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Women and liberty, 1600-1800 : philosophical essays / Jacqueline Broad and Karen Detlefsen.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women philosophers.
- Liberty--Philosophy.
- Liberty.
- Philosophy, Modern--17th century.
- Philosophy, Modern.
- Philosophy, Modern--18th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 252 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Philosophical essays
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Liberty and Feminism in Early Modern Women's Writing / Karen Detlefsen
- François Poulain de la Barre on the Subjugation of Women / Martina Reuter
- Gabrielle Suchon's 'Neutralist': The Status of Women and the Invention of Autonomy / Lisa Shapiro
- Marriage, Slavery, and the Merger of Wills: Responses to Sprint, 1700-01 / Jacqueline Broad
- Locke, Enlightenment, and Liberty in the Works of Catharine Macaulay and her Contemporaries / Karen Green
- Mary Wollstonecraft and Freedom as Independence / Lena Halldenius
- Sophie de Grouchy, The Tradition(s) of Two Liberties, and the Missing Mother(s) of Liberalism / Eric Schliesser
- Liberty of Mind: Women Philosophers and the Freedom to Philosophize / Sarah Hutton
- Freedom and Necessity in the Work of Margaret Cavendish / Deborah Boyle
- Anne Conway on Liberty / Marcy P. Lascano
- Mary Astell on Liberty / Alice Sowaal
- If I were King! Morals and Physics in Emilie Du Châtelet's Subtle Thoughts on Liberty / Ruth Hagengruber
- Creation, Divine Freedom, and Catharine Cockburn: An Intellectualist on Possible Worlds and Contingent Laws / Emily Thomas
- Biographical appendix / Jacqueline Broad, Karen Detlefsen.
- Notes:
- This edition previously issued in print: 2017.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 16, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-253823-3
- 0-19-184730-5
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