Jacqueline Broad

Petticoat Power? Mary Astell's Appropriation of Heroic Virtue for Women

Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Date: 22-06-2022

DOI: 10.1017/APA.2022.6

Abstract: Several recent studies devote themselves to Mary Astell's feminist theory of virtue—her ‘serious proposal to the ladies’ to help women obtain wisdom, equality, and happiness, despite the prejudices of seventeenth-century custom. But there has been little scholarship on Astell's conception of heroic virtues , those exceptional character traits that raise their bearers above the ordinary course of nature. Astell's appropriation of heroic virtue poses a number of philosophical difficulties for her feminist ethics—heroic virtues are characteristically masculine, exceptional, and in idualistic, ill-suited to a community-oriented feminism aimed at ordinary women. In this paper, we seek to investigate—and then dispel—these key difficulties. Our intention is to generate a new understanding of Astell's theory of virtue as a unique and sophisticated theory that equalizes and naturalizes heroic virtue for women.

Oral Health: A Review through Eyes of Sri Lanka

Publisher: International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications (IJSRP)

Date: 28-04-2021

DOI: 10.29322/IJSRP.11.04.2021.P11268

A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1400–1700

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Date: 22-01-2009

DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511576089

Abstract: This ground-breaking book surveys the history of women's political thought in Europe from the late medieval period to the early modern era. The authors examine women's ideas about topics such as the basis of political authority, the best form of political organisation, justifications of obedience and resistance, and concepts of liberty, toleration, sociability, equality, and self-preservation. Women's ideas concerning relations between the sexes are discussed in tandem with their broader political outlooks and the authors demonstrate that the development of a distinctively sexual politics is reflected in women's critiques of marriage, the double standard, and women's exclusion from government. Women writers are also shown to be indebted to the ancient idea of political virtue, and to be acutely aware of being part of a long tradition of female political commentary. This work will be of tremendous interest to political philosophers, historians of ideas, and feminist scholars alike.

Women and Stoic ethics in early modern England

Publisher: Wiley

Date: 23-05-2023

DOI: 10.1111/PHC3.12933

School Dental Therapists’ Services in Sri Lanka: An overview

Publisher: International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications (IJSRP)

Date: 18-04-2021

DOI: 10.29322/IJSRP.11.06.2021.P11489

University Of Western Australia

Location: Australia

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Start Date: 01-2014

End Date: 12-2019

Amount: $190,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

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End Date: 09-2016

Amount: $541,000.00

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Start Date: 04-2019

End Date: 12-2024

Amount: $165,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

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Start Date: 01-2004

End Date: 12-2007

Amount: $257,466.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

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Start Date: 05-2022

End Date: 05-2025

Amount: $275,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

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Start Date: 10-2004

End Date: 10-2010

Amount: $1,600,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council