Ann Ferguson

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title: "Ann Ferguson" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1938-births", "living-people", "21st-century-american-philosophers", "scholars-of-feminist-philosophy", "university-of-massachusetts-amherst-faculty", "american-women-philosophers", "american-academics-of-women's-studies", "20th-century-american-philosophers", "intersectional-feminism", "feminist-theorists", "critical-theorists", "21st-century-american-women"] description: "American philosopher" topic_path: "philosophy" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Ferguson" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary American philosopher ::

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name	Ann Ferguson
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education	BA, 1959, Swarthmore College
PhD, 1965, Brown University
thesis_title	Some philosophical problems concerning action and desire.
thesis_year	1965
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main_interests	Feminist theory
institutions	University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Career

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After earning her PhD from Brown University, Ferguson joined the faculty at the University of Massachusetts Amherst as a lecturer. In 1967, Ferguson began to help her students access then-illegal abortions. By 1995, she was appointed Director of Women's Studies for a three-year term.

She established the Ann Ferguson Women and Gender Studies Scholarship in 2007 before retiring.

Selected books

References

References

1. "Ferguson, Ann". Library of Congress.
2. "Ferguson, Ann".
3. (September 22, 2006). "Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975". University of Illinois Press.
4. (2007). "FROM THE DIRECTOR'S CHAIR".

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