Description
Book SynopsisOffers a study of women philosophers, from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. Covering a wide spectrum of ideas - from religion, to evolution, to political theory, this volume brings creative women thinkers into mainstream discussion of the history of philosophy. It includes essays that focus on the philosophical arguments of individual women.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Linda Lopez McAlister
A Christian Martyr in Reverse
Hypatia: 370-415 A.D.
Ursule Molinaro
Finding Bits and Pieces of Hypatia
Mary Ellen Waithe
Hildegard of Bingen: A New Twelfth Century Woman Philosopher?
Helen J. John
A Woman's Thought or a Man's Discipline: The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
Andrea Nye
Christine de Pisan and Thomas Hobbes
Karen Green
Polity and Prudence: The Ethics of Elisabeth, Princess Palatine
Andrea Nye
Anne Viscountess Conway: A Seventeenth Century Rationalist
Jane Duran
Sor Juana's Feminism: From Aristotle to Irigaray
Donald Beggs
Damaris Cudworth Masham: A Seventeenth Century Feminist Philosopher
Lois Frankel
Some Aspects of the Philosophy of Catharine Trotter
Martha Brandt Bolton
Now Foolish Then Wise: Belle van Zuylen's Game with Sexual Identity
Joke J. Hermsen
Reason and Sensibility: The Ideal of Women's Self-Governance in the Writings of Mary Wollstonecraft
Catriona Mackenzie
Anna Doyle Wheeler (1785–1848): Philosopher, Socialist, Feminist
Margaret McFadden
"The Lot of Gifted Ladies Is Hard:" A Study of Harriet Taylor Mill Criticism
Jo Ellen Jacobs
Evolutionary Theory in the Social Philosophy of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Maureen Egan
Edith Stein's Philosophy of Woman and of Women's Education
Mary Catharine Baseheart, s.c.n.
Hannah Arendt, Feminism, and the Politics of Alterity: "What Will We lose If We Win?"
Joanne Cutting-Gray
Angela Davis
Blanche Radford-Curry and Judith Green
Notes on Contributors
Index
