Genevieve Mary Lloyd (born 16 October 1941 at
Cootamundra, New South Wales
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), is an Australian
philosopher
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and
feminist
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.
Biography
Lloyd studied philosophy at the
University of Sydney
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in the early 1960s and then at
Somerville College, Oxford
Somerville College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England, was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall, one of its first two women's colleges. Among its alumnae have been Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi, Dorothy Hodgkin, Ir ...
. Her
D.Phil
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, awarded in 1973, was on "Time and Tense". From 1967 until 1987 she lectured at the
Australian National University
The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies and ...
, during which period she developed her most influential ideas and wrote ''
The Man of Reason
''The Man of Reason: "Male" and "Female" in Western Philosophy'' (1984; second edition 1993) is a book about the association between maleness and reason in western philosophy by the Australian philosopher Genevieve Lloyd. The work received positi ...
'', which was published in 1984. In 1987 she was appointed to the chair of philosophy at the
University of New South Wales
The University of New South Wales (UNSW), also known as UNSW Sydney, is a public research university based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the founding members of Group of Eight, a coalition of Australian research-intensive ...
, being the first female professor of philosophy appointed in Australia.
[Lloyd, Genevieve (1941–)]
''Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' Macmillan Reference USA, cited at BookRags On retirement, she was appointed
Professor
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Emerita.
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External links
Help Sheet on Genevieve LloydReport of talk
Waking Sleeping BeautyHonours thesis discussing Lloyd on
Descartes
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1941 births
Living people
Australian non-fiction writers
Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford
University of Sydney alumni
Australian National University faculty
University of New South Wales faculty
Australian women philosophers
Feminist philosophers
20th-century Australian philosophers
21st-century Australian philosophers
Australian feminist writers
Spinoza scholars
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