Virtue, Liberty, and Toleration: Political Ideas of European Women, 1400-1800Jacqueline Broad, Karen Green This volume serves as an introduction to a rich and as yet under-explored period in the history of women’s ideas. The volume provides a partial insight into the richness and complexity of women’s political ideas in the centuries prior to the French Revolution. The essays in this collection examine women’s political writings with particular reference to the themes of virtue (especially the virtue of phronesis or prudence), liberty, and toleration. |
Contents
Female Regency and Mariology | 1 |
Prudence from Christine de Pizan to Elizabeth I | 24 |
Negotiating | 39 |
Machiavelli in Skirts Isabella dEste and Politics | 57 |
Womens Political Writings of | 82 |
Margaret Cavendish and the False Universal | 95 |
The Social and Political Thought of Damaris Cudworth Masham | 111 |
Mary Astells Christian Political Polemics | 123 |
Virtue God and Stoicism in the Thought of Elizabeth Carter | 137 |
Catharine Macaulay and Mary Wollstonecraft on the Will | 149 |
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Virtue, Liberty, and Toleration: Political Ideas of European Women, 1400-1800 Jacqueline Broad,Karen Green No preview available - 2007 |
Virtue, Liberty, and Toleration: Political Ideas of European Women, 1400-1800 Jacqueline Broad,Karen Green No preview available - 2010 |
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