| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 252 pages) |
| Contents |
Liberty and Feminism in Early Modern Women's Writing / Karen Detlefsen -- François Poulain de la Barre on the Subjugation of Women / Martina Reuter -- Gabrielle Suchon's 'Neutralist': The Status of Women and the Invention of Autonomy / Lisa Shapiro -- Marriage, Slavery, and the Merger of Wills: Responses to Sprint, 1700-01 / Jacqueline Broad -- Locke, Enlightenment, and Liberty in the Works of Catharine Macaulay and her Contemporaries / Karen Green -- Mary Wollstonecraft and Freedom as Independence / Lena Halldenius -- Sophie de Grouchy, The Tradition(s) of Two Liberties, and the Missing Mother(s) of Liberalism / Eric Schliesser -- Liberty of Mind: Women Philosophers and the Freedom to Philosophize / Sarah Hutton -- Freedom and Necessity in the Work of Margaret Cavendish / Deborah Boyle -- Anne Conway on Liberty / Marcy P. Lascano -- Mary Astell on Liberty / Alice Sowaal -- If I were King! Morals and Physics in Emilie Du Châtelet's Subtle Thoughts on Liberty / Ruth Hagengruber -- Creation, Divine Freedom, and Catharine Cockburn: An Intellectualist on Possible Worlds and Contingent Laws / Emily Thomas -- Biographical appendix / Jacqueline Broad, Karen Detlefsen |
| Summary |
"This book addresses the theme of liberty as it is found in the writing of women philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, or as it is theorized with respect to women and their lives. It covers both theoretical and practical philosophy, with chapters on problems in the metaphysics of free will (both human and divine), the liberty (or lack thereof) of women in their moral, personal lives as well as their social-political, public lives, and the interactions between the metaphysical and normative issues. The chapters draw upon writing of both women and men, and notably, upon a wide range of genres, including more standard philosophical treatises as well as polemical texts, poetry, plays, and other forms of fiction. As such, this book alerts the reader to the wide range of conceptions of what counts as a philosophical text in the early modern period. Several chapters also deal with the relation between early modern and contemporary ways of thinking about the theme of women and liberty, thus urging the reader to appreciate the continuing importance of these earlier philosophers in the history of philosophy and of feminism. Ultimately, the chapters in this text show how crucial it is to recover the too-long forgotten views of female and women-friendly male philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, for in the process of recovering these voices, our understanding of philosophy in the early modern period is not only expanded, but also significantly altered towards a more accurate history of our discipline."--Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-243) and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed April 8, 2019) |
| Subject |
Women philosophers.
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Liberty -- Philosophy
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Philosophy, Modern -- 17th century.
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Philosophy, Modern -- 18th century.
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Philosophy, Modern.
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philosophers.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Liberty -- Philosophy
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Philosophy, Modern
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Women philosophers
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Broad, Jacqueline, editor.
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Detlefsen, Karen, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780192538222 |
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0192538225 |
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9780191847301 |
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0191847305 |
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