Dr Jacqueline Broad
B.A. (UTas), Ph.D. (Monash, 2000)
Email: Jacqueline.Broad@arts.monash.edu.au
Other contact details.
Current appointment:
Honorary Research Associate, Monash University
Research Interests:
- History of Women's Political Thought, 1400-1800
- Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century
- History of Philosophy (Descartes, Locke)
- Feminist Theory.
Recent Publications
Books
[With Karen Green], A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1400-1700 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in press for January 2009).
Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002). See reviews by John Rogers, Karen Detlefsen, and Margaret Atherton.
Edited book
Virtue, Liberty, and Toleration: Political Ideas of European Women, 1400-1800, co-edited with Karen Green (Dordrecht: Springer, forthcoming 2007).
Papers
'Margaret Cavendish and Joseph Glanvill: Science, Religion, and Witchcraft', Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 38, no. 3 (2007): 493-505.
'Liberty and the Right of Resistance: Women's Political Writings of the Civil War Era', in Virtue, Liberty, and Toleration: Political Ideas of European Women, 1400-1800, edited by Jacqueline Broad and Karen Green (Dordrecht: Springer, 2007), pp. 77-94.
'Astell, Cartesian Ethics, and the Critique of Custom', in Mary Astell: Reason, Gender, Faith, edited by William Kolbrener and Michal Michelson (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), pp. 165-179.
[Co-written with Karen Green], 'Fictions of a Feminine Philosophical Persona: Christine de Pizan, Margaret Cavendish, and Philosophia Lost', in The Philosopher in Early Modern Europe: The Nature of a Contested Identity, edited by Conal Condren, Stephen Gaukroger, and Ian Hunter, Ideas in Context series (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 229-253.
'Female Philosophers', in The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy, edited by Anthony Grayling and Andrew Pyle (Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2006), vol. II, pp. 1066-69.
'A Woman's Influence? John Locke and Damaris Masham on Moral Accountability', Journal of the History of Ideas 67, no. 3 (2006): 489-510.
[Co-written with Karen Green and Helen Prosser], 'Emasculating Metaphor: Whither the Maleness of Reason?', in Feminist Alliances, edited by Lynda Burns (Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 2006), pp. 91-108.
'Adversaries or Allies? Occasional Thoughts on the Masham-Astell Exchange',Eighteenth-Century Thought 1 (2003): 123-49. (Abstract)
'English Women Philosophers and the Origins of Modernity', Intellectual News: Review of the International Society for Intellectual History, 13 (2003): 27-37.
'Mary Astell', in British Philosophers 1500-1899, edited by Philip B. Dematteis and Peter Fosl, Dictionary of Literary Biography 252 (2002): 3-10.
Reviews
'Patricia Springborg's Mary Astell: Theorist of Freedom from Domination' [Review], The American Historical Review, vol. 113 (2008): 572-73.
'Judith P. Zinsser (ed.), Men, Women, and the Birthing of Modern Science' [Review], The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 40, nos. 1 and 2 (2007-08): 188-90.
'Women and Nature: A New Historical Perspective', [Review of Sylvia Bowerbank's Speaking For Nature], Metascience 15 (2006): 113-116.
'Women in the History of Science' [Review of Patricia Fara's Pandora's Breeches], Metascience 15 (2006): 303-6.
'Nathaniel Culverwell, An Elegant and Learned Discourse, and Samuel Pufendorf, The Whole Duty of Man' [Review], The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats, vol. 37, no. 2 & vol. 38, no. 1 (2005): 167-8.
'Cavendish Redefined' [review article], British Journal for the History of Philosophy 12, no. 4 (2004): 731-41.
Forthcoming
'Damaris Masham on Women and Liberty of Conscience', in Feminist History of Philosophy, edited by Eileen O'Neill and Marcy Lascano (Dordrecht: Springer, forthcoming 2009).
'Mary Astell: Liberty of Judgment for Women', in Geschlechterordnung and Politische Ordnung, edited by Friederike Kuster and Marion Heinz (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, forthcoming 2009).
'Margaret Cavendish, Jan Baptista van Helmont, and the Madness of the Womb', in Foreshadowing Frankenstein: The New Science and Women's Literary Discourse, edited by Judy Hayden (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2009).
'Mary Astell's Machiavellian Moment? Politics and Feminism in 'A Prefatory Discourse to Dr D'Aveanant', in Early Modern Women Testing Ideas, edited by Paul Salzman (Aldershot: Ashgate, forthcoming).
Recent conference/seminar papers
- "Margaret Cavendish and Joseph Glanvill: Science, Religion and Witchcraft', presented at EMPHASIS (Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination Seminar), Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 4 March 2006.
- "Descartes, Animals and Thought', presented at the Institute of Philosophy weekly seminar, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 9 March 2006.
- "Early Modern Women's Philosophy and Enlightenment Descartes', presented at "Women, Metaphysics and Enlightenment, 1660-1789' mini-conference, Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 24 March 2006.
- "Liberty and the Right of Resistance: Women's Political Writings of the Civil War Era', presented at the conference, Toward a History of Women's Political Thought: 1400-1800, hosted by Monash University, Melbourne, 12 July 2005.
- "Fictions of a Feminine Philosophical Persona: Christine de Pizan and Margaret Cavendish Compared', with Karen Green, presented at the "Persona of the Philosopher in Early Modern Europe', the University of Queensland, 7-8 July 2004.
- "A Woman's Influence? Damaris Masham and John Locke', presented at the "John Locke Conference', Griffith University, 12-14 July 2004.
- "Descartes, Animals and Thought', presented at the "Mindful Things' seminar series at Monash University, July 2003. (Mindful Things project).
- "Adversaries or Allies? Occasional Thoughts on the Masham-Astell exchange', presented at an invited symposium on "Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Women Philosophers' at the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association meeting in Seattle, 29 March 2002.
- "Margaret Cavendish's Panpsychism: A Bridge between Ancient and Modern Philosophy of Mind', presented at the "Mindful Things' seminar series at Monash University, July 2002.
Current projects
I am currently writing a paper on 'Mary Astell and Friendship' for a special November 2009 volume of Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies. I am also in the early stages of preparing a critical edition of Mary Astell's The Christian Religion as Profess'd by a Daughter of the Church of England for The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe Series.
Recent teaching
- Ethical Issues in Patient Care (CHB4203, CHB5203)
- Questions of Life and Death (CHB5102, CHB4102)
- Origins of Modern Philosophy A: Descartes (PHL2110)
- Feminist Philosophers (PHL2230).
- Life, Death, and Morality (PHL1070)
- Time, Self and Freedom & Primary Logic (PHL1080).