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The Neglected Canon: Nine Women Philosophers

First to the Twentieth Century

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  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. Therese Boos Dykeman

    1. Philosophy Dept., Fairfield University, Fairfield, USA

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. First Century, C. E.

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-4
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    2. Pan Chao (c. 45/51–114/120)

      • Therese Boos Dykeman
      Pages 5-30

  3. Twelfth Century

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-37
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    2. Héloïse (1100–1163)

      • Therese Boos Dykeman
      Pages 39-72

  4. Fourteenth Century: Before and After

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-80
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    2. Marie de Gournay (1565–1645)

      • Therese Boos Dykeman
      Pages 81-107

  5. Seventeenth Century

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-113
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    2. Anna Van Schurman (1607–1679)

      • Therese Boos Dykeman
      Pages 115-141

    3. Mary Astell (1666–1731)

      • Therese Boos Dykeman
      Pages 143-165

    4. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648–1695)

      • Therese Boos Dykeman
      Pages 167-205

  6. Eighteenth Century

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 207-213
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    2. Judith Sargent Murray (1751–1820)

      • Therese Boos Dykeman
      Pages 215-268

  7. Nineteenth Century

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 269-275
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    2. Frances Wright (D’Arusmont) (1795–1852)

      • Therese Boos Dykeman
      Pages 277-320

    3. Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825–1921)

      • Therese Boos Dykeman
      Pages 321-359

    4. Conclusion

      • Therese Boos Dykeman
      Pages 361-361

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 363-366
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About this book

When down from the moon stepped the goddess of the night, she bid Minerva/Athene come to her. "Minerva/Athene," she said, "you sprang fully formed from the head of your father. Now all the daughters of mankind think they, too, are as rootless as you. Tonight I bid you dance, join the circle round 1 that tree glistening with the clarity of wisdom. Mother Natura and Lady Philosophia, hands together, already have begun the promenade of myth and allegory. " Still in the garb of gold and white stone, Minerva/ Athene did as she was bid and danced till dawn. Then in new light, she found herself suddenly a budding flower on a tall branch, and even more swiftly a crystalline fruit, rivaling the morning sun, refracting the light. Behold, she had grown roots, difficult to discover down in the dark of history, deep in the solid knowledge of earth. And the daughters of humankind saw and reveled in their roots. This is the story of this book, a history, long and diverse, of women thinkers and their thought. It will become a legacy for all who study it, a legacy that Heloi"se, Marie de Gournay, Sor Juana Ines de Ia Cruz, and Judith Sargent Murray among many women philosophers assured by composing lists of the names of women little acknowledged century after century. While the Hannah Arendt's, Susanne K.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Philosophy Dept., Fairfield University, Fairfield, USA

    Therese Boos Dykeman

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Neglected Canon: Nine Women Philosophers

  • Book Subtitle: First to the Twentieth Century

  • Editors: Therese Boos Dykeman

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3400-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1999

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-5956-2Published: 30 September 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5314-5Published: 01 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-3400-4Published: 29 June 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 366

  • Topics: Epistemology, Ontology, History, general, Philosophy, general, Modern Philosophy

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