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17From Nobility and Excellence to Generosity and Rights: Sophia's Defenses of WomenHypatia 37 (1): 43-59. 2022.This article examines two early modern feminist works, Woman Not Inferior to Man and Woman's Superior Excellence Over Man, written by “Sophia, A Person of Quality.” Scholars once dismissed these texts as plagiarisms or semi-translations of François Poulain de la Barre's De l’égalité des deux sexes. More recently, however, Guyonne Leduc has drawn attention to the original aspects of these treatises by highlighting Sophia's significant variations on Poulain's vocabulary. In this article, I take Le…Read more
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14The Social Dimension of Generosity in Descartes and AstellJournal of the History of Philosophy 60 (3): 409-427. 2022.ARRAY
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14Women Philosophers of Seventeenth-Century England: Selected Correspondence (edited book)Oup Usa. 2019.This work is a collection of the philosophical correspondences of English women thinkers of the late seventeenth century. It includes letters to and from some of the most famous philosophers of the age, including Locke and Leibniz. Their letters range over a wide variety of philosophical subjects, from religion and ethics to knowledge and metaphysics. The introductory essays and annotations to this work make these women's ideas accessible and comprehensible to modern readers. Taken as a whole, t…Read more
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12Virtue, Liberty, and Toleration: Political Ideas of European Women, 1400-1800 (edited book)Springer. 2007.This volume challenges the view that women have not contributed to the historical development of political ideas, and highlights the depth and complexity of women’s political thought in the centuries prior to the French Revolution. From the late medieval period to the enlightenment, a significant number of European women wrote works dealing with themes of political significance. The essays in this collection examine their writings with particular reference to the ideas of virtue, liberty, and to…Read more
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11Petticoat Power? Mary Astell's Appropriation of Heroic Virtue for WomenJournal of the American Philosophical Association 1-20. forthcoming.Several recent studies devote themselves to Mary Astell's feminist theory of virtue—her ‘serious proposal to the ladies’ to help women obtain wisdom, equality, and happiness, despite the prejudices of seventeenth-century custom. But there has been little scholarship on Astell's conception of heroic virtues, those exceptional character traits that raise their bearers above the ordinary course of nature. Astell's appropriation of heroic virtue poses a number of philosophical difficulties for her f…Read more
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9Hobbes and Astell on War and PeaceIn Marcus P. Adams (ed.), A Companion to Hobbes, Wiley-blackwell. 2021.In this chapter, the author interprets Mary Astell's critique of these principles as engagements with the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. Scholars have examined Astell's writings in relation to the Hobbesian concept of the state of nature and Hobbes's theory of the social contract. While Astell explicitly vilifies Hobbes as a proponent of just cause theory, in the political pamphlets of 1704, she implicitly adopts salient aspects of his views concerning the maintenance of peace. Her writi…Read more
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7Emasculating metaphor : whither the maleness of reason?In Lynda Burns (ed.), Feminist Alliances, Brill. pp. 91-108. 2006.
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7Women Philosophers of Eighteenth-Century England: Selected Correspondence (edited book)New York. 2019.This is the second of two collections of correspondence written by early modern English women philosophers. In this volume, Jacqueline Broad presents letters from three influential thinkers of the eighteenth century: Mary Astell, Elizabeth Thomas, and Catharine Trotter Cockburn. Broad provides introductory essays for each figure and explanatory annotations to clarify unfamiliar language, content, and historical context for the modern reader. Her selections make available many letters that have n…Read more
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72 Mary Astell and the VirtuesIn Penny Weiss & Alice Sowaal (eds.), Feminist Interpretations of Mary Astell, Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 16-34. 2016.
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5Mary Astell: liberty of judgment for womenIn Sabine Doyé & Marion Heinz (eds.), Geschlechterordnung Und Staat: Legitimationsfiguren der Politischen Philosophie, Akademie Verlag. pp. 139-149. 2012.
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Mary Astell's Malebranchean concept of the selfIn Emily Thomas (ed.), Early Modern Women on Metaphysics, Cambridge University Press. 2018.
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17th/18th Century Philosophy |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |
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17th/18th Century Philosophy |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |