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^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 ...
Historians of philosophy are faced with two main problems. The first being the exclusion of women philosophers from history and philosophy texts, which leads to a lack of knowledge about women philosophers among philosophy students. The second problem deals with what the canonical philosophers had to say about philosophy and women's place in it.
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.
Hypatia's death sent shockwaves throughout the empire; [40] [111] for centuries, philosophers had been seen as effectively untouchable during the displays of public violence that sometimes occurred in Roman cities and the murder of a female philosopher at the hand of a mob was seen as "profoundly dangerous and destabilizing". [111]
Philosophy portal The main articles for this category are women in philosophy and list of women philosophers . This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Philosophers .
Male feminist, wrote Declamatio de nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus (Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex), a book pronouncing the theological and moral superiority of women [13] 1500–1599: Jane Anger: United Kingdom: fl. 1589: fl. 1589: Protofeminist writer of Jane Anger her Protection for Women [14] 1500 ...
She was best known for her "trailblazing work in feminist philosophy", [8] The Second Sex (1949), a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism. She was also known for her novels, the most famous of which were She Came to Stay (1943) and The Mandarins (1954).
The women were gathered together in the Vélodrome d'Hiver on 15 May, so Hannah Arendt's mother, being older than 55, was allowed to stay in Paris. Arendt described the process of making refugees as "the new type of human being created by contemporary history ... put into concentration camps by their foes and into internment camps by their ...