Why Universalism?

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  • Alison Assiter
  • Alison Assiter

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https://doi.org/10.31273/fd.n1.2016.7

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  • Alison Assiter
    Alison Assiter is Professor of Feminist Theory at UWE, Bristol, the author of a number of books and articles and also feminist and anti fundamentalist activist. Her latest book is Kierkegaard, Eve and Metaphors of Birth, published by Rowman and Littlefield in May 2015.

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