Table of Contents

CONTENTS Series Introduction: Elizabeth K. Minnich Introduction: Sara Ebenreck and Cecile T. Tougas Part I. The Loss and the Recovery of Women's Voices: Introduced by Sara Ebenreck 1. Why Have There Been So Few Women Philosophers? -- Gerda Lerner 2. Introduction to A Voice from the South -- Mary Helen Washington Part II.Naming Reality -- Differently: Introduced by Sara Ebenreck 1. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179): A New Medieval Philosopher? -- Helen J. John, S.N.D. 2. Ednah Dow Cheney's (182401904) American Aesthetics -- Therese B. Dykeman 3. Jane Addams's (1860-1935) Feminist Ethics -- Marilyn Fischer 4. Moral Wisdom in the Black Women's Literary Tradition -- Katie Geneva Cannon 5. Susanne K. Langer's (1895-1985) Conception of "Symbol": Making Connections Through Ambiguity -- Beatrice K. Nelson 6. Hannah Arendt (1906-1975): On the Relation of Thinking and Morality -- Elizabeth K. Minnich 7. Hannah Arendt (1960-1975) and Susan Griffin (1943-): Storytelling -- Toward a Feminist Metahistory --Shari Stone-Mediatore 8. Finding New Roots as a Woman Philosopher -- Sara Ebenreck Part III. Philosophical Friendships: Introduced by Cecile T. Tougas 1. Heloise (1101-1164) and Abelard -- Mary Ellen Waithe 2. Elisabeth, Princess Palatine (1618-1680): Letters to Rene Descartes -- Andrea Nye 3. Gloria Ansaldua's (1942-) Borderlands / la Frontera and Rene Descartes's Discourse of Method: Moving Beyond the Canon in Discussion of Philosophical Ideas -- Lisa A. Bergin 4. Mary Astell (1666-1731): A Pre-Humean Christian Empiricist and Feminist -- Jane Duran 5. Harriet Taylor Mill's (1807-1858) Collaboration with John Stuart Mill -- Jo-Ellen Jacobs 6. Philosophical Friendship, 1996: A Postscript -- Cecile T. Tougas 7. Poems from Fifty Forms for Fifty Philosophers -- Veda A. Cobb-Stevens Part IV. Love, Feeling, and Community: Introduced by Cecile T. Tougas 1. Christine de Pizan (1364-1430) and Jehanne d'Arc: "Above All the Heroes Past" -- Tracy Adams 2. Madame de Sable's (1599-1678) Moral Philosophy: A Jansenist Salon -- John J. Conley 3. A Woman-Centered Philosophy: An Alternative to Enlightenment Thought (1700-1750) -- Ann Willeford 4. Madame de Condorcet's (1764-1822) Letters on Sympathy -- Karin Brown 5. Iris Murdoch's (1919-1999) Concept of Love and The Bell -- Patricia J. O'Connor 6. Why I Have Worked on this Book for Several Years -- Cecile T. Tougas Biographical Notes

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Women's unique outlook on life reveals itself in philosophical thought throughout the ages

About the Author

Cecile T. Tougas, formerly an Assistant Professor of Philosophy, is a teacher of Latin and algebra at Ben Franklin Academy in Atlanta. Sara Ebenreck is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at St. Mary's College of Maryland.

Reviews

"One of the strengths of Presenting Women Philosophers is the way that it integrates accounts of women's lives with their work, while providing well-thought-out assessments of that work. Another is that it develops and analyzes work that simply is not otherwise available... [This book] examines the writings of women philosophers in a way that no other book to my knowledge does, and it is thematically well-integrated." --Charlene Haddock Seigfried, Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University