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Perspectives on Feminist Political Thought in European History: From the Middle Ages to the Present

by Tjitske Akkerman, Siep Stuurman. 246 pgs.

Contributors:

   Tjitske Akkerman, Siep Stuurman

Publisher:

   Routledge

Place of Publication:

  London  

Publication Year:

  1998

	Contents
	List of illustrations	vii
	Notes on contributors	viii
	Acknowledgments	x
	1 Introduction: feminism in European history	1
	Tjitske Akkerman and
	Siep Stuurman
	2 The languages of late-medieval feminism	34
	Miri Rubin
	3 A ‘learned wave’: women of letters and science from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment	50
	Brita Rang
	4 L’égalité des sexes qui ne se conteste plus en France: feminism in the seventeenth century	67
	Siep Stuurman
	5 Reclaiming the European Enlightenment for feminism: or prologomena to any future history of eighteenth-century Europe	85
	Karen Offen
	6 Culture as a gendered battleground: the patronage of Madame de Pompadour	104
	Inge E. Boer
	7 A woman’s struggle for a language of enlightenment and virtue: Mary Wollstonecraft and Enlightenment ‘feminism’	122
	Virginia Sapiro
	8 French utopians: the word and the act	136
	Claire G. Moses
	9 Equality and difference: utopian feminism in Britain	150
	Ruth Levitas
	10 Liberalism and feminism in late nineteenth-century Britain	168
	Tjitske Akkerman
	11 Feminists and sex: how to find lesbians at the turn of the century	186
	Martha Vicinus
	12 Beauvoir’s philosophy as the hidden paradigm of contemporary feminism	203
	Karen Vintges
	13 Contemporary feminism between individualism and community	218
	Jet Bussemaker
	Guide to further reading	234
	Index	237

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