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Rediscovering women philosophers : philosophical genre and the boundaries of philosophy
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Rediscovering women philosophers : philosophical genre and the boundaries of philosophy

Author: Catherine Villanueva Gardner
Publisher: Boulder, Colo. : Westview, 2000.
Series: Feminist theory and politics.
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"Rediscovering Women Philosophers: Philosophical Genre and the Boundaries of Philosophy examines the writings of our philosophical foremothers and explores what their work may have to offer modern theorizing in feminist ethics. Gardner interprets a varied selection of moral philosophers in an attempt both to contribute to our understanding of their work and to investigate why such work is often neglected or  Read more...
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Gardner, Catherine Villanueva.
Rediscovering women philosophers.
Boulder, Colo. : Westview, 2000
(OCoLC)654688231
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Catherine Villanueva Gardner
ISBN: 0813366100 9780813366104
OCLC Number: 42475758
Description: vii, 198 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Catharine Macaulay's Letters on education : what constitutes a philosophical system --
Allegory and moral philosophy in Christine de Pisan's The book of the city of ladies --
Mary Wollstonecraft and the separation of poetry and politics --
George Eliot and how to read novels as philosophy --
Knowing and speaking of divine love : Mechthild of Magdeburg.
Series Title: Feminist theory and politics.
Responsibility: Catherine Villanueva Gardner.
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This book examines the philosophical foremothers of women's philosophy and explores what their work may have to offer modern theorizing in feminist ethics.  Read more...

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schema:reviewBody""Rediscovering Women Philosophers: Philosophical Genre and the Boundaries of Philosophy examines the writings of our philosophical foremothers and explores what their work may have to offer modern theorizing in feminist ethics. Gardner interprets a varied selection of moral philosophers in an attempt both to contribute to our understanding of their work and to investigate why such work is often neglected or misunderstood. She looks into the reasons such literary forms as novels, letters, and poetry have often been assigned non-philosophical status, while they seem to he prevalent in the work of women philosophers from the history of philosophy."--BOOK JACKET."
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