Fictions of a feminine philosophical <i>persona</i>: Christine de Pizan, Margaret Cavendish and <i>philosophia</i> lost
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Twentieth-century analytic philosophy has tended to gloss over historical research into the late medieval period and to accept with little criticism an Enlightenment account of the history of ideas. This history posits an uninterrupted progress in ideas from the Enlightenment to the present, with each step representing an advance toward the modern ideal of philosophical inquiry. Analytic feminist philosophers have not been immune to this worldview. In the 1970s, feminism was at first represented as a completely new progressive phenomenon. Soon, however, research into the nineteenth-century women's movement led to it being called ‘second-wave feminism’. Further research pushed our knowledge of women's engagement with issues such as women's rights and women's exclusion from education back to before the French Revolution. But the assumption remained that feminism had its intellectual origins in the progress of men's ideas – in liberalism or socialism or at least in Enlightenment thought.
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Twentieth-century analytic philosophy has tended to gloss over historical research into the late medieval period and to accept with little criticism an Enlightenment account of the history of ideas. This history posits an uninterrupted progress in ideas from the Enlightenment to the present, with each step representing an advance toward the modern ideal of philosophical inquiry. Analytic feminist philosophers have not been immune to this worldview. In the 1970s, feminism was at first represented as a completely new progressive phenomenon. Soon, however, research into the nineteenth-century women's movement led to it being called ‘second-wave feminism’. Further research pushed our knowledge of women's engagement with issues such as women's rights and women's exclusion from education back to before the French Revolution. But the assumption remained that feminism had its intellectual origins in the progress of men's ideas – in liberalism or socialism or at least in Enlightenment thought.
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