Ethically and politically it is important to face up to the need for a universal perspective in our divided, multi-cultural, unequal and unjust world.

- Alison Assiter

However, within the limits of the human, it is important to recognise our common humanity. I think that a perspective based on common human needs has…

- Alison Assiter

When it comes to deep and difficult ethical matters - such as the relation of an individual to God, or, I think, an individual caught up in the subli…

- Alison Assiter

If there are more than two sexes, then so be it and, of course, the assumption that there are two helps shape, as many have argued, the binary logic …

- Alison Assiter

The subject of feminism cannot be purely a fiction, as some postmodern writers suggest, produced by the discourses of power.

- Alison Assiter

Whatever the universal perspective one adopts, it is important to recognise that some form of universalism is politically and ethically necessary.

- Alison Assiter

I believe that a concept that may have some flaws is nonetheless important as a tool to critique abuses on all sides of the political spectrum. In th…

- Alison Assiter

I think that both pornography and the imposition (common in some areas of the world) of a dress code on women are problematic.

- Alison Assiter

The universal basis for the categorisation 'woman' will, no doubt, be constantly shifting but it is important not to deny it's existence altogether. …

- Alison Assiter