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Jacqueline Broad

Professor, School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies, Faculty of Arts

2 Posts

Core expertise

Early modern philosophy (c. 1650-1750)
Women philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Biography

Jacqueline's research has focused on theories of virtue and the Cartesian passions in early modern women’s philosophy, as well as the concept of republican liberty and connections between political slavery and marriage in early modern feminist thought. She is also interested in the history of women’s rights in relation to freedom and virtue.