Dr Jacqueline Broad
B.A. (UTas), Ph.D. (Monash, 2000)
Email: Jacqueline.Broad@monash.edu
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Current appointment:
Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Monash University
Research Interests:
- Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century (esp. Mary Astell)
- History of Early Modern Philosophy (Descartes, Locke)
- History of Feminism
I am willing to supervise postgraduate research in any of the above areas. If you have a project in mind, please get in touch.
Select Recent Publications
Books
A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1400-1700, co-authored with Karen Green (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
Virtue, Liberty, and Toleration: Political Ideas of European Women, 1400-1800, co-edited with Karen Green (Dordrecht: Springer, 2007).
Forthcoming
Jacqueline Broad, ‘Impressions in the Brain: Malebranche on Women, Women on Malebranche’, Intellectual History Review 22:3 (forthcoming 2012).
Jacqueline Broad, ‘Women, Mechanical Science, and God in the Early Modern Period’, in The Blackwell Companion to Science and Christianity, edited by James Stump and Alan Padgett (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, forthcoming).
Jacqueline Broad, ‘Damaris Masham on Women and Liberty of Conscience’, in Feminist History of Philosophy, edited by Eileen O’Neill and Marcy Lascano (Dordrecht: Springer, forthcoming).
Jacqueline Broad, ‘Is Margaret Cavendish worthy of study today?’ [Essay Review of Lisa Sarasohn’s The Natural Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish], Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (in press, available online).
Papers
Jacqueline Broad, ‘Mary Astell’s Machiavellian Moment? Politics and Feminism in Moderation Truly Stated’, in Early Modern Englishwomen Testing Ideas, edited by Jo Wallwork and Paul Salzman (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011), pp. 9-23.
Jacqueline Broad, ‘Cavendish, van Helmont, and the Mad Raging Womb’, in The New Science and Women’s Literary Discourse: Prefiguring Frankenstein, edited by Judy A. Hayden (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. 47-63.
‘Mary Astell on Virtuous Friendship', Parergon 26, no. 2 (2009): 65-86.
'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.
Current Projects
I am currently engaged in a large ARC-funded project on the philosophy of seventeenth-century feminist, Mary Astell (1666-1731). As part of this project, I am preparing a critical edition of 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.
I recently completed a chapter on ‘Mary Astell and the Virtues’ for the Feminist Interpretations of Mary Astell volume in Pennsylvania State University Press’s ‘Re-Reading the Canon’ series. I also presented a paper on ‘Mary Astell on Women and Slavery’ at the ‘Understanding Political Agency’ conference in Malmo, Sweden, in May 2011.