The Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 16 August 2025
- ISBN 9780197558898
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages856 pages
- Size 248x171 mm
- Language English 700
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Short description:
The Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century challenges the misconception that there were no female philosophers during this era. It explores the diverse philosophical contributions of women, including those who wrote academic texts, novels, pamphlets, journalism, and activist writings and examines women's contributions to both philosophical movements and topics in social philosophy. It reveals that the nineteenth century was more conducive to women authors than commonly believed and discusses how factors like race and class influenced women's philosophical perspectives. The Handbook corrects the historical narrative and broadens our understanding of philosophy by showcasing the significant contributions of women philosophers.
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The Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century disrupts the widespread impression that there were no women philosophers in this period. Building on feminist histories of philosophy that cover other eras, this volume includes chapters on a wide range of women philosophers: those who wrote explicitly philosophical texts for academic audiences, others who philosophized in novels or pamphlets, and still others who philosophized through journalism or activist writings. Through fifty newly commissioned chapters, it examines the philosophical thought of individual women, including women of color, as well as chronicling women's contributions to philosophical movements such as Romanticism, Utilitarianism, Idealism, and Positivism. It also traces the philosophical arguments women used to contribute to topics in social philosophy such as socialism, feminism, abolitionism, and the philosophy of education. It outlines the history of writing and publishing in the nineteenth century, showing that circumstances were more hospitable to women authors during this time than is often assumed. It clarifies ways in which race and class affected women's philosophizing and analyzes the influence of women philosophers on their male contemporaries.
By chronicling this wealth of women's philosophy, this handbook corrects the philosophical record and enriches our understanding of philosophy. If we assume there are no women philosophers in the nineteenth century, we will not look for them; if we do not look for them, they will remain obscure, limiting our understanding of what philosophy is and can be.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century: An Introduction
Lydia Moland and Alison Stone
PART I AUTHORS
1. Elizabeth Hamilton: Moral Philosophy and Early Childhood Education
Claire Grogan
2. Mary Wollstonecraft and Wollstonecraftian Philosophy
Alan Coffee
3. Mary Shepherd on Metaphysics and Mathematics
Deborah Boyle
4. Sojourner Truth: Aesthetics, Bad Faith, and the "Night- Time" State of America
Biko Mandela Gray and Marcia C. Robinson
5. Harriet Martineau and the Empire Question
Deborah A. Logan
6. Lydia Maria Child on Truth, Beauty, and Reform
Lydia Moland
7. Maria Stewart's Biblical Theology of African American Exceptionalism
Valerie Cooper
8. Ada Augusta Lovelace: Ontology and Ethics of Operativity
Sybille Kramer
9. Frances Power Cobbe and Periodical Philosophy
Susan Hamilton
10. Ednah Dow Cheney, Philosopher of Human Progress: Ethics and Aesthetics
Therese Boos Dykeman
11. Antoinette Brown Blackwell: Woman's Rights and Woman's Evolution
Trevor Pearce
12. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: Religion and the Meaning of Democracy in America
Marcia C. Robinson
13. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky: Blavatsky's Place in the History of Philosophy
Tim Rudbog
14. Anna C. Brackett: Feminist Education in the Name of Universality
Andreas Giesbert
15. Fanny Jackson Coppin and Oberlin College: The Shaping of Her World View and Philosophy of Race, 1860- 1865
Linda M. Perkins
16. Victoria Lady Welby: Significs as Philosophy of Language
Susan Petrilli
17. "Side by Side with the Profoundest Thinkers": Amalie Hathaway and the Reception of Schopenhauer in the United States
Carol Bensick
18. Christine Ladd- Franklin
Sara L. Uckelman
19. E. E. Constance Jones and the Law of Significant Assertion
Jeanne Peijnenburg and Maria van der Schaar
20. Marietta Kies's Ethical Altruism
Rachel Falkenstern
21. Vernon Lee's Aesthetic Philosophy, 1880- 1914: Influenced and Influencer
Sally Blackburn- Daniels
22. Constance Naden
Clare Stainthorp
23. Anna Julia Cooper and Philosophy
Rachel Falkenstern
24. Jane Addams, the Settlement Women of Hull House, and the Feminist Pragmatist Orientation
Barbara J. Lowe and Jennifer Kiefer Fenton
25. Ida B. Wells: Philosopher, Ethicist, War Resister
Joy James
26. The Ethics of Mary Whiton Calkins
Kris McDaniel
27. Ella Lyman Cabot's Everyday Ethics
Samantha Matherne
PART II MOVEMENTS
28. The Aesthetics of the Romantic Period and Women's Writing
Fiona Price
29. Utopian Socialism in Britain
Federica Falchi
30. Transcendentalism: Progressive Self- Development in Mary Moody Emerson, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, and Margaret Fuller
Dean Moyar
31. Utilitarianism
Catherine Villanueva Gardner
32. Black Women's Intellectual Traditions: "These Flowers Growing Out My Mind"
Lindsey Stewart
33. Positivism
Matthew Wilson
34. American Idealists: Redrawing the Social Order
Andreja Novakovic
35. Metaphysical Idealists in Britain: Constance Naden, Victoria Welby, and Arabella Buckley
Emily Thomas
36. American Feminist Socialism 1830- 1930: A Century of Social Experimentation
Judy D. Whipps
PART III TOPICS IN SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY
37. Philosophical Themes in Nineteenth- Century
American Feminism
Rory Dicker
38. Free to Learn: Nineteenth- Century Women, the Philosophy of Education, and the Struggle for Equal Access to Education
Gia Coturri Sorenson
39. Women's Rights, Suffrage, and Feminism in Nineteenth-Century America
Dorothy Rogers
40. Abolitionism, Feminism, and Rights by Analogy: From Mary Wollstonecraft to Anna Julia Cooper
Penelope Deutscher
41. Stael's Influence on Cooper and Alcott
Sandrine Berges
42. Mary Shelley and Post- Apocalyptic Literature and Philosophy
Eileen M. Hunt
43. American and British Women Peace Activists
Wendy E. Chmielewski
44. Women Under Contract: Harriet Taylor Mill and the Value of Experiential Politics
Menaka Philips
45. Suffrage as Philosophy: Women Theorizing the Vote in Britain, 1792-1918
Arianne Chernock
46. Literature as Philosophy: Does It Matter That George Eliot Wrote Fiction?
Patrick Fessenbecker
47. Science, Religion, and Morality: Debates among Cobbe, Wedgwood, Lee, and Besant
Alison Stone
48. Sexual Politics and Ethics: Josephine Butler
Frederic Regard
49. Feminism and Women's Rights in Great Britain and Ireland: Tracking Developments and Debates Through the Case of Helen Taylor
Janet Smith
Index
