Jacqueline Broad

Biography

Jacqueline Broad is Professor of Philosophy at Monash University. She is a world-class expert in early modern philosophy (c. 1650-1750), with a particular focus on women philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Her books include The Philosophy of Mary Astell: An Early Modern Theory of Virtue (Oxford University Press, 2015); Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2002); A History of Women’s Political Thought in Europe, 1400-1700 (Cambridge University Press, 2009; with Karen Green); two co-edited volumes, Virtue, Liberty, and Toleration (Springer, 2007; with Karen Green) and Women on Liberty 1600-1800 (Oxford 2017; with Karen Detlefsen); a modern edition of Astell’s The Christian Religion (CRRS & Iter, 2013); and two scholarly editions of women’s philosophical correspondences (OUP 2019 & 2020).