Feminist Interpretations of Mary Astell

Alice Sowaal, Penny A. Weiss (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

2016
Pennsylvania State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-271-07124-4 (ISBN)

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A collection of essays on the early modern English writer, proto-feminist, and rhetorician Mary Astell. Includes discussions on human nature, equality, rationality, power, freedom, friendship, marriage, and education.

Often referred to as a proto-feminist, early modern English philosopher and rhetorician Mary Astell was a pious supporter of monarchy who wrote about gender equality at a time when society tightly constrained female agency. This diverse collection of essays situates her ideas in feminist, historical, and philosophical contexts.

Focusing on Astell’s work and thought, this book explores the degree to which she can be considered a “feminist” in light of her adherence to Cartesianism, Christian theology, and Tory politics. The contributors explore the philosophical underpinnings of Astell’s outspoken advocacy for the autonomy and education of women; examine the intricacies underlying her theories of power, community, and female resistance to unlawful authority; and reveal the similarities between her own philosophy of gender and sexual politics and feminist theorizing today.

A broad-ranging look at one of the most important female writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this volume will be especially valuable to students and scholars of feminist history and philosophy and the early modern era.

Aside from the editors, the contributors are Kathleen A. Ahearn, Jacqueline Broad, Karen Detlefsen, Susan Paterson Glover, Marcy P. Lascano, Elisabeth Hedrick Moser, Christine Mason Sutherland, and Nancy Tuana.

Alice Sowaal is Associate Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. She has written widely on Descartes and Mary Astell. Penny A. Weiss is Professor of Political Science at Saint Louis University. Her most recent book is Cannon Fodder: Historical Women Political Figures, also published by Penn State University Press.

Contents

Preface

Nancy Tuana

Acknowledgments

1Locations and Legacies: Reading Mary Astell and Re-Reading the Canon

Penny A. Weiss

2Mary Astell and the Virtues

Jacqueline Broad

3Mary Astell’s Account of Feminine Self-Esteem

Kathleen A. Ahearn

4Mary Astell and the Development of Vice: Pride, Courtship, and the Woman’s Human Nature Question

Alice Sowaal

5Custom, Freedom, and Equality: Mary Astell on Marriage and Women’s Education

Karen Detlefsen

6Further Reflections upon Marriage: Mary Astell and Sarah Chapone

Susan Paterson Glover

7Mary Astell: Some Reflections upon Trauma

Elisabeth Hedrick Moser

8“From the Throne to Every Private Family”: Mary Astell as Analyst of Power

Penny A. Weiss

9Mary Astell’s Feminism: A Rhetorical Perspective

Christine Mason Sutherland

10Mary Astell on the Existence and Nature of God

Marcy P. Lascano

11The Emerging Picture of Mary Astell’s Views

Alice Sowaal

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	28.05.2016
Reihe/Serie	Re-Reading the Canon
Verlagsort	University Park
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	476 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-271-07124-9 / 0271071249
ISBN-13	978-0-271-07124-4 / 9780271071244
Zustand	Neuware