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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jacqueline Broad |
| ISBN: | 052181295X 9780521812955 0521039177 9780521039178 |
| OCLC Number: | 49672368 |
| Description: | x, 191 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Elizabeth of Bohemia -- Margaret Cavendish -- Anne Conway -- Mary Astell -- Damaris Masham -- Catharine Trotter Cockburn. |
| Responsibility: | Jacqueline Broad. |
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Abstract:
"In this study of early modern women's thought, Jacqueline Broad explores the complexity of women's responses to Cartesian philosophy and its intellectual legacy in England and Europe. She examines the work of thinkers such as Mary Astell, Elisabeth of Bohemia, Margaret Cavendish, Anne Conway, and Damaris Masham, who were active participants in the intellectual life of their time and were also the respected colleagues of philosophers such as Descartes, Leibniz, and Locke. She also illuminates the continuities between early modern women's thought and the anti-dualism of more recent feminist thinkers. The result is a more gender-balanced account of early modern thought than has hitherto been available. Broad's clear and accessible exploration of this still unfamiliar area will have a strong appeal to both students and scholars in the history of philosophy, women's studies, and the history of ideas."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Women philosophers.
- Philosophy, Modern -- 17th century.
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