Eighteen Amazing Women Philosophers: You Should Have Learned About In School But Probably Didn't!

The development of women's philosophical thought spans the three waves of feminism starting in the late 1800s. This history did not spring from a vacuum. Before the early suffragettes lies a plethora of amazing, smart-thinking women pepared to speak up and to suffer for their beliefs - and so it continues. Learn about Hypatia of Alexandria, Murasaki Shikubu, Marie le Jars de Gournay, Mary Wollstonecroft, Sojourner Truth, Ernestine Rose, Ada Lovelace, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ayn Rand, Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Simone Weil, Philippa Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, Iris Murdoch, Mary Warnock, Mary Midgley and Mary Beard. These women, and others like them, blazed trails for feminism and helped change the world and the way we think today. We can only wonder at their great achievements.

• | Author: Janet Cameron Ma
• | Publisher: Independently published
• | Publication Date: Jun 07, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 122 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1072689596
• | ISBN-13: 9781072689591