Women and liberty, 1600-1800 : philosophical essays /

This volume offers a collective study of liberty as discussed by women philosophers, and as theorized with respect to women and their lives, in the 17th and 18th centuries. The contributors cover the metaphysics of free will, and freedom in women's moral and personal as well as religious and po...

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Philosophical essays
Liberty and Feminism in Early Modern Women's Writing /
François Poulain de la Barre on the Subjugation of Women /
Gabrielle Suchon's 'Neutralist': The Status of Women and the Invention of Autonomy /
Marriage, Slavery, and the Merger of Wills: Responses to Sprint, 1700-01 /
Locke, Enlightenment, and Liberty in the Works of Catharine Macaulay and her Contemporaries /
Mary Wollstonecraft and Freedom as Independence /
Sophie de Grouchy, The Tradition(s) of Two Liberties, and the Missing Mother(s) of Liberalism /
Liberty of Mind: Women Philosophers and the Freedom to Philosophize /
Freedom and Necessity in the Work of Margaret Cavendish /
Anne Conway on Liberty /
Mary Astell on Liberty /
If I were King! Morals and Physics in Emilie Du Châtelet's Subtle Thoughts on Liberty /
Creation, Divine Freedom, and Catharine Cockburn: An Intellectualist on Possible Worlds and Contingent Laws /
Biographical appendix /
Hauptverfasser:
Broad, Jacqueline, Detlefsen, Karen
Weitere Verfasser:
Broad, Jacqueline (HerausgeberIn), Detlefsen, Karen (HerausgeberIn)
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Ausgabe:
First edition.
Zusammenfassung:
This volume offers a collective study of liberty as discussed by women philosophers, and as theorized with respect to women and their lives, in the 17th and 18th centuries. The contributors cover the metaphysics of free will, and freedom in women's moral and personal as well as religious and political lives.
Umfang:
1 online resource (xi, 252 pages)
Anmerkungen:
This edition previously issued in print: 2017.
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-253823-3
0-19-184730-5
Schlagworte:
Women philosophers.
Liberty > Philosophy.
Philosophy, Modern > 17th century.
Philosophy, Modern > 18th century.
Philosophy, Modern.
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