Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Ph.D. University of Chicago 1970

Phone: 312-413-2185
Fax: 312-413-0440
E-Mail: balbus@uic.edu

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Fields of Interest:

Political Theory: Feminism, Psychoanalysis, Ecology, Critical Theory

Selected Publications:

Marxism and Domination, (Princeton University Press, 1982).
The Dialectics of Legal Repression, (Russell Sage Foundation, 1973).

"De-Kleining Feminist Mothering Theory?", Theory & Society, 21 (1992), 817-835.

"Disciplining Women: Michel Foucault and the Power of Feminist Discourse", in Seyla Benhabib and Drucilla Cornell, eds., Feminism as Critique, (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1987),110-127.

"The Missing Dimension: Self-Reflexivity and the 'New Sensibility'", in John Bokina and Timothy J. Lukes, eds., Marcuse: From the New Left to the Next Left, (University of Kansas Press, 1994), 106-117.

Emotional Rescue: The Theory and Practice of a Feminist Father. (Routledge, 1998).

Mourning and Modernity:  Essays in the Psychoanalysis of Contemporary
Society (Other Press, 2005).

Current Research Areas:

A psychoanalytically informed study of Fundamentalism.

Selected Activities and Honors: