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Rose Owen is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Politics at The New School for Social Research. Her work is situated at the intersection of feminist theory, theories of violence, and democratic social movements. Her first book project, Feminist Violence: Rape and Militancy in the Second Wave, explores how feminist theorists and activists transformed the concept of violence in the mid-twentieth century. 

Rose holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago, and a BA in Political Science from Wellesley College. Her research has been been supported by the Mellon Foundation and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at the University of Chicago. You can read her recent writing in New Political Science and Contemporary Political Theory. 

Recent Publications

“A World without Men: Valerie Solanas and the Feminist Uses of Violence” New Political Science 44, n. 1 (2022): 1-17. Republished in ed. Kevin Duong, Violence: A Reappraisal. New York: Routledge, 2023.

“Introduction” and “The #MeToo Movement, Heteropessimism, and the Promise of Feminist Violence” in “Sexualized Violence and Feminist Counter-Violence,” Contemporary Political Theory Critical Exchange, online first May 31^st (2023). 

A Feminist Theory of Refusal by Bonnie Honig (book review), Contemporary Political Theory, online first September 28^th (2022).