POLITICAL IDEAS OF ENLIGHTENMENT WOMEN
Political Ideas of Enlightenment Women
Virtue and Citizenship
Edited by
LISA CURTIS-WENDLANDT
Monash University, Australia
PAUL GIBBARD
The University of Western Australia
and
KAREN GREEN
Monash University, Australia
First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing
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Political ideas of Enlightenment women: virtue and citizenship / edited by Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt, Paul Gibbard and Karen Green.
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Contents
Judith P. Zinsser
Paul Gibbard
Felicia Gordon
Calogero Alberto Petix and Karen Green
Erica J. Mannucci
Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt
Marianna DEzio
Steven Kale
Elizabeth M.K.A. Sund
Karen Green
Mary Caputi
Jeanette Ehrmann
Lesa N Mhunghaile
Notes on the Contributors
Mary Caputi is a Professor of Political Theory at California State University, Long Beach, where she has taught since 1995, researching in postcolonial scholarship, cultural studies, contemporary political thought, and psychoanalysis. She recently published Feminism and Power: The Need for Critical Theory (Lexington, 2013), and with Vincent Del Casino, Jr. co-edited Derrida and the Future of the Liberal Arts (Continuum, 2013). Earlier publications include A Kinder, Gentler America (University of Minnesota Press, 2005) and Voluptuous Yearnings (Rowman and Littlefield, 1994).
Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt is an Adjunct Research Fellow in the School of Philosophical, Historical, and International Studies at Monash University, where she worked on the ARC-funded research project A History of Womens Political Thought in Europe, 17001800 between 2009 and 2011. She holds a PhD in History from Monash University, as well as an MA in Philosophy and English Philology from the Technical University and the Free University of Berlin, Germany. Her publications have been in feminist philosophy and Ancient Greek philosophy, as well as in the history of missions.
Marianna DEzio completed a PhD in English Literature at the University of Rome Sapienza. A resident in Italy, she has taught English at three universities (Cassino, Perugia, and Rome) and Italian at the University of California Rome Study Center. She has researched eighteenth-century literature and travel writing (especially of women writers) and produced many conference papers and articles, for example, on eighteenth-century womens travels in Italy. She wrote Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi: A Taste for Eccentricity (Cambridge Scholars, 2010) and a grammar book of English for Italian speakers (Grammatica Inglese, Mondadori, 2010), and she edited the collection Literary and Cultural Intersections during the Long Eighteenth Century (Cambridge Scholars, 2008).
Jeanette Ehrmann is a PhD candidate in Political Science at Goethe University Frankfurt and a fellow of the Franco-German doctorate program Normes et constructions sociales at Universit Paris I Panthon-Sorbonne. Her thesis deals with the Haitian Revolution as an event and critique of European modernity.
Paul Gibbard wrote his doctorate on anarchism in late nineteenth-century French and English literature at the University of Oxford, where he subsequently worked as a post-doctoral researcher and editor of the uvres compltes de Voltaire (Complete Works of Voltaire) at the Voltaire Foundation. He has also taken part in The Baudin Legacy research project at the University of Adelaide, and conducted research on eighteenth-century womens political thought and Octavie Belot while a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Philosophy at Monash University. He is currently Assistant Professor of French at the University of Western Australia.
Felicia Gordon, Senior Research Associate (formerly Principal Lecturer in Philosophy and European Literature) at Anglia Ruskin University, is a Senior Member of Wolfson College, Cambridge and has published in womens history and early French feminism. She is the author of The Integral Feminist: Madeleine Pelletier, 18741939 (Polity Press, 1990), Early French Feminisms, 18301940 with Mire Cross (Edward Elgar, 1996), Marie-Madeleine Jodin, 17411790 with P.N. Furbank (Ashgate, 2001). With Gina Luria Walker she edited Rational Passions: Women and Scholarship in Britain, 17021870 (Broadview Press, 2008). She has recently published a biography of Frances first woman psychiatrist: Constance Pascal (18771937): Authority, Femininity and Feminism in French Psychiatry (The Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London, 2013).
Karen Green is Associate Professor in the School of Philosophical, Historical, and International Studies at Monash University. She is the author, with Jacqueline Broad, of A History of Womens Political Thought in Europe, 14001700 (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and editor with her of Virtue, Liberty, and Toleration: Political Ideas of European Women, 14001800 (Springer, 2007). With Constant Mews and Janice Pinder she translated Christine de Pizans Book of Peace (Penn State Press, 2008) and edited with Constant Mews Virtue Ethics for Women 12501500
