Virtue, Liberty, and Toleration Political Ideas of European Women, 1400-1800

Virtue, Liberty, and Toleration Political Ideas of European Women, 1400-1800 / edited by Jacqueline Broad, Karen Green.

This volume challenges the view that women have not contributed to the historical development of political ideas, and highlights the depth and complexity of women’s political thought in the centuries prior to the French Revolution. From the late medieval period to the enlightenment, a significant nu...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Broad, Jacqueline (Editor), Green, Karen (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2007.
Edition:1st ed. 2007.
Series:The New Synthese Historical Library, Texts and Studies in the History of Philosophy, 63
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
History.
Philosophy.
Political philosophy.
Sex (Psychology).
Gender expression.
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Table of Contents:
  • Political Thought as Improvisation: Female Regency and Mariology in Late Medieval French Thought
  • Phronesis Feminised: Prudence from Christine de Pizan to Elizabeth I
  • Catherine d'Amboise's Livre des Prudents et Imprudents: Negotiating Space for Female Voices in Political Discourse
  • “Machiavelli in Skirts.” Isabella d'Este and Politics
  • Liberty and the Right of Resistance:Women's Political Writings of the English Civil War Era
  • Margaret Cavendish and the False Universal
  • The Social and Political Thought of Damaris Cudworth Masham
  • “Our Religion and Liberties”: Mary Astell's Christian Political Polemics
  • Virtue, God, and Stoicism in the Thought of Elizabeth Carter and Catharine Macaulay
  • Catharine Macaulay and Mary Wollstonecraft on the Will
  • Keeping Ahead of the English? A Defence of Jews by Cornélie Wouters, Baroness of Vasse (1790).

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