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EARLY MODERN FEMINIST THOUGHT
FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON EARLY MODERN THOUGHT

ASSOCIATIONS

AUTHORS

• Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)

CONFERENCES

2009:

• Damaris Cudworth Masham (1658-1708) and her Philosophical Context, British Society for the History of Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, University of London, October 3

   

2008:

• The Virtues and the Formation of the Feminine Moral Subject: 1250-1550, 7th ANZAMEMS Conference, University of Tasmania, December 2-6

2007:

2006:

• Women, Metaphysics and Enlightenment, 1669-1789, Institute of Philosophy, University of London, March 24

2005:

2004:

2003:

• Outsiders in Early Modern Philosophy, Warburg Institute, October 31-November 1

• Father Figures: Gender and Paternity in the Modern Age, Liverpool John Moores University, June 30-July 2

2002:

2001:

2000:

Annual:

COURSES

JOURNALS

PHILOSOPHERS / THEORISTS

• Ann Bradstreet (1612/13 - 1672)
• Elisabeth, Princess of Bohemia (1618 - 1680)
• Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623 - 1673)
• Anne Finch (Viscountess of Conway) (1631 - 1678)
• Damaris Cudworth, Lady Masham (1658 - 1708)
• Mary Astell (1666 – 1731)
• Catharine Trotter Cockburn (1679 - 1749)
• Madame Émelie du Chatelet (1706 - 1749)
• Mercy Otis Warren (1728 - 1814)
• Catherine Macaulay (1731 - 1791)
• Judith Sargent Murray (1751 - 1820)
• Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 - 1797) (see also Nineteenth Century Feminist Theory)
• Germain Necker de Stael (1766 - 1817) (see also Nineteenth Century Feminist Theory)

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Atherton, Margaret, ed.  Women Philosophers of the Early Modern Period.  Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994.
  • Hill, Bridget, ed.  Eighteenth Century Women: an Anthology
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  • O'Neill, Eileen, ed.  Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: a Collection of Primary Sources. Oxford: OUP, 1998.
  • Jones, Vivien, ed.  Women in the Eighteenth Century
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  • Keeble, N. H., ed.  The Cultural Identity of Seventeenth Century Woman: a Reader
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  • Prior, Mary, ed.  Women in English Society 1500-1800
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  • Travitsky, Betty, et al., eds.  Attending to Women in Early Modern England.
  • Turner, James, ed.  Sexuality and Gender in Early Modern Europe.
  • Waithe, Mary Ellen, ed.  Vol. 3 of A History of Women Philosophers.  Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 1991.
  • Waithe, Mary Ellen, ed.  Medieval, Renaissance and Enlightenment Women Philosophers, AD 500-1600.  Vol. 2 of History of Women Philosophers.  Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1989.

  • Literature:

    • Lonsdale, Roger, ed.  Eighteenth Century Women Poets. 

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Finch, Anne (Viscountess of Conway).  Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy.  Trans. Allison P. Coudert and Taylor Corse.  Cambridge: CUP, 1996.

  • Literature:

    • Burney, Frances.  Evelina.  1778.
    • Edgeworth, Maria.  Belinda.  1801.
    • Fenwick, Eliza.  Secresy.  1795.
    • Lennox, Charlotte.  The Female Quixote.  1752.

    • Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. 

    • Wheatley, Phyllis

On-Line:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

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  • Literary Criticism:

    • Armstrong, Isobel, ed.  Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment
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    • Grundy, Isobel, et al., eds.  Women, Writing, History: 1640-1740. 
    • Pacheko, Anita, ed.  Early Women Writers, 1670-1720
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    • Traub, Valerie, et al. eds.  Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects
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• Selected Individual Works:

  • Socio-Historical Context:

    • Amussen, Susan.  An Ordered Society: Gender and Class in Early Modern England
    • Davis, Natalie Zemon.  "Women on Top."  Society and Culture in Early Modern France. 
    • Davis, Natalie Zemon.  Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth Century Lives
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    • Rogers, Katharine.  Feminism in Eighteenth Century England. 
     
    • Schochet, Gordon.  Patriarchalism in Political Thought: the Authoritarian Family and Political Speculation and Attitudes in Seventeenth Century England.  New York: Basic, 1975. 
    • Shoemaker, Robert.  Gender in British Society, 1650-1850. 
     
    • Smith, Hilda.  Reason’s Disciples: Seventeenth Century English Feminists.  Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1982.
    • Stone, Lawrence.  The Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 1500-1800. 
    • Wiesner, Merry.  Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe
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  • O'Neill, Eileen.  "Disappearing Ink: Early Modern Women Philosophers and their Fate in History."  Philosophy in a Feminist Voice: Critiques and Reconstructions.  Ed. Janet A. Kourany.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1998.  17-62.
  • Reynolds, Myra.  The Learned Lady in England, 1630-1760.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1920.
  • Smith, Hilda.  Reason's Disciples:  Seventeenth Century English Feminists.  Urbana-CHampaign: U of Illinois P, 1982.
  • Springborg, Patricia.  Mary Astell: Theorist of Freedom from Domination.  Cambridge: CUP, 2005.

  • Literary Criticism:

    • Barash, Carol.  English Women’s Poetry, 1649-1714
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    • Brant, Clare, et al., eds.  Women, Texts, and Histories, 1575-1760. 
    • Brown, Laura.  Ends of Empire: Women and Ideology in Early Eighteenth Century English Literature
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    • Castle, Terry.  The Female Thermometer: Eighteenth Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny
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    • Cohen, Michèle.  Fashioning Masculinity: National Identity and Language in the Eighteenth Century
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    • Hobby, Elaine.  Virtue of Necessity: English Women’s Writing, 1649-1688. 
    • Nussbaum, Felicity.  The Brink of All We Hate: English Satires on Women, 1660-1750. 
    • Spender, Dale.  Mothers of the Novel
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    • Todd, Janet.  The Signs of Angellica: Women, Writing and Fiction, 1660-1800
    .  Williamson, Marilyn.  Raising their Voices: British Women Writers, 1650-1750. 

On-Line:

• Sowaal, Alice: Mary Astell (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES / RESEARCH CENTRES / RESEARCH PROJECTS

WWW GATEWAYS

• Suber, Peter: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Women Philosophers

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