A woman who defends all the persons of her sex : selected philosophical and moral writings / Gabrielle Suchon ; edited and translated by Domna C. Stanton and Rebecca M. Wilkin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Suchon, Gabrielle, 1631-1703.

Contributor:

Stanton, Domna C.

Wilkin, Rebecca May.

Series:

Other voice in early modern Europe.

Other voice in early modern Europe

Standardized Title:

Traité de la morale et la politique. English. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Early works to 1800.

Women.

Political ethics--Early works to 1800.

Political ethics.

Celibacy--Early works to 1800.

Celibacy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (413 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

During the oppressive reign of Louis XIV, Gabrielle Suchon (1632-1703) was the most forceful female voice in France, advocating women's freedom and self-determination, access to knowledge, and assertion of authority. This volume collects Suchon's writing from two works-Treatise on Ethics and Politics (1693) and On the Celibate Life Freely Chosen; or, Life without Commitments (1700)-and demonstrates her to be an original philosophical and moral thinker and writer. Suchon argues that both women and men have inherently similar intellectual, corporeal, and spiritual capacities, which entitle them equally to essentially human prerogatives, and she displays her breadth of knowledge as she harnesses evidence from biblical, classical, patristic, and contemporary secular sources to bolster her claim. Forgotten over the centuries, these writings have been gaining increasing attention from feminist historians, students of philosophy, and scholars of seventeenth-century French literature and culture. This translation, from Domna C. Stanton and Rebecca M. Wilkin, marks the first time these works will appear in English.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

S e r i e s E d i t o r s ' I n t r o d u c t i o n

Volume Editors' Introduction

Volume Editors' Bibliography

I. Treatise on Ethics and Politics, Divided into Three Parts: Freedom, Knowledge, and Authority

II. On the Celibate Life Freely Chosen, or Life without Commitments

Appendix: Complete Tables of Contents of the Entire Treatise on Ethics and Politics and On the Celibate Life Freely Chosen

Glossary

Series Editors 'Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

Contains:

Suchon, Gabrielle, 1631-1703. Du célibat volontaire. Selections. English. 2010

ISBN:

9786612585067

9780226779232

0226779238

9781282585065

1282585061

OCLC:

635292130