Political Ideas of Enlightenment Women: Virtue and Citizenship

by Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt, Paul Gibbard, Karen Green

Book Overview

This edited collection showcases the contribution of women to the development of political ideas during the Enlightenment, and presents an alternative to the male-authored canon of philosophy and political thought. Over the course of the eighteenth century increasing numbers of women went into print, and they exploited both new and traditional forms to convey their political ideas: from plays, poems, and novels to essays, journalism, annotated translations,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032924551
• ISBN13: 9781032924557
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 264 Pages