Women and Liberty, 1600–1800: Philosophical Essays Edited by Jacqueline Broad and Karen Detlefsen Table of Contents Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction 1 Jacqueline Broad and Karen Detlefsen Part I: Ethical and Political Liberty 1. Liberty and Feminism in Early Modern Women's Writing 29 Karen Detlefsen 2. François Poulain de la Barre on the Subjugation of Women 64 Martina Reuter 3. Gabrielle Suchon's 'Neutralist': The Status of Women and the Invention of Autonomy 99 Lisa Shapiro 4. Marriage, Slavery, and the Merger of Wills: Responses to Sprint, 1700–01 133 Jacqueline Broad 5. Locke, Enlightenment, and Liberty in the Works of Catharine Macaulay and her Contemporaries 170 Karen Green 6. Mary Wollstonecraft and Freedom as Independence 199 Lena Halldenius 7. Sophie de Grouchy, The Tradition(s) of Two Liberties, and the Missing Mother(s) of Liberalism 230 Eric Schliesser 8. Liberty of Mind: Women Philosophers and the Freedom to Philosophize 262 Sarah Hutton Part II: Metaphysical and Religious Liberty 9. Freedom and Necessity in the Work of Margaret Cavendish 294 Deborah Boyle 10. Anne Conway on Liberty 343 Marcy P. Lascano 11. Mary Astell on Liberty 375 Alice Sowaal 12. If I were King! Morals and Physics in Emilie Du Châtelet's Subtle Thoughts on Liberty 411 Ruth Hagengruber 13. Creation, Divine Freedom, and Catharine Cockburn: An Intellectualist on Possible Worlds and Contingent Laws 434 Emily Thomas Biographical Appendix 467 Bibliography 478 Index