Christine de Pizan -- Women of the Italian renaissance -- From Anne de Beaujeu to Marguerite de Navarre -- Queen Elizabeth I of England -- From the Reformation to Marie le Jars de Gournay -- Women of the English civil war era -- Quaker women -- The Fronde and Madeleine de Scudéry -- Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle -- Women of the Glorious Revolution -- Women of late seventeenth-century France -- Mary Astell
Summary
This ground-breaking book surveys the history of women's political thought in Europe from the late medieval period to the early modern era. It will be of interest to political philosophers, historians of ideas, and feminist scholars alike
