Dr Belinda Eslick

Dr Belinda Eslick is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry at The University of Queensland. Her research and teaching interests include continental feminist philosophy (particularly the work of Luce Irigaray), ecofeminist and decolonial perspectives in women’s and gender studies, and feminist political theory. A current project considers how the culture/nature dualism and woman-nature connection in Western philosophy informs cultural, economic, and political attitudes towards social reproduction and thus women’s experiences of the home and mothering. Other ongoing projects include the consideration of notions of essence, sexual difference, and nature in Irigaray’s work, a philosophical examination of women’s non-institutional political theory and practice, and research into the impacts of French poststructuralist feminist thought on Australian feminism. Her research is also concerned with themes of natality and maternity and, with colleagues in philosophy and gender studies, she is working on an emerging project that considers mothers’ experiences of academia in Australia and the philosophical implications of maternity in the academy.