Professor Moira Gatens
moira.gatens@arts.usyd.edu.au
Room S443, Main Quad A14
Ph +612 9351 2468
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Biographical Information
Social and political philosophy, ethics, 17th century philosophy (especially Spinoza), feminist theory.
Research Grants, Fellowships and Awards
Professor Gatens became a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 1999. She has held several ARC grants, most recently for a team project on Rights and Norms (2002-04).
In May-June 2003 Professor Gatens was the STICERD Distinguished Visiting Professor at the LSE, UK. In Semester 1, 2005 she was Scots Philosophical Society Centenary Fellow (March) and the Erskine Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Christchurch, New Zealand (May).
Publications (Books and Book Chapters)
Books
2001 Feminism si Filosofie: Perspective asupra diferentei si egalitatii, trans. Olivia Rusu-Toderean, Bucuresti, Polirom, pp. 232 [trans. Feminism and Philosophy, 1991]
1999 Collective Imaginings: Spinoza, Past and Present, London and New York: Routledge, 1999 [with G. Lloyd]
Reviews: ‘asks us to look at Spinoza in new and creative ways.’ ‘a book as stimulating and competent as this one - should be welcomed.’ Stephen Nadler (Mind, 2000); ‘important .. new reading .. opens wide the doors to a new, promising approach to work on Spinoza .. further studies on Spinoza will not be able to ignore this work.’ Steven Barbone, Australasian Journal of Philosophy (vol 79, 3, 2001); subject of ‘Review Essay: Reading Spinoza Today’, C. Williams, Contemporary Political Theory, 1, 3, pp. 371-88
1996 Imaginary Bodies: Ethics, Power and Corporeality, London and New York: Routledge, 1996
Awards: selected for “Author meets Critics” session at Annual Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy, Washington, DC, 1996. ‘Epilogue’ reprinted in The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader, ed. A. Jones London: Routledge, 2003, pp. 466-70.
Feminism and Philosophy: Perspectives on Difference and Equality, Cambridge: Polity Press & Indiana University Press, 1991 (reprinted: 1993, 1995)
Book Chapters
2004 *‘Privacy and the Body: The Publicity of Affect’ in Privacies: Philosophical Evaluations, ed. B Roessler, Stanford University Press, pp. 113-32
2003 *‘Beauvoir and Biology: A Second Look’ in C. Card, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Simone de Beauvoir, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 266-85
‘Epilogue’ to Imaginary Bodies: Ethics, Power and Corporeality [1996] reprinted in The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader, ed. A. Jones London, Routledge, pp. 466-70
2002 'Post-Colonialism and History: Are We Responsible for the Past?' in J. Swearingen, J. Cutting-Gray, eds. Extreme Beauty: Aesthetics, Politics, Death, New York, London, Continuum, pp. 142-151
*‘The Politics of “Presence” and “Difference”: Working Through Spinoza and Eliot’, in Visible Women: Essays on Feminist Legal Theory and Political Philosophy, eds. S. James and S. Palmer, Oxford: Hart Publishing, pp. 159-174
Publications (Journal Articles)
2004 *‘Can Human Rights Accommodate Women’s Rights? Towards an Embodied Account of Social Norms, Social Meaning, and Cultural Change’ Contemporary Political Theory, Vol 3, pp. 275-99
‘Twenty years since “A Critique of the sex/gender Distinction”: a conversation with Moira Gatens’ [with Mary Walsh], Australian Feminist Studies, Vol 19, No 44, pp. 213-24
2003 *‘Imagination, Power and Freedom’ Arts: Journal of the Sydney University Arts Association, Vol 23, pp. 9-25
*‘Freedom and Determinism in Middlemarch, or Dorothea the Lunatic’ Sydney Studies in English, Vol 29, pp. 31-38
2002 ‘If Mutual Obligation is the Answer, What is the Question?’ in Australian Journal of Social Issues, Vol 37, No 3, pp. 225-245, (with D. Mitchell and V. Braithwaite)
Conferences
Professor Gatens regularly presents research papers at international professional conferences, including: the American Political Science Association, the American Philosophical Association, and the International Association for Philosophy and Literature.
She has been an invited keynote speaker on many occasions, including: the Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin; the Spinoza Society of Netherlands, Erasmus University; The University of Amsterdam and the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis; 15th Annual Spindel Conference, Memphis; and the Offenes Kulturhaus, Austria.