Moira Gatens Explained

Moira Gatens
Birth Date:	1954 6, df=yes
Birth Place:	Sydney, Australia
Nationality:	Australian
Occupation:	Professor
Alma Mater:	University of New South Wales (Ph.D)
Workplaces:	University of Sydney
Main Interests:	Feminist philosophy, Political philosophy, Philosophy and Literature

Moira Gatens 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.^{[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
• Imaginary Bodies: Ethics, Power and Corporeality. United Kingdom: Routledge, 1996.
• Feminist Interpretations of Benedict Spinoza. United States: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009.
• Spinoza's Hard Path to Freedom. Assen, Netherlands, Royal Van Gorcum, 2011.

External links

• Moira Gatens at University of Sydney

Further reading

• Walsh. Mary. 2004-07-01. Twenty years since 'a critique of the sex/gender distinction': a conversation with Moira Gatens. Australian Feminist Studies. 19. 44. 213–224. 10.1080/0816464042000226447. 145425374. 0816-4649.
• Feminist Legal Studies

Revisiting the Continental Shelf: Moira Gatens on Law, Religion, and Human Rights in Eliot, Feuerbach, and Spinoza.

• 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'

Notes and References

1. Web site: CfH Lectures, Speakers, Moira Gatens. Utrecht University, Netherlands. 8 January 2018 . 27 May 2010.
2. Web site: Professor Moira Gatens. University of Sydney, Australia. 8 January 2018 . 11 April 2013.
3. Web site: Academy Fellow: Professor Moira Gatens FASSA, FAHA. 2020-10-07. Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. en-US.
4. Web site: Fellow Profile: Moira Gatens . 2024-07-08 . Australian Academy of the Humanities . en-AU.