Drucilla Cornell

Drucilla Cornell (born June 16, 1950 ) is an American professor of law , women's studies and political science . Prior to her college career, she worked as a trade unionist for United Auto Workers , United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, and the International Union of Electrical Workers, and in California, New Jersey, and New York. She then studied first to 1978 for a BA in philosophy and mathematics at Antioch College and finally received her doctorate in 1981 in law for JD at the University of California, Los Angeles . Cornell first taught at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law between 1989 and 1994, where he organized various conferences on law and deconstruction that are considered pioneering in the field. Her research interests include critical theory , feminism, and postmodern ethics, and more recently, African humanism and Ubuntu . She also wrote the plays The Dream Cure and Background Interference , which were performed in New York and Los Angeles. She has lived and worked in Cape Town since 2008, where she previously held various teaching positions.

Works

Symbolic Forms for a New Humanity: Cultural and Racial Reconfigurations of Critical Theory (with Kenneth Michael Panfilio) Fordham University Press, 2010.
Clint Eastwood and Issues of American Masculinity . Fordham University Press 2009
Moral Images of Freedom: A Future for Critical Theory Fordham University Press, 2007.
Defending Ideals: War, Democracy, and Political Struggles Routledge, 2004.
Between Women and Generations: Legacies of Dignity Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
At the Heart of Freedom: Feminism, Sex, and Equality . Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1998.
The Imaginary Domain: Abortion, Pornography and Sexual Harrassment . New York: Routledge, 1995.
Feminist Contentions: A Philosophical Exchange . (with Seyla Benhabib, Judith Butler, and Nancy Fraser) New York: Routledge, 1994.
Transformations: Recollective Imagination and Sexual Difference . New York: Routledge, 1993.
The Philosophy of the Limit . New York: Routledge, 1992.1
Beyond Accommodation: Ethical Feminism, Deconstruction, and the Law . Routledge, New York 1991. Available on Google Books .

The Dignity Jurisprudence of the South African Constitutional Court (with Stu Woolman, Sam Fuller, Jason Brickhill, Michael Bishop and Diana Dunbar) Fordham University Press, 2012.
uBuntu and the Law: Indigenous Ideals and Postapartheid Jurisprudence (with Nyoko Muvangua) Fordham University Press, 2011
Feminism and Pornography . Oxford Univ. Press, 2000.
Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice . (with Michel Rosenfeld and David G. Carlson) New York: Routledge, 1992.
Hegel and Legal Theory . (with Michel Rosenfeld and David Gray Carlson) New York: Routledge, 1991.
Feminism as Critique: Essays on the Politics of Gender in Late-Capitalist Societies . (with Seyla Benhabib) Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987.

Rethinking Ethical Feminism and Sexual Politics Through uBuntu May 15, 2012, ICI Berlin
Keynote (part 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ) for the event Performatives after Deconstruction , June 30, 2010 London Graduate School
Keynote speech at the Feminist Theory Workshop 2009 at Duke University

personal data
SURNAME	Cornell, Drucilla
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American professor of law, women's studies, and political science
DATE OF BIRTH	June 16, 1950