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Virtue, Liberty, and Toleration
Political Ideas of European Women, 1400-1800
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ISBN-13:
9781402058950
Veröffentl:
2007
Einband:
eBook
Seiten:
216
Autor:
Jacqueline Broad
Serie:
63, The New Synthese Historical Library
eBook Typ:
PDF
eBook Format:
Reflowable eBook
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
The essays in this collection examine women’s political writings with particular reference to the themes of virtue (especially the virtue ofphronesis or prudence), liberty, and toleration. The figures discussed include Christine de Pizan, Catherine d’Amboise, Isabella d’Este, Elizabeth I, Katherine Chidley, Elizabeth Poole, Margaret Cavendish, Damaris Masham, Mary Astell, Elizabeth Carter, Catharine Macaulay, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Cornélie Wouters.
This volume serves as an introduction to a rich and as yet under-explored period in the history of women’s ideas. The volume provides a partial insight into the richness and complexity of women’s political ideas in the centuries prior to the French Revolution. The essays in this collection examine women’s political writings with particular reference to the themes of virtue (especially the virtue of phronesis or prudence), liberty, and toleration.
Political Thought as Improvisation: Female Regency and Mariology in Late Medieval French Thought.- Phronesis Feminised: Prudence from Christine de Pizan to Elizabeth I.- Catherine d'Amboise's Livre des Prudents et Imprudents: Negotiating Space for Female Voices in Political Discourse.- “Machiavelli in Skirts.” Isabella d'Este and Politics.- Liberty and the Right of Resistance:Women's Political Writings of the English Civil War Era.- Margaret Cavendish and the False Universal.- The Social and Political Thought of Damaris Cudworth Masham.- “Our Religion and Liberties”: Mary Astell's Christian Political Polemics.- Virtue, God, and Stoicism in the Thought of Elizabeth Carter and Catharine Macaulay.- Catharine Macaulay and Mary Wollstonecraft on the Will.- Keeping Ahead of the English? A Defence of Jews by Cornélie Wouters, Baroness of Vasse (1790).