A Woman Who Defends All the Persons of Her Sex: Selected Philosophical and Moral Writings

by Gabrielle Suchon

Book Overview

During the oppressive reign of Louis XIV, Gabrielle Suchon (1632-1703) was the most forceful female voice in France, advocating women's freedom and self-determination, access to knowledge, and assertion of authority. This volume collects Suchon's writing from two works--Treatise on Ethics and Politics (1693) and On the Celibate Life Freely Chosen; or, Life without Commitments (1700)--and demonstrates her to be an original philosophical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226779211
• ISBN13: 9780226779218
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"