Voices Unbound: The Lives and Works of Twelve Women Intellectuals (The Worlds of Women Series)
Description
Socrates. Virgil. Sir Francis Bacon. The philosophers of Ancient Greece, the poets of Ancient Rome, and the essayists of late English Renaissance were men acknowledged as the great thinkers of their day. Later, men like Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Paine, and scores of others joined the prestigious circle of intellectual elites. While over time, the concept of the great thinker has evolved and redefined itself, it has not evolved to formally include women in its exclusive circle of members. Conspicuously absent are the names of female 'great thinkers' in intellectual studies_despite the...
ISBN(s)
0842028153, 9780842028158
