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  1. Imaginary Bodies: Ethics, Power and Corporeality.Moira Gatens - 1995 - New York: Routledge.
    Moira Gatens investigates the ways in which differently sexed bodies can occupy the same social or political space. Representations of sexual difference have unacknowledged philosophical roots which cannot be dismissed as a superficial bias on the part of the philosopher, nor removed without destroying the coherence of the philosophical system concerned. The deep structural bias against women extends beyond metaphysics and its effects are felt in epistemology, moral, social and political theory. The idea of sexual difference is contextualised in _Imaginary (...)
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    Collective Imaginings: Spinoza, Past and Present.Moira Gatens & Genevieve Lloyd - 1999 - New York: Routledge. Edited by Genevieve Lloyd.
    Why would the work of the 17th century philosopher Benedict de Spinoza concern us today? How can Spinoza shed any light on contemporary thought? In this intriguing book, Moira Gatens and Genevieve Lloyd show us that in spite of or rather because of Spinoza's apparent strangeness, his philosophy can be a rich resource for cultural self-understanding in the present. _Collective Imaginings_ draws on recent re-assessments of the philosophy of Spinoza to develop new ways of conceptualising issues of freedom and difference. (...)
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  3. Imaginary Bodies: Ethics, Power and Corporeality.Moira Gatens - 1997 - Hypatia 12 (4):217-222.
     
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  4. Feminism and philosophy: perspectives on difference and equality.Moira Gatens - 1991 - Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
    This extremely accessible textbook provides a wide-ranging analysis of the relations between philosophy and feminist thought. Examining not only feminist critiques of philosophical ideas, Gatens also looks at the ways in which feminist theory can be informed by philosophical analysis and debates. Gatens adopts an historical approach, beginning with an analysis of Mary Wollstonecraft's critique of Rousseau. She then examines attempts by Harriet Taylor and J. S. Mill to extend liberal principles to women's situation. Other chapters discuss the work of (...)
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  5. Collective Imaginings: Spinoza, Past and Present.Moira Gatens & Genevieve Lloyd - 2001 - Philosophical Quarterly 51 (203):257-258.
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  6. Spinoza: thoughts on hope in our political present.Moira Gatens, Justin Steinberg, Aurelia Armstrong, Susan James & Martin Saar - 2021 - Contemporary Political Theory 20 (1):200-231.
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    Mark Sacks Lecture 2013: Spinoza on Goodness and Beauty and the Prophet and the Artist.Moira Gatens - 2015 - European Journal of Philosophy 23 (1):1-16.
    Some critics have claimed that Spinoza's philosophy has nothing to offer aesthetics. I argue that within his conception of an ars vivendi one can discern a nascent theory of art. I bring the figure of the prophet in relation to that of the artist and, alongside a consideration of Spinoza's views on goodness and beauty, show that the special talent of the artist should be understood in terms of the entirely natural expression of the conatus.
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    (1 other version)Feminism and Philosophy: Perspectives on Difference and Equality.Helen E. Longino & Moira Gatens - 1993 - Philosophical Review 102 (3):405.
    Summarizes author’s contextual empiricism and uses it to analyze the difference between neuro-endocrinological accounts of presumed behavioral sex differences and neuro-selectionist accounts. Contextual empiricism is a philosophical approach that both shows how feminist critique works in the sciences and makes a contribution to general philosophy of science.
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    Spinoza and Poetic Thinking.Moira Gatens - 2023 - Australasian Philosophical Review 7 (1):28-36.
    Spinoza scholars disagree about the role and value of the imagination in his philosophy. The notion of ‘beings of reason’ poses interesting questions about what fiction and poetry can contribute to philosophical thought. What are the pros and cons of imaginative and poetic thought and how do these relate to analogical versus deductive reasoning? These questions are treated in the context of Spinoza’s practical as well as speculative philosophy. It is concluded that beings of reason are unsuitable for use in (...)
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    Compelling Fictions: Spinoza and George Eliot on Imagination and Belief.Moira Gatens - 2012 - European Journal of Philosophy 20 (1):74-90.
    Spinoza took it to be an important psychological fact that belief cannot be compelled. At the same time, he was well aware of the compelling power that religious and political fictions can have on the formation of our beliefs. I argue that Spinoza allows that there are ‘good’ and ‘bad’ fictions. His complex account of the imagination and fiction, and their disabling or enabling roles in gaining knowledge of Nature, is a site of disagreement among commentators. The novels of George (...)
