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Mary Astell : = theorist of freedom from domination /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Mary Astell :/ Patricia Springborg.
Reminder of title:	theorist of freedom from domination /
Author:	Springborg, Patricia,
Description:	1 online resource (xix, 372 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Women's rights - History - 18th century. - Great Britain -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511499203
ISBN:	9780511499203 (ebook)

Mary Astell : = theorist of freedom from domination /
Springborg, Patricia,

Mary Astell :theorist of freedom from domination /Patricia Springborg. - 1 online resource (xix, 372 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Introduction : Astell and early modern feminism -- Mary Astell, philosopher, theologian and polemicist -- Astell, Drake, education, epistemology and the Serious proposal -- Astell on marriage, patriarchalism and contractarianism -- Mary Astell and the Settlement of 1689 -- A fair way with the dissenters and their patrons -- Astell, Locke and the highwayman : a test case -- Astell, Drake and the legacy of freedom.

Philosopher, theologian, educational theorist, feminist and political pamphleteer, Mary Astell was an important figure in the history of ideas of the early modern period. Among the first systematic critics of John Locke's entire corpus, she is best known for the famous question which prefaces her Reflections on Marriage: 'If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?' She is claimed by modern Republican theorists and feminists alike but, as a Royalist High Church Tory, the peculiar constellation of her views sits uneasily with modern commentators. Patricia Springborg's study addresses these apparent paradoxes, recovering the historical and philosophical contexts to her thought. She shows that Astell was not alone in her views; rather, she was part of a cohort of early modern women philosophers who were important for the reception of Descartes and who grappled with the existential problems of a new age.

ISBN: 9780511499203 (ebook)Subjects--Personal Names:

1445158
Astell, Mary,
1668-1731--Political and social views.Subjects--Topical Terms:

799319
Women's rights
--History--Great Britain--18th century.

LC Class. No.: JC176.A88 / S67 2005

Dewey Class. No.: 305.42/092

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