Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes

Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors Joanne Boucher is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Winnipeg. Her research focuses on early modern political thought, feminist theory, reproductive rights, and new reproductive technologies. Karen Detlefsen is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on seventeenth-and eighteenth-century philosophy with emphases on natural philosophy, women philosophers, and philosophy of education. She is the editor of Descartes’ Meditations: A Critical Guide (2012). Karen Green is Associate Professor in the School of Philosophical, Historical, and International Studies at Monash University. She is the author, with Jacqueline Broad, of A History of Women’s Political Thought in Europe, 1400–1700 (2009) and editor, with Broad, of Virtue, Liberty, and Toleration: Political Ideas of European Women, 1400–1800 (2007). With Constant Mews and Janice Pinder, she translated Christine de Pizan’s Book of Peace (2008), and edited, with Mews, Virtue Ethics for Women, 1250–1500 (2011). She is currently working on a follow-up volume to the History of Women’s Political Thought in Europe covering the years 1700 to 1800. Wendy Gunther-Canada is Professor of Government at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and is the current chairperson of that department. She is the author of Rebel Writer: Mary Wollstonecraft and Enlightenment Politics (2001) and co-author of the third, fourth, and fifth editions of Women, Politics, and American Society (2002, 2005, 2011). Gunther-Canada is completing a book-length manuscript on Catharine Macaulay’s political thought. She received her Ph.D. from Rutgers University. Nancy J. Hirschmann is Professor of Political Science at The University of Pennsylvania. Her most recent books include Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory (2008) and The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom (2003), which won the 2004 Victoria Schuck Award for the best book on women and politics. She is also co-editor with Kirstie McClure of Feminist Interpretations of John Locke (2007) and with Beth Linker of Civil Disabilities: Theory, Citizenship, and the Body (forthcoming 2013). Jane S. Jaquette is a teaching Emeritus Professor of Politics and Diplomacy and World Affairs at Occidental College and Adjunct Research Professor at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies. She is the editor of and a contributor to several 282 Contributors books on women’s political participation in Latin America and on women and development , most recently Feminist Agendas and Democracy in Latin America (2009). She contributed an essay to Feminist Interpretations of Niccolò Machiavelli (2004) and is currently working on a book on rethinking U.S.–Latin American relations with her husband, Abraham Lowenthal. S. A. Lloyd is Professor of Philosophy, Law, and Political Science at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Ideals as Interests in Hobbes’s ‘‘Leviathan’’ (1992) and Morality in the Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes (2009), editor of Hobbes Today (2012), and author of many articles in contemporary liberal feminism and Rawls studies. Su Fang Ng is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author of a book, Literature and the Politics of Family in Seventeenth-Century England (2007), and articles ranging from the medieval to the postcolonial periods. She is currently working on Alexander the Great, cross-cultural ideas of empire, and Anglo-Dutch-indigenous relations in the East Indies. Her work has been supported by long-term residential fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, at the National Humanities Center, and at the Harrington Faculty Fellows Program at the University of Texas at Austin. Carole Pateman is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at UCLA and Honorary Professor in the School of European Studies at Cardiff University (UK). She is the winner of the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science for 2012 and is a former president of the American Political Science Association (2010–11) and the International Political Science Association (1991–94). Her publications include Participation and Democratic Theory (1970), The Problem of Political Obligation (1979; 2nd ed. 1985), The Sexual Contract (1988), and, with Charles Mills, Contract and Domination (2007). Her new book, edited with Matthew Murray, Basic Income Worldwide: Horizons of Reform, was published by Palgrave in 2012. Gordon Schochet is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Rutgers University, where he taught political and legal philosophy and the history of political thought for over forty years. He is one of the founding directors of the Center for the History...