| Description |
xiv, 345 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
A Hypatia book |
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Hypatia book.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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 philosophical work 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 L. Egan -- Edith Stein's philosophy of woman and of women's education / Mary Catharine Baseheart -- Hannah Arendt, feminism, and the politics of alterity : "what will we lose if we win?" / Joanne Cutting-Gray -- Notorious philosopher : the transformative life and work of Angela Davis / Judith Mary Green and Blanche Radford Curry. |
| Summary |
This study of women philosophers from the Middle Ages to the 20th century covers a wide spectrum of ideas--from religion, to evolution, to political theory. This volume brings creative women thinkers into mainstream discussions of the history of philosophy. Contributors examine the work of, among others, Hildegard of Bingen, Vicountess Conway, Sor Juana, Mary Wollstonecraft, Hannah Arendt, Angela Davis, and Hypatia herself. --From publisher's description. |
| Subject |
Women philosophers.
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Women philosophers. (OCoLC)fst01178286
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Vrouwelijke filosofen.
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Feministische filosofie.
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Biografie. (DE-588)4006804-3
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Geschichte. (DE-588)4020517-4
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Philosophin. (DE-588)4174285-0
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philosophe (femme) -- 4e s. -- 20e s. -- études diverses.
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Philosophin.
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Geschichte.
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Biographie.
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Kvinnliga filosofer.
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| Added Author |
McAlister, Linda L.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Hypatia's daughters. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1996 (OCoLC)654146039 |
| ISBN |
0253330572 (alk. paper) |
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9780253330574 (alk. paper) |
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0253210607 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780253210609 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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