Table of contents for Presenting women philosophers / edited by Cecile T. Tougas and Sara Ebenreck.

Contents

Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich
Series Foreword xi

Acknowledgments xiii

Sara Ebenreck and Cecile T. Tougas
Introduction xv

I. The Loss and the Recovery of Women's Voices

Sara Ebenreck
Introduction to Part I           3

1. Gerda Lerner
Why Have There Been So Few Women Philosophers? 5

2. Mary Helen Washington
Introduction to A Voice From the South 15

II. Naming Reality-Differently

Sara Ebenreck
Introduction to Part II                 27

3. Helen J. John, S.N.D.
Hildegard of Bingen: A New Medieval Philosopher? 31

4. Therese B. Dykeman
Ednah Dow Cheney's American Aesthetics 41

5. Marilyn Fischer
Jane Addams's Feminist Ethics 51

6. Katie Geneva Cannon
Moral Wisdom in the Black Women's Literary Tradition 59

7. Beatrice K. Nelson
Susanne K. Langer's Conception of "Symbol": Making
Connections through Ambiguity 71

8. Elizabeth K. Minnich
Hannah Arendt: On the Relation of Thinking and Morality 81

9. Shari Stone-Mediatore
Hannah Arendt and Susan Griffin: Toward a Feminist
Metahistory 91

10. Sara Ebenreck
Finding New Roots as a Woman Philosopher 105

III. Philosophical Friendships

Cecile T. Tougas
Introduction to Part III            111

11. Mary Ellen Waithe
Heloise and Abelard 117

12. Andrea Nye
Elisabeth, Princess Palatine: Letters to Rene Descartes 129

13. Lisa A. Bergin
Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands/La Frontera and Rene
Descartes's Discourse on Method: Moving beyond the Canon
in Discussion of Philosophical Ideas 139

14. Jane Duran
Mary Astell: A Pre-Humean Christian Empiricist and
Feminist 147

15. Jo Ellen Jacobs
Harriet Taylor Mill's Collaboration with John Stuart Mill 155

16. Veda A. Cobb-Stevens
Poems from Fifty Forms for Fifty Philosophies 167

17. Cecile T. Tougas
Philosophical Friendship, 1996: A Postscript 175

IV Love, Feeling, and Community

Cecile T. Tougas
Introduction to Part IV 181

18. Tracy Adams
Christine de Pizan and Jehanne d'Arc: Above All the
Heroes Past 187

19. John J. Conley
Madame de Sable's Moral Philosophy: A Jansenist Salon 201

20. Ann Willeford
A Woman-Centered Philosophy: An Alternative to

Enlightenment Thought (1700-1750)    213

21. Karin Brown
Madame de Condorcet's Letters on Sympathy 225

22. Patricia J. O'Connor
Iris Murdoch: Love and The Bell 239

23. Cecile T. Tougas
Why I Have Worked on This Book for Several Years 253

Contributors 259

Index 263