Christine Battersby

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(born 3 March 1946) is a British philosopher and Reader Emerita in

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at the

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. She was the visiting Fleishhacker Chair of Philosophy at the

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during April 2013. Battersby is a Fellow of the

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. She is known for her research on feminist aesthetics.

Books

* ''The Sublime, Terror and Human Difference'', Routledge, 2007 * ''The Phenomenal Woman: Feminist Metaphysics and the Patterns of Identity'', Routledge, 1998 * ''Gender and Genius: Towards a Feminist Aesthetics'', Indiana University Press, 1990

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Christine Battersby at the University of Warwick
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