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The Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century challenges the misconception that there were no female philosophers during this era. It explores the diverse philosophical contributions of women, including those who wrote academic texts, novels, pamphlets, journalism, and activist writings and examines women's contributions to both philosophical movements and topics in social philosophy. It reveals that the nineteenth century was more conducive to women authors than commonly believed and discusses how factors like race and class influenced women's philosophical perspectives. The Handbook corrects the historical narrative and broadens our understanding of philosophy by showcasing the significant contributions of women philosophers.
List of contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Contributors
- American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century: An Introduction
- Lydia Moland and Alison Stone
- PART I AUTHORS
- 1. Elizabeth Hamilton: Moral Philosophy and Early Childhood Education
- Claire Grogan
- 2. Mary Wollstonecraft and Wollstonecraftian Philosophy
- Alan Coffee
- 3. Mary Shepherd on Metaphysics and Mathematics
- Deborah Boyle
- 4. Sojourner Truth: Aesthetics, Bad Faith, and the "Night- Time" State of America
- Biko Mandela Gray and Marcia C. Robinson
- 5. Harriet Martineau and the Empire Question
- Deborah A. Logan
- 6. Lydia Maria Child on Truth, Beauty, and Reform
- Lydia Moland
- 7. Maria Stewart's Biblical Theology of African American Exceptionalism
- Valerie Cooper
- 8. Ada Augusta Lovelace: Ontology and Ethics of Operativity
- Sybille Kramer
- 9. Frances Power Cobbe and Periodical Philosophy
- Susan Hamilton
- 10. Ednah Dow Cheney, Philosopher of Human Progress: Ethics and Aesthetics
- Therese Boos Dykeman
- 11. Antoinette Brown Blackwell: Woman's Rights and Woman's Evolution
- Trevor Pearce
- 12. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: Religion and the Meaning of Democracy in America
- Marcia C. Robinson
- 13. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky: Blavatsky's Place in the History of Philosophy
- Tim Rudbog
- 14. Anna C. Brackett: Feminist Education in the Name of Universality
- Andreas Giesbert
- 15. Fanny Jackson Coppin and Oberlin College: The Shaping of Her World View and Philosophy of Race, 1860- 1865
- Linda M. Perkins
- 16. Victoria Lady Welby: Significs as Philosophy of Language
- Susan Petrilli
- 17. "Side by Side with the Profoundest Thinkers": Amalie Hathaway and the Reception of Schopenhauer in the United States
- Carol Bensick
- 18. Christine Ladd- Franklin
- Sara L. Uckelman
- 19. E. E. Constance Jones and the Law of Significant Assertion
- Jeanne Peijnenburg and Maria van der Schaar
- 20. Marietta Kies's Ethical Altruism
- Rachel Falkenstern
- 21. Vernon Lee's Aesthetic Philosophy, 1880- 1914: Influenced and Influencer
- Sally Blackburn- Daniels
- 22. Constance Naden
- Clare Stainthorp
- 23. Anna Julia Cooper and Philosophy
- Rachel Falkenstern
- 24. Jane Addams, the Settlement Women of Hull House, and the Feminist Pragmatist Orientation
- Barbara J. Lowe and Jennifer Kiefer Fenton
- 25. Ida B. Wells: Philosopher, Ethicist, War Resister
- Joy James
- 26. The Ethics of Mary Whiton Calkins
- Kris McDaniel
- 27. Ella Lyman Cabot's Everyday Ethics
- Samantha Matherne
- PART II MOVEMENTS
- 28. The Aesthetics of the Romantic Period and Women's Writing
- Fiona Price
- 29. Utopian Socialism in Britain
- Federica Falchi
- 30. Transcendentalism: Progressive Self- Development in Mary Moody Emerson, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, and Margaret Fuller
- Dean Moyar
- 31. Utilitarianism
- Catherine Villanueva Gardner
- 32. Black Women's Intellectual Traditions: "These Flowers Growing Out My Mind"
- Lindsey Stewart
- 33. Positivism
- Matthew Wilson
- 34. American Idealists: Redrawing the Social Order
- Andreja Novakovic
- 35. Metaphysical Idealists in Britain: Constance Naden, Victoria Welby, and Arabella Buckley
- Emily Thomas
- 36. American Feminist Socialism 1830- 1930: A Century of Social Experimentation
- Judy D. Whipps
- PART III TOPICS IN SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY
- 37. Philosophical Themes in Nineteenth- Century
- American Feminism
- Rory Dicker
- 38. Free to Learn: Nineteenth- Century Women, the Philosophy of Education, and the Struggle for Equal Access to Education
- Gia Coturri Sorenson
- 39. Women's Rights, Suffrage, and Feminism in Nineteenth-Century America
- Dorothy Rogers
- 40. Abolitionism, Feminism, and Rights by Analogy: From Mary Wollstonecraft to Anna Julia Cooper
- Penelope Deutscher
- 41. Stael's Influence on Cooper and Alcott
- Sandrine Berges
- 42. Mary Shelley and Post- Apocalyptic Literature and Philosophy
- Eileen M. Hunt
- 43. American and British Women Peace Activists
- Wendy E. Chmielewski
- 44. Women Under Contract: Harriet Taylor Mill and the Value of Experiential Politics
- Menaka Philips
- 45. Suffrage as Philosophy: Women Theorizing the Vote in Britain, 1792-1918
- Arianne Chernock
- 46. Literature as Philosophy: Does It Matter That George Eliot Wrote Fiction?
- Patrick Fessenbecker
- 47. Science, Religion, and Morality: Debates among Cobbe, Wedgwood, Lee, and Besant
- Alison Stone
- 48. Sexual Politics and Ethics: Josephine Butler
- Frederic Regard
- 49. Feminism and Women's Rights in Great Britain and Ireland: Tracking Developments and Debates Through the Case of Helen Taylor
- Janet Smith
- Index
About the author
Lydia Moland is the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Philosophy at Colby College. She is the author of
Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life, and of
Hegel's Aesthetics: The Art of Idealism, as well as numerous articles on G.W.F Hegel, Friedrich Schiller, and German Idealism. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the ACLS, the DAAD, and the American Academy in Berlin. Her writing on Lydia Maria Child has appeared in the
Wall Street Journal,
Washington Post, and the
Boston Globe, among other venues.
Alison Stone is Professor of Philosophy at Lancaster University. Her interests range across the history of philosophy, post-Kantian continental philosophy, feminist philosophy, and aesthetics. Her most recent books are
Women on Philosophy of Art: Britain 1770-1900 (2024),
Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2023) and, co-edited with Charlotte Alderwick,
Nineteenth-Century WomenPhilosophers in Britain and America (2023).
