The Wives of Western Philosophy: Gender Politics in Intellectual Labor

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
1 Married to the Canon: Writing the History of Western Philosophy
2 Xanthippe: Shrew or Muse
3 Self-Sacrifice as Wifely Virtue in Aristotle’s Political Theory
4 Authoring Machiavelli: Barbera Salutati, La Mandragola, and the Performance of Political Theory
5 Educating Gentlewomen: The Women of Locke’s Circle and their Influence on Some Thoughts Concerning Education
6 Jeanne de Lartigue, Madame de Montesquieu: Calvinist Refugee and Wife of an Enlightenment Philosopher
7 Thérèse Levasseur’s Improvised Life with Rousseau
8 The Hidden Labors of Mary Mottley, Madame de Tocqueville
9 The “Beloved and Deplored” Memory of Harriet Taylor Mill: Rethinking Gender and Intellectual Labor in the Canon
10 “Mere Auxiliaries to the Movement”: How Intellectual Biography Obscures Marx’s and Engels’s Gendered Political Partnerships
11 The Future of Intellectual Labor
Index