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.