A Serious Proposal to the Ladies
Author : Mary Astell
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Page : 184 pages
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Category : Conduct of life
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Author : Mary Astell
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Page : 184 pages
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Category : Conduct of life
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Page : 314 pages
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Page : 162 pages
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Author : Mary Astell
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Author : Mary Astell
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Page : 322 pages
File Size : 12,2 MB
Release : 1697
Category : Feminism
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Author : Mary Astell
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 21,26 MB
Release : 2023-08-22
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ISBN : 3368376845
Author : Patricia Springborg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 23,28 MB
Release : 2005-12-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139447768
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.
Author : Christine Mason Sutherland
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 32,40 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1552381536
The Eloquence of Mary Astell makes an important contribution to the knowledge and understanding of the important role that women, and one woman in particular, played in the history of rhetoric. Mary Astell (1666-1731) was an unusually perceptive thinker and writer during the time of the Enlightenment. Here, author Christine Sutherland explores her importance as a rhetorician, an area that has, until recently, received little attention. Astell was widely known and respected during her own time, but her influence and reputation receded in the years after her death. Her importance as an Enlightenment thinker is becoming more and more recognized, however. As a skilled theorist and practitioner of rhetoric, Astell wrote extensively on education, philosophy, politics, religion, and the status of women. She showed that it was possible for a woman to move from the semi-private form of rhetoric represented by conversation and letters into full public participation in philosophical and political debate.
Author : Mary Astell
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 49,39 MB
Release : 2002-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1551113066
Mary Astell’s A Serious Proposal to the Ladies is one of the most important and neglected works advocating the establishment of women’s academies. Its reception was so controversial that Astell responded with a lengthy sequel, also in this volume. The cause of great notoriety, Astell’s Proposal was imitated by Defoe in his “An Academy for Women,” parodied in the Tatler, satirized on the stage, plagiarized by Bishop Berkeley, and later mocked by Gilbert and Sullivan in Princess Ida.