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There have been many different historical-intellectual accounts of the shaping and development of concepts of liberty in pre-Enlightenment Europe. This volume is unique for addressing the subject of liberty principally as it is discussed in the writings of women philosophers, and as it is theorized with respect to women and their lives, during this period. The volume covers ethical, political, metaphysical, and religious notions of liberty, with some chapters discussing women's ideas about the metaphysics of free will, and others examining the topic of women's freedom (or lack thereof) in their moral and personal lives as well as in the public socio-political domain. In some cases, these topics are situated in relation to the emergence of the concept of autonomy in the late eighteenth century, and in others, with respect to recent feminist theorizing about relational autonomy and internalized oppression. Many of the chapters draw upon a wide range of genres, including polemical texts, poetry, plays, and other forms of fiction, as well as standard philosophical treatises. Taken as a whole, this volume shows how crucial it is to recover the too-long forgotten views of female and women-friendly male philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In the process of recovering these voices, our understanding of philosophy in the early modern period is not only expanded, but also significantly enhanced, toward a more accurate and gender-inclusive history of our discipline.
Contents
Jacqueline Broad and Karen Detlefsen: Introduction
Part I: Ethical and Political Liberty
1: Karen Detlefsen: Liberty and Feminism in Early Modern Women's Writing
2: Martina Reuter: François Poulain de la Barre on the Subjugation of Women
3: Lisa Shapiro: Gabrielle Suchon's 'Neutralist': The Status of Women and the Invention of Autonomy
4: Jacqueline Broad: Marriage, Slavery, and the Merger of Wills: Responses to Sprint, 1700-01
5: Karen Green: Locke, Enlightenment, and Liberty in the Works of Catharine Macaulay and her Contemporaries
6: Lena Halldenius: Mary Wollstonecraft and Freedom as Independence
7: Eric Schliesser: Sophie de Grouchy, The Tradition(s) of Two Liberties, and the Missing Mother(s) of Liberalism
8: Sarah Hutton: Liberty of Mind: Women Philosophers and the Freedom to Philosophize
Part II: Metaphysical and Religious Liberty
9: Deborah Boyle: Freedom and Necessity in the Work of Margaret Cavendish
10: Marcy P. Lascano: Anne Conway on Liberty
11: Alice Sowaal: Mary Astell on Liberty
12: Ruth Hagengruber: If I were King! Morals and Physics in Emilie Du Châtelet's Subtle Thoughts on Liberty
13: Emily Thomas: Creation, Divine Freedom, and Catharine Cockburn: An Intellectualist on Possible Worlds and Contingent Laws
