Genevieve Lloyd

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Genevieve Lloyd is an Australian philosopher and feminist who is best known work is Man of Reason: ‘Male’ and ‘Female’ in Western Philosophy.^[1]

Genevieve was born on 16 Oct 1941 in Cootamundra, New South Wales, Australia. Genevieve Lloyd studied philosophy at the University of Sydney and then at Somerville College, Oxford. Her D.Phil, awarded in 1973, was on Time and Tense. From 1967 until 1987 she lectured at the Australian National University, and it was during this period that she developed her most influential ideas and wrote The Man of Reason: "Male" and "Female" in Western Philosophy, which was published in 1984. In 1987 she was appointed to the Chair of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales and was the first female professor of philosophy appointed in Australia.[1] She was appointed Emeritus Professor upon her retirement.

[edit] Bibliography

• The Man of Reason: ‘Male’ and ‘Female’ in Western Philosophy. (Routledge, 1984; 1986) ISBN 0415096812
• Being in Time: Selves and Narrators in Philosophy and Literature. (Routledge, 1993) ISBN 9780415071963
• Part of Nature: Self-Knowledge in Spinoza's Ethics. (Cornell University, 1994) ISBN 9780801429996
• Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Spinoza and the Ethics. (Routledge, 1996) ISBN 9780415107822
• With Moira Gatens, Collective Imaginings: Spinoza, Past and Present. (Routledge, 1999) ISBN 9780415165716
• Spinoza: Critical Assessments. (Edited) (Routledge, 2001) ISBN 9780415186223
• Feminism and History of Philosophy. (Edited) (OUP, 2002) ISBN 978-0-19-924374-7

[edit] External links

• Help Sheet on Genevieve Lloyd
• Women of Philosophy, Stirring Up The Pot Transcript of talk
• Waking Sleeping Beauty Honours thesis discussing Lloyd on Descartes

[edit] References

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NAME	Harrison, Jennifer
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SHORT DESCRIPTION	Contemporary Australian feminist philosopher
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PLACE OF BIRTH	Australia
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