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This collection of essays includes studies of women's political writings from Christine de Pizan to Mary Wollstonecraft and explores in depth the political ideas of the writers in their historical and intellectual context. The volume illuminates the limitations placed on women's political writings and their broader political role by the social and scholarly institutions of early modern Europe. In so doing, the authors probe legal and political restraints, distinct national and state organisation, and assumptions concerning women's proper intellectual interests. In this endeavour, the volume explores questions and subjects traditionally ignored by historians of political thought and little considered even by current feminist theorists, groups who give slight attention to women's political ideas or place women's writings within the social and intellectual structures from which they emerged and which they helped to shape.

Essays on women's political writings from Christine de Pizan to Mary Wollstonecraft, 1500?1800.

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CONTENTS

List of contributors = ⅸ

Preface = xiii

Introduction : Women, intellect, and politics : their intersection in seventeenth-century England / HILDA L. SMITH = 1

Part Ⅰ Women's political writings, 1400-1690

 1 Christine de Pizan and the origins of peace theory / BERENICE A. CARROLL = 22

 2 Political thought/political action : Margaret Cabendish's Hobbesian dilemma / ANNA BATTIGELLI = 40

 3 Women's public political voice in England : 1640-1740 / LOIS G. SCHWOERER = 56

 4 Contextualizing Aphra Behn : plays, poitics, and party, 1679-1689 / MELINDA ZOOK = 75

Part Ⅱ Women's political and philosophical writings, 1690-1800 = 95

 5 Astell, Masham, and Locke : religion and politics / PATRICIA SPRINGBORG = 105

 6 The politics of sense and sensibility : Mary Wollstonecraft and Catharine Macaulay Graham on Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France / WENDY GUNTHER-CANADA = 126

 7 Mary Wollstonecraft on sensibility, women's rights, and patriarchal power / MARY LYNDON SHANLEY = 148

 8 Emilie du Ch$$\hat a$$telet : genius, gender, and intellectual authority / JUDITH P. ZINSSER = 168

Part Ⅲ The intellectual context and economic setting for early modern women = 191

 9 Contract and coercion : power and gender in Leviathan / JANE S. JAQUETTE = 200

 10 The significant sounds of silence : the absence of women from the political thought of Sir Robert Filmer and John Locke(or, “Why can't a woman be more like a man?”) / GORDON SCHOCHET = 220

 11 Catharine Macaulay : patriot historian / J. G. A. POCOCK = 243

 12 Investments, votes, and "bribes" : women as shareholders in the chartered national companies / SUSAN STAVES = 259

Part Ⅳ Eerly modern legal and political prescription for women = 279

 13 The politics of identity and monarchic government in France ; the debate over female exclusion / SARAH HANLEY = 289

 14 The Holy Roman Empire : women and politics beyond liberalism, individual rights, and revoutionary theory / MERRY WIESNER = 305

 15 Women as sextons and electors : King's Bench and precedents for women's citizenship / HILDA L. SMITH = 324

 16 "To be some body" : married women and The Hardships of the English Laws / BARBARA J. TODD = 343

Conclusion : women's writing, women's standing : theory and politics in the early modern period / CAROLE PATEMAN = 363

Index = 383