This book promotes the research of present-day women working in ancient and medieval philosophy, with more than 60 women having contributed in some way to the volume in a fruitful collaboration. It contains 22 papers organized into ten distinct parts spanning the sixth century B…
This book promotes the research of present-day women working in ancient and medieval philosophy, with more than 60 women having contributed in some way to the volume in a fruitful collaboration. It contains 22 papers organized into ten distinct parts spanning the sixth century B…
An introduction to the question of what it means to be a woman, exploring the approaches to womanhood and gender of both recent and historical female thinkers.
Examines the lives and ideas of women in the history of philosophy who wished to understand and advocate for themselves as women. These women and their views form a canon on the question of women, a canon that can help guide the conversation for thinkers and activists today who …
Much recent work has been done on Plato's notion of the female Guardian, but examples are limited. Jane Duran argues that aristocratic women of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are indeed exemplary and embody theconcept of Guardianship.
"Recent work on the Platonic notion of the Guardian has focused on the female Guardian, or {28}Philosopher Queen,
The guardian question -- Philosopher queens -- Theology and philosophy -- The 1500s as a time of change -- Mary Sidney Herbert, the Countess of Pembroke -- Katherine Parr, queen consort -- Elizabeth I -- Science and philosophy -- The 1600s and intellectual ferment -- Margaret Ca…
Much recent work has been done on Plato's notion of the female Guardian, but examples are limited. Jane Duran argues that aristocratic women of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are indeed exemplary and embody the concept of Guardianship.
"What is philosophy, why does it matter, and how would it be different if women wrote more of it? At a time when the importance of philosophy, and the humanities in general, is being questioned and at a time when the question of gender equality is a huge public question, 22 wome…
What is philosophy, why does it matter, and how would it be different if women wrote more of it? At a time when the importance of philosophy, and the humanities in general, is being questioned and at a timewhen the question of gender equality is a huge public question, 22 women …
"The Center Must Not Hold: White Women Philosophers on the Whiteness of Philosophy functions as a textual site where white women philosophers engage boldly in critical acts of exploring ways of naming and disrupting whiteness in terms of how it has defined the conceptual field o…
