A Women's Republic of Letters: Anna Maria van Schurman, Marie de Gournay, and Female Self-Representation in Relation to the Public Sphere

Larsen, Anne R.

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“…9 O Grande Século foi marcado por inúmeras outras presenças importantes, em vários países da Europa, em defesa dos direitos das mulheres. Marie de Gournay, por exemplo, correspondeu-se com Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678), calvinista, primeira estudante universitária na Europa (Universidade de Utrecht, na Holanda), formada em direito, com domínio do latim (aprendido com o pai), grego, hebraico e várias outras línguas, correspondente e admiradora de Gournay, defensora do acesso da mulher à educação superior, que se notabilizou por sua tese escrita em latim -Dissertatio de ingenii muliebris ad doctrinam et meliores litteras aptitudine, traduzida para várias línguas, como para o inglês, em 1659, sob o título de The learned maid (A jovem instruída) (Larsen, 2008).…”

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Querela das Mulheres, Igualdade e Direito à Educação: França, 1399 a 1793

Ferraro

2021

Educ. Real.

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Resumo: Este artigo trata da relação da querela das mulheres com a igualdade entre os sexos no que se refere ao direito à educação, definindo-se como campo de investigação a França, nos quase quatro séculos que vão de 1399 à Revolução Francesa, com distinção de três períodos de criação cumulativa: o de Christine de Pizan, a primeira mulher a viver da sua pena e a sustentar com ela a sua família; o de Marie de Gournay e Poulain de la Barre, que elevaram o termo igualdade a conceito e princípio; e o do marquês de Condorcet e Olympe de Gouges, que enriqueceram o conceito de igualdade com o de universalidade, estendendo a todos os seres humanos (Condorcet) e aos negros (Condorcet e Gouges) todos os direitos reivindicados para as mulheres.

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Querela das Mulheres, Igualdade e Direito à Educação: França, 1399 a 1793

Ferraro

2021

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How Female Intellectuals Stopped Being Philosophers: On Anna Maria van Schurman in the Catalogues of Learned Women

Wandall

2024

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This article examines the figure of the female intellectual exemplified in Anna Maria van Schurman, as she is portrayed in the catalogues of learned women. The aim is to demonstrate the dramatic and unexpected changes that this persona undergoes during the eighteenth century. The article challenges the common misconception that gender roles progress throughout history towards an ideal of freedom and equality. Instead, I argue that we see a regression in the eighteenth century where the ideal of female intellectuality transforms from focusing on gender-neutral virtues such as academic skill and learnedness to emphasizing traditionally feminine traits like modesty, piety, and domesticity. The first part of the article introduces the genre of catalogues of learned women, focusing on the German context. The main part presents an in-depth analysis of the biographical entries on van Schurman, juxtaposing the early eighteenth-century portrayals with entries from the turn of the nineteenth century. The purpose of this analysis is to illustrate the radical discursive changes concerning women intellectuals by using van Schurman as case study. Finally, the last part of the article will be dedicated to a discussion of historical conceptualizations of womanhood, exploring why the gender narrative changed in the early modern period.

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On the Outskirts of the Canon: The Myth of the Lone Female Philosopher, and What to Do about It

Bergès

2015

Metaphilosophy

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Women philosophers of the past, because they tended not to engage with each other much, are often perceived as isolated from ongoing philosophical dialogues. This has led-directly and indirectly-to their exclusion from courses in the history of philosophy. This article explores three ways in which we could solve this problem. The first is to create a course in early modern philosophy that focuses solely or mostly on female philosophers, using conceptual and thematic ties such as a concern for education and a focus on ethics and politics. The second is to introduce women authors as dialoguing with the usual canonical suspects: Cavendish with Hobbes, Elisabeth of Bohemia with Descartes, Masham and Astell with Locke, Conway with Leibniz, and so on. The article argues that both methods have significant shortcomings, and it suggests a third, consisting in widening the traditional approach to structuring courses in early modern philosophy.

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A Women's Republic of Letters: Anna Maria van Schurman, Marie de Gournay, and Female Self-Representation in Relation to the Public Sphere

Cited by 19 publications

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Querela das Mulheres, Igualdade e Direito à Educação: França, 1399 a 1793

Querela das Mulheres, Igualdade e Direito à Educação: França, 1399 a 1793

How Female Intellectuals Stopped Being Philosophers: On Anna Maria van Schurman in the Catalogues of Learned Women

On the Outskirts of the Canon: The Myth of the Lone Female Philosopher, and What to Do about It

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