods," Brooklyn College Department Colloquia, December, 1985.


"The Aesthetics of Documentary in Film, Video and Photography:Introduction," Panel on Documentary in Film,Video and Photography, Socialist Scholars Conference, April,1985.


"Sanctions in the Professions", Discussant in Humanities Institute, Social Science Series, I, "Truth on Trial"1985


"Habermas and Political Organization: Organization and Political Parties," at Radical Caucus of the American Philosophical Association December 1984.


"Reporters and Free Speech," New York Chapter of Philosophy and Public Affairs, May, 1984.


"Mill and Censorship," First International Social and Political Philosophy Conference. Montreal, Canada. August, 1983.


"Marxism and Individual Rights," Radical Caucus of American Philosophical Association. December, 1978.


"Rights in Socialism, Activist Philosophy Conference, Spring, 1977.


"The Theory of the Party," Radical Caucus, American Philosophical Caucus, 1978.


"Marx's Grundrisse," Group on Western Marxist Theory, 1976.


"Habermas' Knowledge and Human Interests," Group on Western Marxist Theory, 1975.

Department of Philosophy

Brooklyn College, City University of New York