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2.1 Front page of Johann Frawenlob’s Die Lobwürdige Gesellschafft Der Gelehrten Weiber (s.l. 1631). Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel 32

2.2 Front page of Anna Maria van Schurman’s Dissertatio (Leiden, 1641) 35

2.3 Portrait of Elisabeth of Bohemia. Engraving by Crispijn van den Queborn with an inscription by Caspar van Baerle, between 1633–1652. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum 50

10.1 Sophia Elisabet Brenner. Painting by Georg Engelhard Schröder (1684–1750) 242

10.2 First page of “Kurtze Lebens-Beschreibung” 245

10.3 The title page of Brenner’s poem to Anna Maria Ehrenstrahl, printed in the second part of her collected poetry (Poetiske Dikter, published in 1732) 253

10.4 and 10.5 Title pages of the two volumes of Brenner’s collected poetry, published in 1713 and 1732 258–259

13.1 “Mrs. Wollstonecraft”. Published in The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners (London: January 1796). Stipple engraving by William Ridley. National Portrait Gallery, London. Reference Collection [D2787] 345

13.2 “Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin” (circa 1797). Stipple engraving by James Heath. National Portrait Gallery, London, Reference Collection [D32605] 346

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Shaping Women Philosophers

Studies on the Archaeology of the Female Intellectual Identity in Early Modern Europe

Series:  Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Volume: 363
Cover Shaping Women Philosophers
E-Book ISBN:
9789004703155
Publisher:
Brill
Print Publication Date:
09 Oct 2025
  • Subjects
    • History
      • Early Modern History
      • Intellectual History
    • Philosophy
      • Early Modern Philosophy
      • Anthropology
Front Matter
Preliminary Material
Copyright Page
Acknowledgements
Figures
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Precarious Identities of Early Modern Women Philosophers
Part 1 Who Gets to Be a Philosopher? Women on the Margins of Philosophy
Chapter 2 Can Women Philosophers Be Ingenious? On the Debate about the Ingenium Philosophicum and the Case of Elisabeth of Bohemia
Chapter 3 Reading between the Lines
Chapter 4 A Philosophy of One’s Own. Wilhelmine von Bayreuth’s Thoughts on Philosophy According to a Still Unpublished Manuscript
Chapter 5 Enlightening Women: Pedagogy and Philosophy in Late 18th-Century Germany
Part 2 Empowering Women’s Thought: the Intersection of Religion and Stoicism
Chapter 6 On Divine Bondage: Obedience and Freedom of Conscience as Paths for Intellectual Inquiry in Early Modern Women’s Spiritual Writings
Chapter 7 A Radical Choice: Challenging the Standard Narrative of Anna Maria van Schurman’s Intellectual Legacy
Chapter 8 Mary Chudleigh, Stoicism, and Female Sagehood
Part 3 Defying Convention: Re-negotiating Women’s Role in the Intellectual World
Chapter 9 Subverting Supra Sexum: Birgitte Thott on Women’s Epistemic and Ethical Limits
Chapter 10 Negotiating a Career and an Intellectual Identity. Some Observations on Sophia Elisabeth Brenner’s Poetry and Correspondence
Chapter 11 Mary Wollstonecraft as Political Ecologist: The Interwoven Organisations of Human, Nature, and Commerce
Part 4 The Power of (Non-)Reception: Consolidating Gendered Identities
Chapter 12 Émilie Du Châtelet’s Philosophical Orientation and Her Excision from the Modern Canon at Its Inception
Chapter 13 The Celebration of a Female Philosophe: Mary Wollstonecraft in Åbo Tidningar 1797–1798 and 1831
Chapter 14 “Fire and Profundity, Learning and Taste”. Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht’s Philosophical Poetry and Its Fate in History
Epilogue
Chapter 15 Making Space: Female Philosophical Identity in the 21st Century
Back Matter
Index

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