Genevieve Mary Lloyd FAHA (born 16 October 1941 at Cootamundra, New South Wales), is an Australian philosopher and feminist.
Lloyd studied philosophy at the University of Sydney in the early 1960s and then at Somerville College, Oxford.
From 1967 until 1987 she lectured at the Australian National University, during which period she developed her most influential ideas and wrote The Man of Reason, which was published in 1984.
[3] It argues that Cartesian method encouraged a new polarisation between reason, on the one side, and emotion and imagination on the other.
Even though Descartes and Spinoza's rationalism is less popular today, Lloyd argues that we continue to live with the ideal of the Man of Reason their work gave rise to.