An Introduction to the Volume

The present volume features a collection of research papers developed through the scholarly network New Voices on Women in the History of Philosophy. The volume serves the purpose of recovering the work of brilliant women in the history of philosophy, politics, science and literature. It contains a compendium of selected papers on the work of intellectual women from across the ages and hailing from innumerable places. It boasts papers on Marie de Gournay, Elizabeth of Bohemia, Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht, Anne Conway, Margaret Cavendish, Émilie Du Châtelet, Clarice Lispector, Edith Stein, Gerda Walther, Hannah Arendt, Iris Murdoch, Maria Gołaszewska, as well as a paper on the literary figure, Antigone.