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  11. Collective Imaginings.Moira Gatens & Genevieve Lloyd - 2000 - Mind 109 (436):904-907.
  12. The Power of Spinoza: Feminist Conjunctions: Susan James Interviews.Genevieve Lloyd & Moira Gatens - 2000 - Hypatia 15 (2):40 - 58.
    As a constructive alternative to the exclusionary binaries of Cartesian philosophy, Genevieve Lloyd and Moira Gatens turn to Spinoza. Spinoza's understanding of the body as "in relation" takes the focus of philosophical thought from the homogeneous subject to the heterogeneity of the social, and the focus of politics from individual rights to collective responsibility. The implications for feminism are radical; Spinoza enables a reconceptualization of the imaginary and the possibility of a sociability of inclusion.
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    Institutional Transformations.Danielle Celermajer, Millicent Churcher, Moira Gatens & Anna Hush - 2019 - Angelaki 24 (4):3-21.
    The idea that social and political institutions can be designed in order to achieve specific human ends goes back, at least, to Plato’s presentation of the appropriate form of the just city-state i...
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    (1 other version)Gilles Deleuze and the Ruin of Representation.Moira Gatens - 2003 - Hypatia 18 (3):237-239.
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    Feminist Interpretations of Benedict Spinoza.Moira Gatens (ed.) - 2009 - Pennsylvania State University Press.
    "A collection of essays on the metaphysical, political, theological, ethical and psychological writings of Spinoza.
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    Spinoza's disturbing thesis: Power, norms and fiction in the tractatus theologico-politicus.Moira Gatens - 2009 - History of Political Thought 30 (3):455-468.
    This paper treats a recalcitrant problem in Spinoza scholarship, namely, how to reconcile the conception of 'power' in his political writings with that found in his Ethics. Some have doubted the capacity of Spinoza's political philosophy to yield an adequate normative theory. If he is unable to provide a normative ground for political philosophy then perhaps this exposes a problem in Spinoza's philosophy taken as a whole. I argue that the considerable normative resources of his ethical and political philosophy, as (...)
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  17. The Art and Philosophy of George Eliot.Moira Gatens - 2009 - Philosophy and Literature 33 (1):pp. 73-90.
    This volume of specially-commissioned essays provides accessible introductions to all aspects of George Eliot's writing by some of the most distinguished new and established scholars and critics of Victorian literature. The essays are comprehensive, scholarly and lucidly written, and at the same time offer original insights into the work of one of the most important Victorian novelists, and into her complex and often scandalous career. Discussions of her life, the social, political, and intellectual grounding of her work, and her relation (...)
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    The Barking Dog and the Mind of God.Moira Gatens - 2020 - Australasian Philosophical Review 4 (3):216-224.
    ABSTRACT Are there limits to the ability of Spinoza’s philosophy to speak to our present? Perhaps his notion of ‘the mind of God’ is too foreign for contemporary sensibilities to contemplate? After offering a brief refutation of Spinoza as atheist or pantheist, I venture the idea that contemporary understandings of nature may benefit from a consideration of Spinoza’s account of ‘God or Nature’. I suggest that the expression of the virtue of fortitudo (strength of character) can be (re)conceived as the (...)
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    Spinoza on art and the cultivation of a disposition toward joyful living.Anthony Uhlmann & Moira Gatens - 2020 - Intellectual History Review 30 (3):429-445.
    Any engagement with Spinoza's views on art is bound to mention his account of the rightful pleasures that the wise man takes in things that appeal to the imagination and delight his senses: beautif...
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  20. Can Human Rights Accommodate Women's Rights? Towards an Embodied Account of Social Norms, Social Meaning, and Cultural Change.Moira Gatens - 2004 - Contemporary Political Theory 3 (3):275-299.
    The paper is in four parts. The first part offers a brief reminder of the historical context for human rights as women's rights. The second part notes the relative lack of attention in human rights theory to the roles of social meaning and what has been called the ‘social imaginary’. The third part suggests that the social imaginary — understood in terms of the always present backdrop to meaningful social action — may be seen as a fruitful ‘middle ground’ upon (...)
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    Feminist Ethics.Moira Gatens - 1998 - Dartmouth Publishing Company.
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    13 Beauvoir and biology: a second look.Moira Gatens - 2003 - In Claudia Card (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Simone de Beauvoir. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 266.
  23. Introduction: Through Spinoza's "looking glass".Moira Gatens - 2009 - In Feminist Interpretations of Benedict Spinoza. Pennsylvania State University Press.
