In a tour de force of intellectual history, Siep Stuurman rediscovers the remarkable early Enlightenment figure Francois Poulain de la Barre. A dropout from theology studies at the Sorbonne, Poulain e
For much of history, strangers were routinely classified as barbarians and inferiors, seldom as fellow human beings. The notion of a common humanity was counterintuitive and thus had to be invented. S
If one defines feminist discourse as consisting of criticism of misogyny and male supremacy, the conviction that the condition of women is not immutable and can be changed for the better, and a sense
Spanning six centuries of political thought in European history, this book puts the ideas of thinkers from Christine de Pizan to Simone de Beauvoir in the broader contexts of their time. This intrigui
