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Editors-in-Chief
Ruth Edith Hagengruber, Paderborn University
Karen A.H. Green, University of Melbourne

Advisory Board
Tamara Albertini, Hawaii University
Luka Boršić, Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb
Antonio Calcagno, King’s University College
John Conley, Loyola University Maryland
Dorota Dutsch, University of California, Santa Barbara
Sabrina Ebbersmeyer, Copenhagen University
Karen Anne Green, University of Melbourne
Massimo Mazzotti, University of California, Berkeley
Klaus Mainzer, Technical University of Munich
Renate Tobies, University of Jena
Gianni Paganini, University of Eastern Piedmont Amedeo Avogadro
Marie-Frédérique Pellegrin, Jean Moulin University Lyon 3
Sandra Plastina, University of Calabria
Dorothy G. Rogers, Montclair State University
Yuko Murakami, Tohoku University
Mette Lebech, Maynooth National University of Ireland
Xiao Wei, Tsinghua University
Volume 6, Issue 2
Women and the abolition of transatlantic slavery
Guest editors: Sandrine Bergès and Alan Coffee

While the enslaved had always fought their condition, and a few isolated philosophers wrote against slavery, the late eighteenth and the early nineteenth century saw the birth of a new way of resisting it: the social movement of abolitionism.
Abolitionism started as a grass root movement, led and encouraged by individuals who spread the word via pamphlets, speeches, plays, stories, and poems denouncing the horrors of the slave trade and slavery to the general public. These texts gave birth to petitions, which were presented to governments in support of the goals of the movement. These productions represent a significant moment in political thought, galvanising people to rise against an injustice that they felt did not immediately concern them and to persist until they thought that injustice was erased.
While scholarly attention has often focused on male abolitionists, such as William Wilberforece or William Lloyd Garrison, in this issue we highlight the contributions of women to the abolitionist movement, for instance by Olympe de Gouges, Germaine de Stael, Hannah More, Elizabeth Heyrick, Mary Prince, Frances Wright, Sojourner Truth, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Maria Stewart, Harriet Jacobs, Angelina Grimké and Lydia Maria Child. We encourage contributions on these or other women authors on any aspects of their work towards the abolition of slavery.

Submissions should be between 6500 and 10000 words (including note and bibliography) and conform with the journal’s style guidelines and be submitted here no later than 30 March 2027.


Volume 7, Issue 1
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Ruth Edith Hagengruber, Professor of Philosophy at Paderborn University, Germany, is Director of the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists at that university. She has published volumes and articles on the history of Women Philosophers and Scientists, including Époque Émilienne. Philosophy and Science in the Age of Émilie Du Châtelet (Springer 2022).

Karen A.H. Green is a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne, researching philosophy of language and women’s intellectual history. She is the author of many articles and books including, The Woman of Reason (1995), Dummett: Philosophy of Language (2001), A History of Women’s Political Thought in Europe, 1400-1700 (2009), with Jacqueline Broad, A History of Women’s Political Thought in Europe, 1700-1800 (2014), and Catharine Macaulay’s Republican Enlightenment (2020).

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Founded by Ruth Edith Hagengruber and Mary Ellen Waithe, the Journal of the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists (JHWP) is the world's first journal dedicated to restoring and discussing the history of the texts written by and about women philosophers. The Journal of the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists seeks to integrate women’s intellectual heritage into the canon of philosophy, the humanities, and the natural and social sciences. It publishes peer-reviewed articles about women’s contributions to these disciplines. The time period investigated by articles in the Journal of the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists ranges from 2200 BCE to the 20th century CE in both the Western and non-Western world. The Journal of the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists publishes biannually thematic issues on particular philosophical topics. Leading philosophers from all over the world in the corresponding fields serve as guest editors of the relevant issue. Each issue is a collected anthology of continuing interest. The Journal of the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists understands itself as a renewal of philosophy and a critical instrument to the hitherto studied traditions.
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