Empowerment and Interconnectivity - Toward a Feminist History of Utilitarian Philosophy

About the author

Catherine Villanueva Gardner is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

Summary

Examines the work of three nineteenth-century utilitarian feminist philosophers: Catharine Beecher, Frances Wright, and Anna Doyle Wheeler. Focuses on methodological questions in order to recover theirphilosophy and categorize it as feminist.

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Villanueva Gardner, Gardner Catherine Villanueva
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2015
• EAN: 9780271058153
• ISBN: 978-0-271-05815-3
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 544 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Utilitarianism, PHILOSOPHY / Criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Feminism & feminist theory, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy