Empowerment and Interconnectivity : : Toward a Feminist History of Utilitarian Philosophy / / Catherine Villanueva Gardner.

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• VerfasserIn: Gardner, Catherine Villanueva,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)

Feminist history of philosophy has successfully focused thus far on canon revision, canon critique, and the recovery of neglected or forgotten women philosophers. However, the methodology remains underexplored, and it seems timely to ask larger questions about how the history of philosophy is to be done and whether there is, or needs to be, a specifically feminist approach to the history of philosophy. In Empowerment and Interconnectivity, Catherine Gardner examines the philosophy of three neglected women philosophers, Catharine Beecher, Frances Wright, and Anna Doyle Wheeler, all of whom were British or American utilitarian philosophers of one stripe or another. Gardner’s focus in this book is less on accounting for the neglect or disappearance of these women philosophers and more on those methodological (or epistemological) questions we need to ask in order to recover their philosophy and categorize it as feminist.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Empowerment and Interconnectivity -- 1 Wheeler and Thompson: The Appeal and the Problem of Empowerment -- 2 Catharine Beecher and writing philosophy for women -- 3 Frances Wright: Interconnectivity and Synthesis -- 4 Tea and Sympathy with John Stuart Mill -- Conclusion and Next Steps -- References -- Index