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Author Broad, Jacqueline

Title Women philosophers of the seventeenth century / Jacqueline Broad
Published Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (x, 191 pages)
Contents Elizabeth of Bohemia -- Margaret Cavendish -- Anne Conway -- Mary Astell -- Damaris Masham -- Catharine Trotter Cockburn
Summary "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."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-183) and index
Notes English
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Subject Women philosophers.
Philosophy, Modern -- 17th century.
Philosophy, Modern.
philosophers.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- General.
Philosophy, Modern
Women philosophers
Vrouwelijke filosofen.
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