Jean Curthoys

Jean Curthoys (born 1947) is an Australian feminist philosopher.

She was born in Broken Hill, New South Wales, the daughter of Geoffrey and Barbara Curthoys, leading members of the Communist Party of Australia. After studying science and philosophy at the University of Sydney, she helped teach the first feminist philosophy course in Sydney in 1973. Her 1997 book, "Feminist Amnesia", accuses later academic feminist theory of abandoning the liberation theory of the 1960s for an intellectually and morally sterile careerism.

Further reading

* J. Franklin, (2003), "Corrupting the Youth: A History of Philosophy in Australia", Macleay Press, ch. 14

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