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Marriage as Slavery: Oroonoko, the Slave Trade, and the Origins of English Feminism

How liberals learned to stop worrying and love the establishment.

The expansiveness of the concept helps explain its endurance.

Abstract. Partisan Virtue recovers an overlooked tradition of thinking about partisanship in the political thought of two eighteenth-century women writers

Cambridge Core - History of Philosophy - Harriet Jacobs

Fitzwilliam Museum has uncovered student’s work from 1977 that revealed Cambridgeshire location of child’s burial place An A-level pupil found the lost grave of the Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano’s daughter, revealing a story of love and solidarity in 18th-century rural England. Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797), also known as Gustavus Vassa, escaped enslavement to become a celebrated author and campaigner in Georgian England. His memoir, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, was a bestseller. Continue reading...

Judith Drake’s Essay in Defence of the Female Sex (1696) is a unique contribution to early English feminist thought. Both scathingly funny and remarkably erudite, the work wades into a variety of phil...

Eileen O’Neill’s foundational article “Disappearing Ink: Early modern women philosophers and their fate in history” (1998) was revelatory for me as a

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Organized by Marguerite Deslauriers Registration is required. Places are limited. To register, please contact louis.doulas@mcgill.ca All talks and lunch will take place at: McGill University 527...

This​ is an essay about hands and handwriting. I think of handwriting as a way to organise thought into shapes. I like...

Thanks to Julia Jorati, it is now harder to be a researcher or teacher of early modern philosophy and not know what early modern European philosophers t...

Whenever I read claims about ‘forgotten women’, I want to ask: ‘By whom?’ Feminists? Society? The ‘culture...

In late Renaissance Florence one in five women lived behind institutional walls whose rule was sensory mortification. Historians are struggling to recover their inexpressible secrets.

The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...

Doug Ford plans to rip out bike lanes on busy streets, citing ‘insanity’ of gridlock he says they contribute to

Historians of political thought have done important and insightful work on women’s history of political thought. This scholarship has proliferated since the mid to late twentieth century and has fo...