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Titre(s) : Virtue, liberty, and toleration [Texte électronique] : political ideas of European women, 1400-1800 / Jacqueline Broad, Karen Green, editors
Publication : Dordrecht ; London : Springer, cop. 2007
Description matérielle : 1 ressource dématérialisée
Collection : New synthese historical library ; v. 63
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
This volume challenges the view that women have not contributed to the historical
development of political ideas, and highlights the depth and complexity of women's
political thought in the centuries prior to the French Revolution. From the late medieval
period to the enlightenment, a significant number of European women wrote works dealing
with themes of political significance. The essays in this collection examine their
writings with particular reference to the ideas of virtue, liberty, and toleration.
The figures discussed include Christine de Pizan, Catherine d'Amboise, Isabella d'Este,
Elizabeth I, Katherine Chidley, Elizabeth Poole, Margaret Cavendish, Damaris Masham,
Mary Astell, Elizabeth Carter, Catharine Macaulay, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Cornélie
Wouters. These women actively contributed to the political practice and discourse
of their times. Some of the women question their exclusion from political power and
argue in favour of women's virtue, prudence, and capacity to govern. Others aim to
demonstrate women's spiritual equality with men, to defend liberty of conscience,
and to highlight the importance of education as a means to moral development. And
some women explore the notion of female citizenship or attempt to come to terms with
issues of religious freedom and religious toleration
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Broad, Jacqueline. Fonction indéterminée
Green, Karen (1951-....). Fonction indéterminée
Sujet(s) : Femmes et politique -- Europe -- 1500-1800
Philosophie politique -- Europe
Indice(s) Dewey :
940.2 (23e éd.) = Histoire - Europe - 1453-....
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781402058950
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44658020n
Notice n° :
FRBNF44658020
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction / Jacqueline Broad, Karen Green ; 1. Political Thought as Improvisation:
Female Regency and Mariology in Late Medieval French Thought / Earl Jeffrey Richards
; 2. Phronesis Feminised: Prudence from Christine de Pizan to Elizabeth I / Karen
Green ; 3. Catherine d'Amboise's Livre des Prudents et Imprudents: Negotiating Space
for Female Voices in Political Discourse / Catherine M. Müller ; 4. "Machiavelli
in Skirts" Isabella d'Este and Politics / Carolyn James ; 5. Liberty and the Right
of Resistance: Women's Political Writings of the English Civil War Era / Jacqueline
Broad ; 6. Margaret Cavendish and the False Universal / Hilda L. Smith ; 7. The
Social and Political Thought of Damaris Cudworth Masham / Regan Penaluna ; 8. "Our
Religion and Liberties": Mary Astell's Christian Political Polemics / Michal Michelson
; 9. Virtue, God, and Stoicism in the Thought of Elizabeth Carter and Catharine Macaulay
/ Sarah Hutton ; 10. Catharine Macaulay and Mary Wollstonecraf
