Genevieve Lloyd

Genevieve Mary Lloyd (born 16 October 1941) is an Australian philosopher and feminist. She studied philosophy at the University of Sydney and Somerville College, Oxford, where she was awarded her D.Phil in 1973 for her thesis on "Time and Tense". From 1967 to 1987, she lectured at the Australian National University, during which time she developed her influential ideas and wrote "The Man of Reason", published in 1984. In 1987, she became the first female professor of philosophy in Australia when she was appointed to the chair of philosophy at the University of New South Wales. She was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1995. Upon retirement, she was appointed Professor Emerita. Lloyd's philosophical work, particularly her book "The Man of Reason" (1984), explores the influence of seventeenth-century rationalist philosophy on contemporary views of gender and reason. She argues that the Cartesian method contributed to a polarization between reason, emotion, and imagination, and that the ideal of the "Man of Reason" continues to shape our thinking.