Genevieve Mary Lloyd (born 16 October 1941 at

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), is an Australian

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and

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Biography

Lloyd studied philosophy at the

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in the early 1960s and then at

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. Her

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, awarded in 1973, was on "Time and Tense". From 1967 until 1987 she lectured at the

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, 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

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, 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

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Emerita.

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