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Canon Fodder: Historical Women Political Thinkers

Canon Fodder: Historical Women Political Thinkers

Weiss, Penny A.

Hardcover

PhilosophyGeneral Political ScienceWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0271035196
ISBN13: 9780271035192
Publisher: Penn St Univ Pr
Published: Jul 17 2009
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

This book is an exercise in the recovery of historical memory about a set of thinkers who have been forgotten or purposely ignored and, as a result, never made it into the canon of Western political philosophy. Penny Weiss calls them canon fodder, recalling the fate of soldiers in war who are treated by their governments and military leaders as expendable. Despite some real progress at recovery over the past few decades, and the now-frequent references to a few female thinkers like Mary Wollstonecraft, Hannah Arendt, and Simone de Beauvoir, the surface has only been scratched, and the rich resources of women's writings about political ideas remain still largely untapped. Included here, and intended to further whet the palate, are figures from Sei Shōnagon, Christine de Pizan, and Mary Astell to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Anna Julia Cooper, and Emma Goldman.

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