  24. The politics of the imagination.Moira Gatens - 2009 - In Feminist Interpretations of Benedict Spinoza. Pennsylvania State University Press.
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    Feminism and Philosophy.Moira Gatens, Lorraine Code, Claudia Card & Rosi Braidotti - 1993 - Philosophical Quarterly 43 (173):513-519.
  26. 'The oppressed state of my sex': Wollstonecraft on reason, feeling and equality.Moira Gatens - 1991 - In Carole Pateman & Mary Lyndon Shanley (eds.), Feminist interpretations and political theory. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press in association with Basil Blackwell, Oxford, UK. pp. 112--28.
  27. Feminism as “Password”: Re-thinking the “Possible” with Spinoza and Deleuze.Moira Gatens - 2000 - Hypatia 15 (2):59-75.
    This paper reads Deleuze through a Spinozist lens to conceive of the human being as a dynamic and complex whole in constant interchange with its environment. The author thus moves beyond philosophical dualisms, and challenges the assumption that a hierarchical normative organization is the only possible world. Using the example of rape, she argues that micropolitical strategies might disrupt and “pass” the juridical order and open up alternative, more equitable, forms of sociability.
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    The Power of Spinoza: Feminist Conjunctions.Susan James, Genevieve Lloyd & Moira Gatens - 1998 - Women’s Philosophy Review 19:6-28.
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    Australian Feminism: A Companion.Barbara Caine & Moira Gatens - 1998 - Oxford University Press USA.
    The distinctive features of Australian feminism, including diversity, engagement with the state, openness to new ideas, and connections with ideas and developments overseas are fully explored in this major new encyclopedic reference book.
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    Power, bodies, and difference.Moira Gatens - 2003 - In Ann J. Cahill & Jennifer Hansen (eds.), The Continental Feminism Reader. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 258--275.
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    Singularity, similarity, and exemplarity in Spinoza’s philosophy.Moira Gatens - 2020 - Ethics and Education 15 (2):200-212.
    In the Preface to Part Four of the Ethics, Spinoza offers the reader an exemplar of human nature. However, Spinoza does not conceive of human nature as a universal in which each human being participates, simply by virtue of being human. Rather, each human being is conceived as singular. Thriving individual lives assume thriving communities composed of (somewhat) like-minded and (somewhat) like-embodied individuals. The model, or exemplar, then, may be considered to play the role of an enabling fiction in his (...)
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  32. Introduction - Rousseau and Wollstonecraft: Nature vs. Reason.Moira Gatens - 1986 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 64:1.
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    Reframing honour in heterosexual imaginaries.Millicent Churcher & Moira Gatens - 2019 - Angelaki 24 (4):151-164.
    This paper explores the relationship between honour and recognition in the context of normative heterosexuality, and the implications of this relationship for sustaining and transforming problematic sexual norms. Building on recent attempts to move beyond a narrow and restrictive focus on consent as a means of thinking through the ethics of heterosexual sex, we reflect critically on the concept of honour in this domain. Honour, in our approach, is a cluster concept that houses a number of related normative values and (...)
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    Let’s Talk Story: Gender and the Narrative Self.Moira Gatens - 2014 - Critical Horizons 15 (1):40-51.
    Through a critical reading of Maxine Hong Kingston’s novel, Woman Warrior, this paper addresses Amy Allen’s criticism that Seyla Benhabib’s conception of narrative agency involves the idea of a gender-neutral core self. Allen’s criticism of Benhabib is found wanting and the notion of an ungendered self is judged incoherent. Rather, gender is one of a number of markers at work in the open-ended narrative construction of identity.
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    Marian Evans, George Henry lewes and “George eliot”.Moira Gatens - 2008 - Angelaki 13 (2):33 – 44.
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    Book Review: Space Invaders: Race, Gender and Bodies out of Place. [REVIEW]Moira Gatens - 2007 - Feminist Review 87 (1):162-163.
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    Paradoxes of Liberal Politics: Contracts, Rights, and Consent.Moira Gatens - 2008 - In Daniel I. O'Neill, Mary Lyndon Shanley & Iris Marion Young (eds.), Illusion of Consent: Engaging with Carole Pateman. Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 31-48.
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    Spinoza's Notion of Freedom.Moira Gatens - 2021 - In Yitzhak Y. Melamed (ed.), A Companion to Spinoza. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. pp. 394–401.
