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A HISTORY OF WOMEN’S POLITICAL
THOUGHT IN EUROPE, 1400–1700
This ground-breaking book surveys the history of women’s political
thought in Europe, from the late medieval period to the early modern
era. The authors examine women’s ideas about topics such as the
basis of political authority, the best form of anisation,
justifications of obedience and resistance, and concepts of liberty,
toleration, sociability, equality, and self-preservation. Women’s ideas
concerning relations between the sexes are discussed in tandem with
their broader political outlooks; the authors demonstrate that the
development of a distinctively sexual politics is reflected in women’s
critiques of marriage, the double standard, and women’s exclusion
from government. Women writers are also shown to be indebted to
the ancient idea of political virtue, and to be acutely aware of being
part of a long tradition of female mentary. This work
will be of tremendous interest to political philosophers, historians of
ideas, and feminist scholars alike.
jacqueline broad is an Honorary Research Associate in the
School of Philosophy and Bioethics at Monash University. She
is author of Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century (2002)
and co-editor with Karen Green of Virtue, Liberty, and Toleration:
Political Ideas of European Women, 1400–1800 (2007).
karen green is Associate Professor in the School of Philosophy
and Bioethics at Monash University. She is author of Dummett:
Philosophy of Language (2001) and The Woman of Reason (1995).
A HISTORY OF WOMEN’S
POLITICAL THOUGHT IN
EUROPE, 1400–1700
JACQUELINE BROAD
AND
KAREN GREEN
Monash University
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo
Cambridge University Press
The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK
Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York
Information on this title: 052188817