Background
She was born in Broken Hill, New South Wales, the daughter of Geoffrey and Barbara Curthoys, leading members of the Communist Party of Australia.
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Jean Curthoys
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University of Sydney.
Career
Her sister Ann is an academic historian. 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. She is a contributor to Goodbye to All That? Doctorate. McKnight and R. Manne (Black Incorporated, 2010).
She saw through the press and wrote an introduction to Vic Dudman"s work on the priority of grammar over logic, Victor Dudman"s Grammar and Semantics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
She lives in Hobart.
Politics
On the Failure of Neo-liberalism and the Urgency of Change, educated
Views
After studying science and philosophy at the University of Sydney, she helped teach the first feminist philosophy course in Sydney in 1973.
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Political Party
Communist Party