The outstanding points of The Neglected Canon are that it provides a multicultural anthology of women philosophers: Chinese, European, North and Central American, that it provides a history of women philosophers through selected works from the first century to the beginning of the twentieth century, and that it provides unusual comprehensiveness in its bibliographies, biographies, and introductions to the works. In these three points it offers a more complete text than any yet on the market in this field. Designed for the readership of the advanced college student, it serves as a classroom text for a course in women philosophers, as a supplementary text to introductory courses in philosophy, or in such specific courses as epistemology. It is also designed to serve as a resource for women's history and women's studies.
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| Preface |
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xi | |
| Acknowledgments |
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xiii | |
| Introduction |
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xv | |
| First Century, C. E. |
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1 | (30) |
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Pan Chao (c. 45/51-114/120) |
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5 | (26) |
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13 | (18) |
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29 | (2) |
| Twelfth Century |
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31 | (42) |
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39 | (34) |
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Letters of Heloise to Abelard |
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51 | (22) |
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69 | (4) |
| Fourteenth Century: Before and After |
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73 | (36) |
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Marie le Jars de Gournay (1565-1645) |
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81 | (28) |
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The Equality of Men and Women |
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89 | (11) |
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100 | (9) |
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105 | (4) |
| Seventeenth Century |
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109 | (98) |
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Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1679) |
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115 | (28) |
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123 | (20) |
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139 | (4) |
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143 | (24) |
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151 | (16) |
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163 | (4) |
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Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz 1648-1695) |
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167 | (40) |
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175 | (32) |
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203 | (4) |
| Eighteenth Century |
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207 | (62) |
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Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820) |
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215 | (54) |
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On the Equality of the Sexes |
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225 | (8) |
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Observations on Female Abilities |
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233 | (36) |
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263 | (6) |
| Nineteenth Century |
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269 | (92) |
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Frances Wright (1795-1852) |
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277 | (44) |
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285 | (16) |
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301 | (20) |
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315 | (6) |
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Antoinette Brown Blackwell |
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321 | (40) |
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331 | (30) |
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357 | (4) |
| Conclusion |
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361 | (2) |
| Index |
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