Elizabeth Grosz
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Elizabeth A. Grosz is a feminist academic living and working in the USA. She is known for philosophical interpretations of the work of French philosophers Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, as well as her readings of the works of French feminists, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva and Michele Le Doeuff. She has mainly written on questions of corporeality and their relations to the sciences and the arts.
She has held tenured positions at the University of Sydney 1978-1991, then Monash University 1992-1998 and SUNY Buffalo 1999-2001. In 2002, she became a professor of women's and gender studies at Rutgers University.
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[edit] Books
- Sexual Subversions: Three French Feminists (1989)
- Jacques Lacan: A Feminist Introduction (1990)
- Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism (1994)
- Space, Time and Perversion: Essays on the Politics of Bodies (1995)
- Architecture from the Outside: Essays on Virtual and Real Space (2001)
- The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution and the Untimely (2004)
- Time Travels: Feminism, Nature, Power (2005)
- "Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth" (2008)
[edit] Edited Books
- "Feminist Challenges. Social and Political Theory" (1986), co-edited with Carole Pateman (as Elizabeth Gross)
- Sexy Bodies: The Strange Carnalities of Feminism (1995)
- Becomings: Explorations in Time, Memory and Futures (1999)
[edit] References
J. Franklin, Corrupting the Youth: A History of Philosophy in Australia, Sydney, 2003, ch. 14.
