ABSTRACT
Spanning six centuries of political thought in European history, this book puts the ideas of thinkers from Christine de Pizan to Simone de Beauvoir in the broader contexts of their time. This intriguing collection of essays shows that feminism is not a varient of modern radical discourse but a mode of analysing the issues of authority, power and virtue that have been at the heart of European political thought from the middle ages.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 3|17 pages
A ‘learned wave'
Women of letters and science from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
chapter 4|17 pages
L'égalité des sexes qui ne se conteste plus en France
Feminism in the seventeenth century
chapter 5|19 pages
Reclaiming the European Enlightenment or feminism
Or prologomena to any future history of eighteenth-century Europe
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chapter 7|14 pages
A woman's struggle for a language of enlightenment and virtue
Mary Wollstonecraft and Enlightenment ‘feminism'
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