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Broad, Jacqueline. Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century. 

_____.Mary Astell: The Christian Religion, as Professed by a Daughter of the Church of England. 

_____."Women on Liberty in Early Modern England," Philosophy Compass 9, no. 2 (2014): 112-22.

_____."Impressions in the Brain: Malebranche on Women, Women on Malebranche," Intellectual History Review 22, no. 3 (2012), 373-389.

Broad, Jacqueline and Green, Karen.  A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1400-1700. 

Conley, John. Jacqueline Pascal: A Rule for Children and Other Writings.

____. Adoration and Annihilation: The Convent Philosophy of Port-Royal.

____. The Suspicion of Virtue: Women Philosophers in Neoclassical France.

Digby, Tom. Men Doing Feminism.

Duran, Jane. Philosophies of Science/Feminist Theories.

____. Women in Political Theory.

____. Women, Philosophy and Literature.

____. Worlds of Knowing: Global Feminist Epistemologies.

____.  Eight Women Philosophers: Theory, Politics and Feminism.

Dykeman, Therese and Rogers, Dorothy: The Social, Political and Philosophical Works of Catharine Beecher.  Volume 1: Moral & Religious Works 1.

____.  The Social, Political and Philosophical Works of Catharine Beecher        Volume 2: Moral and Religious Works II.

____.  The Social, Political and Philosophical Works of Catharine Beecher, Volume 3: Moral and Religious Works III.

____.  The Social, Political and Philosohical Works of Catharine Beecher, Volume 4: The Role and Rights of Women I.

____. The Social, Political and Philosophical Works of Catharine Beecher, Volume 5: The Role and Rights of Women II.

____. The Social, Political and Philosophical Works of Catharine Beecher, Volume 6: The Role and Rights of Women III.

____.  Contributions by Women to Nineteenth-Century Philosophy

Dykeman, Therese Boos. The Neglected  Canon: Nine Women Philosophers – First to the Twentieth Century.

Gardner, Catherine Villanueva. Empowerment and Interconnectivity: Toward a Feminist History of Utilitarian Philosophy.

____.  Historical Dictionary of Feminist Philosophy.

____.  Women Philosophers: Genre and the Boundaries of Philosophy.

Hagengruber, Ruth. Emilie du Chatelet between Leibniz and Newton.

McAlister, Linda Lopez. Hypatia’s Daughters: Fifteen Hundred Years of Women Philosophers.

Minnich, Elizabeth. Transforming Knowledge.

_____.  “The Life of The Mind, The Life of Action: Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) & Hannah Arendt (1906-1975),” in An Unconventional History of Western Philosophy: Conversations Between Men and Women Philosophers, ed. Karen J. Warren.

_____.  “Philosophy, Education, and the American Tradition of Aspirational Democracy,” in Feminist Interpretations of John Dewey, ed. Charlene Haddock Seigfried; in series, “Re-Reading The Canon,” Nancy Tuana, General Editor. 

_____.  “Back to Basics” (from Transforming Knowledge) in Feminist Theory: A Reader, Frances Bartkowski, Wendy Kolmar, eds. 

_____.  "Judging in Freedom: Hannah Arendt on The Relation of Thinking and Judgment," in Hannah Arendt: Thinking, Judging, Freedom, eds. Kaplan & Kessler. 

_____.  "Hannah Arendt: Thinking As We are," in Between Women, ed. Ascher, DeSalvo, Ruddick. 

Rogers, Dorothy G. America’s First Women Philosophers: Transplanting Hegel 1860-1925.

Seigfried, Charlene Haddock.  Feminist Interpretations of John Dewey.

____.  Jane Addams: Democracy and Social Ethics.

____.  Jane Addams: The Long Road of Woman’s Memory.

____.  Pragmatism and Feminism.

Sheridan, Patricia: Catharine Trotter Cockburn: Philosophical Writings.

Tougas, Cecile and Ebenreck, Sarah: Presenting Women Philosophers.

Waithe, Mary Ellen, Vintro, M, and Zorita C. Oliva Sabuco de Nantes Barrera: New Philosophy of Human Nature.

Waithe, Mary Ellen. "Heloise and Abelard"  in An Unconventional History of Western Philosophy: Conversations Between Men and Women Philosophers, ed. Karen J. Warren.

_____. A History of Women Philosophers, Volume 1. 600 BC – 500 AD.

____.  A History of Women Philosophers, Volume 2: Medieval and Renaissance Women Philosophers, 500 – 1600.

____.  A History of Women Philosophers, Volume 3. Early Modern Women Philosophers 1600-1900.

____. A History of Women Philosophers, Volume 4: Contemporary Women Philosophers 1900 – today.

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