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Western philosophy has long excluded the work of women thinkers from their canon. This work addresses this exclusion by examining the breadth of women's contributions to Western thought. It reflects women's engagement with the meaning of individual experience as well as the continuity of their philosophical concerns and practices.
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Series Foreword Elizabeth K. Minnich Acknowledgments Introduction Sara Ebenreck and Cecile T. Tougas Part I. The Loss and the Recovery of Women's Voices Introduction Sara Ebenreck 1. Why Have There Been So Few Women Philosophers? Gerda Lerner 2. Introduction to A Voice from the South Mary Helen Washington Part II. Naming Reality-Differently Introduction Sara Ebenreck 3. Hildegard of Bingen [1098-1179]: A New Medieval Philosopher? Helen J. John, S.N.D. 4. Ednah Dow Cheney's [1824-1904] American Aesthetics Therese B. Dykeman 5. Jane Addams's [1860-1935] Feminist Ethics Marilyn Fischer 6. Moral Wisdom in the Black Women's Literary Tradition Katie Geneva Cannon 7. Susanne K. Langer's [1895-1985] Conception of "Symbol": Making Connections Through Ambiguity Beatrice K. Nelson 8. Hannah Arendt [1906-1975]: On the Relation of Thinking and Morality Elizabeth K. Minnich 9. Hannah Arendt [1906-1975] and Susan Griffin [1943- ]: Storytelling-Toward a Feminist Metahistory Shari Stone-Mediatore 10. Finding New Roots as a Woman Philosopher Sara Ebenreck Part III. Philosophical Friendships Introduction Cecile T. Tougas 11. Heloise [1101-1164] and Abelard Mary Ellen Waithe 12. Elisabeth, Princess Palatine [1618-1680]: Letters to Rene Descartes Andrea Nye 13. Gloria Anzaldua's [1942- ] Borderlands / la Frontera and Rene Descartes's Discourse on Method: Moving Beyond the Canon in Discussion of Philosophical Ideas Lisa A. Bergin 14. Mary Astell [1666-1731]: A Pre-Humean Christian Empiricist and Feminist Jane Duran 15. Harriet Taylor Mill's [1807-1858] Collaboration with John Stuart Mill Jo-Ellen Jacobs 16. Poems from Fifty Forms for Fifty Philosophies Veda A. Cobb-Stevens 17. Philosophical Friendship, 1996: A Postscript Cecile T. Tougas Part IV. Love, Feeling, and Community Introduction Cecile T. Tougas 18. Christine de Pizan [1364-1430] and Jehanne d'Arc: "Above All the Heroes Past" Tracy Adams 19. Madame de Sable's [1599-1678] Moral Philosophy: A Jansenist Salon John J. Conley 20. A Woman-Centered Philosophy: An Alternative to Enlightenment Thought (1700-1750) Ann Willeford 21. Madame de Condorcet's [1764-1822] Letters on Sympathy Karin Brown 22. Iris Murdoch's [1919-1999] Concept of Love and The Bell Patricia J. O'Connor 23. Why I Have Worked on This Book for Several Years Cecile T. Tougas Contributors Index
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Western philosophy has long excluded the work of women thinkers from their canon. This work addresses this exclusion by examining the breadth of women's contributions to Western thought. It reflects women's engagement with the meaning of individual experience as well as the continuity of their philosophical concerns and practices.
