Ludmilla Lorrain

Ludmilla Lorrain is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University Côte d'Azur (Nice, France), where she's working on the link between inheritance, property rights and women's emancipation. She holds a Ph.D in Political Philosophy from the Centre d'Histoire des Philosophies Modernes de la Sorbonne (University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), where she is Associate Researcher, and she's the author of La représentation contre la démocratie, de Thomas Hobbes à John Stuart Mill (Classiques Garnier, 2024). She published various articles on political philosophers (Mill, Bentham, Rousseau, Hobbes, Locke), and more recently on feminist philosophy, and has also been lecturing at various French universities (Paris 1, Sorbonne University, University Paul Valéry Montpellier, CY Cergy Paris University).

At the intersection of social and feminist philosophy, her current research focuses on the concept of family. She explores the ways in which, from late 18th century to late 19th, British women philosophers (Mary Wollstonecraft, Anna Wheeler, Frances Wright, and Harriet Taylor among others) have accurately perceived and described how the nuclear family is oppressive to women. Working on the family as described by those it marginalises, her work then explores what would be a feminist philosophy of the family, or what theorizing the family from below implies.