    Our everyday notion of freedom is an innate prejudice. It is based on our inadequate knowledge of the causes of things and on our tendency to accord too much credence to the way things appear, that is, to the way that things outside ourselves affect us. Imagination, the lowest kind of knowledge, is the source of falsity and error, and it lies at the origin of human bondage to affect. The imagination can be deployed in the service of attaining a (...)
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    Modern rationalism.Moira Gatens - 1998 - In Alison M. Jaggar & Iris Marion Young (eds.), A companion to feminist philosophy. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. pp. 21–29.
    Modern, or continental, rationalism refers to the works of the seventeenth‐century philosophers René Descartes, Baruch Spinoza, and Gottfried Leibniz. While there is much to mark each philosopher off from the others, there are nevertheless several shared fundamental assumptions that warrant the common title of “rationalist.” Each philosopher believed that mathematics and geometry were appropriate models on which to base philosophical methodology. Each, whilst critical of founding knowledge on mere faith – which they believed could only lead to skepticism – nevertheless (...)
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    Institutional transformations: Imagination, embodiment, and affect.Danielle Celermajer, Millicent Churcher & Moira Gatens - 2019 - Angelaki 24 (4):1-2.
    Volume 24, Issue 4, August 2019, Page 1-2.
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  41. Between the Sexes: Care or Justice?Moira Gatens - 1995 - In Brenda Almond (ed.), Introducing Applied Ethics. Cambridge, USA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 42--57.
     
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    Editors’ preface to special issue of Intellectual History Review on Spinoza and Art.Moira Gatens & Anthony Uhlmann - 2020 - Intellectual History Review 30 (3):359-361.
    Benedict Spinoza (1632–1677) is often characterised in the history of philosophy as the rationalist philosopher par excellence. However, much contemporary critical interpretation of his thought has...
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    Imagination, Religion, and Morality: What Did George Eliot Learn from Spinoza and Feuerbach?Moira Gatens - 2019 - In Eileen O’Neill & Marcy P. Lascano (eds.), Feminist History of Philosophy: The Recovery and Evaluation of Women’s Philosophical Thought. Springer, NM 87747, USA: Springer. pp. 221-239.
    Did George Eliot’s work as translator of the critical writings on religion of Ludwig Feuerbach and Benedict Spinoza influence her work as a novelist? Did she hold a comprehensive philosophy of religion? Through an examination of her non-fictional and fictional writings this chapter argues that we should take seriously Eliot’s claim that her novels are ‘experiments in life’. Building on the critiques of religion offered by Spinoza and Feuerbach, Eliot’s novels address the philosophical question: is morality possible in a godless (...)
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    Joyful Proximities.Moira Gatens - 2019 - Philosophy Today 63 (3):805-813.
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    Le Doeuff.Moira Gatens - 1998 - In Simon Critchley & William Ralph Schroeder (eds.), A Companion to Continental Philosophy. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 607–612.
    Michèle Le Doeuff's research interests include British Renaissance philosophy (especially the works of Francis Bacon and Thomas More) and the writings of Shakespeare. However, she is best known in Anglo‐American philosophy for her writings on the philosophical imaginary and feminism. Le Doeuff is a somewhat idiosyncratic figure in contemporary French philosophy. As Colin Gordon has remarked, her work “shows no systematic affiliation, no signs of a formative debt or repudiation” (translator's Preface, Le Doeuff 1989, p. vi). Le Doeuff does, however, (...)
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    Philosophy of the Body.Moira Gatens - 2003 - In Ann J. Cahill & Jennifer Hansen (eds.), The Continental Feminism Reader. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 275.
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    Politicizing the Body: Property, Contract, and Rights.Moira Gatens - 2006 - In John S. Dryzek, Bonnie Honig & Anne Phillips (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory. Oxford University Press.
    This article examines the politicization of the human body focusing on the way this issue was conceived in the West. The human body has long been used as a source of metaphor for political theorists and the very notion of body politic leans on the image of a unified and discrete entity that has commanding parts and obeying parts that may be robust or ailing, strong or weak. This article suggests that aside from political theory with a rich source of (...)
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    Re-coupling gender and genre.Moira Gatens - 2008 - Angelaki 13 (2):1 – 3.
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    Recognition, Redistribution and the'Postsocialist Condition'.Moira Gatens - 1998 - Theory and Event 2 (4).
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    Sex, contract and genealogy.Moira Gatens - 1996 - Journal of Political Philosophy 4 (1):29–44.
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