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Women in Western Political Thought, Princeton: Princeton University Press. O'Neill, Eileen, 1998. "Disappearing Ink: Early Modern Women Philosophers and Their Fate in History," in Janet Kourany (ed.), Philosophy in a Feminist Voice: Critiques and Reconstructions, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
^A – For more information about this person's contribution to philosophy see her entry in Margaret Atherton's Women Philosophers of the Early Modern Period. Hackett; 1994. ISBN 0-87220-259-3 ^B – For more information about this person's contribution to philosophy see her entry in Jacqueline Broad's Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth ...
She is the author of a groundbreaking anthology, An Unconventional History of Western Philosophy: Conversations Between Men and Women Philosophers (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009). [3] The anthology explores 2600 years of Western philosophy, juxtaposing leading men and women philosophers' writing on ethics, metaphysics and other topics.
Aristotle gave equal weight to women's happiness as he did to men's, commenting in Rhetoric that a society cannot be happy unless women are happy too. [1] Aristotle believed that in nature a common good came of the rule of a superior being; he states in Politics that "By nature the female has been distinguished from the slave.
The Great Books of the Western World in 60 volumes. A university or college Great Books Program is a program inspired by the Great Books movement begun in the United States in the 1920s by John Erskine of Columbia University, which proposed to improve the higher education system by returning it to the western liberal arts tradition of broad cross-disciplinary learning.
The Man of Reason: "Male" and "Female" in Western Philosophy (1984; second edition 1993) is a book about the association between maleness and reason in western philosophy by the Australian philosopher Genevieve Lloyd. The work received positive reviews.
This is a list of feminist philosophers, that is, people who theorize about gender issues and female perspectives in different areas of philosophy This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
In 1979, she published Women in Western Political Thought, in which she details the history of the perceptions of women in western political philosophy. Her 1989 book Justice, Gender and Family is a critique of modern theories of justice.