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    Elizabeth Frazer

    contemporaryFeminist Political Philosophy

    Elizabeth Frazer is a British political theorist at the University of Oxford whose work critically engages liberal individualism, communitarianism, and feminist political philosophy. She is best known for co-authoring 'The Politics of Community: A Feminist Critique of the Liberal-Communitarian Debate' (1993) with Nicola Lacey, which challenged both atomistic liberal and communitarian frameworks. Her scholarship spans political education, civic republicanism, and the social constitution of the self.

    Notable Achievements

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    Co-authored 'The Politics of Community' (1993), a landmark feminist critique of the liberal-communitarian debate

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    Argued that atomistic conceptions of the self destabilize the social conditions liberal societies depend upon

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    Advanced feminist analyses of citizenship, political identity, and civic life

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    Contributed to theories of political education and the formation of civic subjectivity

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    Developed critiques of both liberal individualism and unreflective communitarian appeals to tradition

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    Rights & Liberty

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    The atomistic view of the self can undermine liberal society

    Social Contract

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    The atomistic view of the self can undermine liberal society

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