Tyson, Sarah.

Where Are the Women? Why Expanding the Archive Makes Philosophy Better / Sarah Tyson. - New York : Columbia University Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource (319 pages)

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Intro; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Reclamation Strategies; 2. Conceptual Exclusion; 3. Reclamation from Absence; 4. Insults and Their Possibilities; 5. From Exclusion to Reclamation; 6. Injuries and Usurpations; Conclusion; Appendix A: The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions; Appendix B: Printed Versions of Sojourner Truth's Speech at the Women's Rights Convention in 1851 in Akron, Ohio; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sarah Tyson makes a powerful case for how redressing women's exclusion can make philosophy better. She argues that engagements with historical thinkers typically afforded little authority can transform the field.



9780231545259


Women philosophers.


Electronic Books.

B105 / .W447 2018