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About the Author
Jacqueline Broad is an Associate Professor of Philosophy in the School of Philosophical, Historical, and International Studies at Monash University, Melbourne. Her main area of research is early modern women's philosophy. She is the author of The Philosophy of Mary Astell (OUP, 2015) and Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century (CUP, 2002), and co-author with Karen Green of A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1400-1700 (CUP, 2009). She recently published a modern edition of Mary Astell's Christian Religion, as Professed by a Daughter of the Church of England (CRRS and Iter, 2013) Karen Detlefsen is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Education at the University of Pennsylvania. She researches the relationship between metaphysics and the life sciences in the early modern period, early modern women philosophers, and the philosophy of education. She is the editor of Descartes' Meditations: A Critical Guide (CUP, 2012). Her articles on Astell, Conway, Descartes, Du Chatelet, Cavendish, Hobbes, Haller, Wolff, and Malebranche have been published in Philosophy Compass, Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie, Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, Perspectives on Science, and volumes by Oxford, Springer, Routledge, Acumen, Kluwer, Cambridge, and the Pennsylvania State University Press.
Reviews
What emerges from this collection of papers is a sense of the unique contributions of lesser-known figures in this period to the development of modern notions of freedom and autonomy. But more than this, I would suggest what also emerges is the appreciation a reader gains for the developing feminist consciousness in this period and the importance of this emerging framework for thinking about morality and freedom in the context of women's oppression and liberation. This is an excellent collection and highly recommended for early modern and feminist scholars alike. * Patricia Sheridan, Locke Studies *
Book Information
ISBN 9780198810261
Author Jacqueline Broad
Format Hardback
Page Count 266
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 1g
Dimensions(mm) 241mm * 164mm * 24mm