Moira Gatens

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.

Moira Gatens FAHA FASSA
Born	(1954-06-30) 30 June 1954 (age 71) Sydney, Australia
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

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.^[1][2]

Gatens was elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 1999^[3] and of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2010.^[4]

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

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'^[5]
• Richardson-Self, Louise (2019), 'Reflections on Imagination and Embodiment in the Work of Moira Gatens, 1983-2008'^[6]