Michigan State University

Department of Philosophy

Degree:	Ph.D., Cornell, 1969
Teaching Areas:	Feminist Philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language
Interests:	Professor Frye is author of The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory and Willful Virgin: Essays in Feminism 1976-1992. Topics of recent interest: what categories are, social categories, race and gender categories, essentialism, ethnocentrism. "The Necessity of Differences: Constructing a Positive Category of Women," in SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Vol.21, No.3, Summer 1996. "Essentialism/Ethnocentrism: The Failure of the Ontological Cure," in Is Academic Feminism Dead? Theory in Practice, edited by the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies at the University of Minnesota. NYU Press, 2000. "Categories and Dichotomies;" in Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories edited by Loraine Code. NY:Routledge, 2000. "Categories in Distress," in Feminist Interventions in Ethics and Politics, eds., Barbara Andrew, Jean Keller Lisa Schwartzman. Rowman and Littlefield, Spring 2005.
Address:	College of Arts and Letters Michigan State University 206 Linton Hall East Lansing, MI 48824-1044 Email: fryem@msu.edu Telephone: (517) 353-5360