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8American Women in the Transcendental and Pragmatist MovementsJournal of the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists 1 (2): 158-178. 2022.Thirty years of search have demonstrated that women were as engaged in philosophical writing in the nineteenth century as in the more studied Early Modern and Twentieth Century Periods. It is now possible to ask the question: do their newfound texts fit into the conventional “patriarchal” historiography? To find the answer, we must survey the books which constitute that historiography and then experiment with challenging them with a handful of new texts.
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20The Francophile Philosophy, Science, and Literature of Sarah A. DorseyIn Chelsea C. Harry & George N. Vlahakis (eds.), Exploring the Contributions of Women in the History of Philosophy, Science, and Literature, Throughout Time, Springer Nature Switzerland. pp. 101-128. 2023.Mississippi-born woman of letters Sarah Anne Ellis Dorsey (1829–1879) deserves a place among nineteenth century American philosophers. Dorsey was a corresponding member of the New Orleans Academy of Sciences. Her lectures there in 1874–1875 on “The Philosophy of the University of France,” “The Aryan Philosophy,” and “The Present Condition of the Question of the Origin of Species” were among the first, if not the first, given by a woman before a learned society in a major city. A second presentat…Read more
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