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Author Suchon, Gabrielle, 1631-1703.

Title 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
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 383 pages) : illustrations
Series The other voice in early modern Europe
Other voice in early modern Europe.
Contents Contents; Acknowledgments; Series Editors' Introduction; 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 On the Celibate Life Freely Chosen; Glossary; Series Editors' Bibliography; Index
Summary During the oppressive reign of Louis XIV, Gabrielle Suchon 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 and demonstrates her to be an original philosophical and moral thinker and writer
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Translated from the French
Online resource, title from digital title page (viewed on March 18, 2021)
Subject Women -- Early works to 1800
Political ethics -- Early works to 1800
Celibacy -- Early works to 1800
Electronic books.
e-books.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Celibacy
Political ethics
Women
Genre/Form Electronic books
Early works
Form Electronic book
Author Stanton, Domna C., editor, translator.
Wilkin, Rebecca May, editor, translator.
Suchon, Gabrielle, 1631-1703. Du célibat volontaire. Selections. English
ISBN 9780226779232
0226779238
9786612585067
6612585064
1282585061
9781282585065
Other Titles Traité de la morale et de la politique. Selections. English