McAlister, Linda Lopez ; editor: - Hypatia's Daughters : Fifteen Hundred Years of Women Philosophers

Bloomington [IN], Indiana University Press, (1996). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, xiv,345 pp. Rubberstamps to flyleaf & top page-edge.. Some rubbing. A pinhole to front binding hinge. Good. ¶ Hypatia's Daughters" offers a study of women philosophers, from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. Covering a wide spectrum of ideas - from religion, to evolution, to political theory - this unique volume brings creative women thinkers into mainstream discussion of the history of philosophy. Contributors examine the work of, among others, Hildegard of Bingen, Christine de Pisan, Elisabeth-Princess Palatine, Anne Vicountess Conway, Sor Juana, Damaris Cudworth Masham, Catharine Trotter, Belle van Zuylen, Mary Wollstonecraft, Anna Doyle Wheeler, Harriet Taylor Mill, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Stein, Hannah Arendt, Angela Davis, and Hypatia herself. Some of the essays focus on the philosophical arguments of individual women, while others contextualize the philosophical positions within a philosopher's life and times; some are biographical studies. The contributors include Mary Catharine Baseheart, Donald Beggs, Martha Brandt Bolton, Joanne Cutting-Gray, Jane Duran, Maureen Egan, Lois Frankel, Karen Green, Judith Mary Green, Joke J. Hermsen, Jo Ellen Jacobs, Helen J. John, Catriona Mackenzie, Margaret McFadden, Ursule Molinaro, Andrea Nye, Blanche Radford-Curry, and Mary Ellen Waithe" - publisher's description.

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