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Ancient Women Philosophers: A Very Short Introduction

Ancient Women Philosophers: A Very Short Introduction

Dutsch, Dorota

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Series: Very Short Introductions

PhilosophyWomen's Studies

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ISBN10: 0192886150
ISBN13: 9780192886156
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Pages: 160
Language: English
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring

From the world's earliest named author, Enheduana of Ur, to the mathematician-mystic Hypatia of Alexandria, women across the ancient world thought deeply about power, justice, desire, selfhood, governance, and household ethics. Their ideas survive in poems, courtly debates, ritual songs, inscriptions, pseudonymous treatises, and the voices of female sages woven through philosophical dialogues from India to Greece. Rather than exceptions, these women form a tradition hidden in plain sight.

This Very Short Introduction draws on recent scholarship and a flexible definition of women, and follows all who traveled under that sign in antiquity: priestesses, court historians, household advisors, renunciants, Christian teachers, and poets. It reframes philosophy not as a credentialed profession but as a way of life, expressed through weaving, stitching, lamentation, singing, and the management of daily care. In this broader view, domestic spaces become laboratories of ethical thought, and intellectual labor resembles Ban Zhao's needlework: connecting, strengthening, and binding ideas across generations.

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