| Moira GatensFAHA FASSA | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1954-06-30) 30 June 1954 (age 70) Sydney, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of New South Wales (Ph.D) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Sydney |
| Main interests | Feminist philosophy, Political philosophy, Philosophy and Literature |
Moira Gatens FAHA FASSA is an Australian academic feminist philosopher and current Challis Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. She previously held the Spinoza Chair at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Biography
Academic career
Gatens served as president of the Australasian Association of Philosophy in 2011. She was appointed in her current position as Challis Professor of Philosophy in 2012.
Gatens was elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 1999 and of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2010.
Select publications
- Feminism and Philosophy: Perspectives on Difference and Equality United Kingdom, Polity Press, 1991 ISBN 9780745604701
- Imaginary Bodies: Ethics, Power and Corporeality. United Kingdom: Routledge, 1996. ISBN 978-0415082105
- Feminist Interpretations of Benedict Spinoza. United States: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009. ISBN 9780271035161
- Spinoza's Hard Path to Freedom. Assen, Netherlands, Royal Van Gorcum, 2011. ISBN 9789023249399
References
- "CfH Lectures, Speakers, Moira Gatens". Utrecht University, Netherlands. 27 May 2010. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
- "Professor Moira Gatens". University of Sydney, Australia. 11 April 2013. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
- "Academy Fellow: Professor Moira Gatens FASSA, FAHA". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Retrieved 7 October 2020.
- "Fellow Profile: Moira Gatens". Australian Academy of the Humanities. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
External links
- Moira Gatens at University of Sydney
Further reading
- Walsh, Mary (1 July 2004). "Twenty years since 'a critique of the sex/gender distinction': a conversation with Moira Gatens". Australian Feminist Studies. 19 (44): 213–224. doi:10.1080/0816464042000226447. ISSN 0816-4649. S2CID 145425374.
- Feminist Legal Studies: Revisiting the Continental Shelf: Moira Gatens on Law, Religion, and Human Rights in Eliot, Feuerbach, and Spinoza. doi:10.1007/s10691-011-9167-4
- Laurie, Timothy (2019), 'Thinking Without Monsters: The Role of Philosophy in Moira Gatens'
- Richardson-Self, Louise (2019), 'Reflections on Imagination and Embodiment in the Work of Moira Gatens, 1983-2008'
- Laurie, Timothy (2019), "Thinking Without Monsters: The Role of Philosophy in Moira Gatens", Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy, 30
- Richardson-Self, Louise (2019), "Reflections on Imagination and Embodiment in the Work of Moira Gatens, 1983-2008", Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy, 30
- Living people
- Fellows of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
- University of New South Wales alumni
- Academic staff of the Australian National University
- Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
- Academic staff of the University of Sydney
- Challis professor
- Australian women philosophers
- 20th-century Australian philosophers
- 21st-century Australian philosophers
- Postmodern feminists
- Scholars of feminist philosophy
- Australian political philosophers
- Spinoza scholars
- 1954 births