The ideal of Sparta - the devotion of citizens to a well-ordered state - became a legend which has survived for over 2,000 years. J. T. Hooker begins by describing the landscape, the cults and cult-places and the development of Sparta during the Bronze Age. Iron Age Sparta is th…
Anne Conway -- Catharine Cockburn -- Mary Wollstonecraft -- Harriet Martineau -- Victoria Lady Welby -- Mary Whiton Calkins -- L. Susan Stebbing -- Susanne K. Langer -- Hannah Arendt -- Simone de Beauvoir -- Iris Murdoch -- Mary Midgley -- G.E.M. Anscombe -- Philippa Foot -- Jud…
"This exciting book brings together four hundred years of women's philosophical writing, representing famous thinkers from Wollstonecraft and Martineau to De Beauvoir and Murdoch and giving voice to a host of less celebrated - but equally significant - figures. The scope and amb…