Presenting women philosophers

Why have there been so few women philosophers? / Gerda Lerner

Introduction to A voice from the south / Mary Helen Washington

Hildegard of Bingen: a new medieval philosopher? / Helen J. John

Ednah Dow Cheney's American aesthetics / Therese B. Dykeman

Jane Addams's feminist ethics / Marilyn Fischer

Moral wisdom in the black women's literary tradition / Katie Geneva Cannon

Susanne K. Langer's conception of "symbol": making connections through ambiguity / Beatrice K. Nelson

Hannah Arendt: on the relation of thinking and morality / Elizateth K. Minnich

Hannah Arendt and Susan Griffin: toward a feminist metahistory / Shari Stone-Mediatore

Finding new roots as a woman philosopher / Sara Ebenreck

Heloise and Abelard / Mary Ellen Waithe

Elisabeth, Princess Palatine: letters to René Descarates / Andrea Nye

Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La frontera and René Descartes's Discourse on method: moving beyond the canon in discussion of philosophical ideas / Lisa A. Bergin

Mary Astell: a pre-humean Christian empiricist and feminist / Jane Duran

Harriet Taylor Mill's collaboration with John Stuart Mill / Jo Ellen Jacobs

Poems from Fifty forms for fifty philosophies / Veda A. Cobb-Stevens

Philosophical friendship, 1996: a postscript / Cecile T. Tougas

Christine de Pizan and Jehanne dÁrc: above all the heroes past / Tracy Adams

Madame de Sablé's moral philosophy: a Jansenist salon / John J. Conley

A woman-centered philosophy: an alternative to enlightenment thought (1700-1750) / Ann Willeford

Madame de Condorcet's letters on sympathy / Karin Brown

Iris Murdoch: love and The bell / Patricia J. O'Connor

Why I have worked on this book for several years / Cecile T. Tougas.