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Alan Ryan, “Book Review: The Philosophy of Philandering,” The Independent, 3 October 1992.
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Ray Monk, Bertrand Russell: The Ghost of Madness, 1921–1970 (New York: Free Press, 2001), 138; also quoted at Bertrand Russell, How to Keep the Peace: The Pacifist Dilemma 1935–38, ed. Kenneth Blackwell, McMaster University ed., The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell (London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1983), 380.
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Louis Menand, “The Women Come and Go: The Love Song of T. S. Eliot,” The New Yorker, 30 September 2002.
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Brian Harrison, “Bertrand Russell: the False Consciousness of a Feminist,” Russell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies, Vol. 4, Iss. 1 (1984), pp. 157–205: 198.
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Katharine Tait, “Russell and Feminism,” Russell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies, Nos. 29–32 (1978): 16. Likely reflecting the complexity of Russell’s case, Tait added the following foreword to the 1996 printing of her 1975 autobiography (which itself briefly alluded to some aspects of Russell’s feminism discussed more fully in her 1978 article): "When I wrote this book I was closer to the events recorded and more severe in my judgments than I am now. Another twenty years of living has taught me that even the best intentions can be thwarted or destroyed by unhappiness and the highest ideals can inadvertently hurt those they are designed to protect. I could not now change what I have written without engaging in difficult editorial surgery, so I would simply like to add, by way of preface, that all my parents did the best they could, acting out of love, and I would no longer venture to criticize them." Katharine Tait, My Father Bertrand Russell, Foreword (Bristol: Thoemmes, 1996).
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Susan Hekman, “John Stuart Mill’s The Subjection of Women: The Foundations of Liberal Feminism,” History of European Ideas 15, no. 4–6 (1992); Keith Burgess-Jackson, “John Stuart Mill, Radical Feminist,” Social Theory and Practice 21, no. 3 (1995).
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Harrison, “Bertrand Russell: The False Consciousness of a Feminist,” 158–159.
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John Ongley, “The First American News Reports on Russell,” The Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly 121 (2004).
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Bertrand Russell, Contemplation and Action: 1902–14, ed. Richard A. Rempel, Andrew Brink, and Margaret Moran, McMaster University ed., The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell (London: Allen & Unwin, 1985), 267.
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Ongley, “The First American News Reports on Russell.”
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Bertrand Russell, Contemplation and Action, 1902–14, 267.
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Quoted at ibid.
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Harrison, “Bertrand Russell: The False Consciousness of a Feminist,” 194–195.
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Ibid., 194.
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A sample of Russell’s writing on this topic from the early twentieth century can be found in Part V of Russell, Contemplation and Action, 1902–14, 12.
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A reviewer for Palgrave Macmillan similarly noticed that Connell and Forbes draw distinct but complementary lessons from Marriage and Morals and from Russell’s biography more generally.
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See especially the pieces by Connell and Janssen-Lauret cited in Janssen-Lauret’s chapter in this volume.
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Harrison, “Bertrand Russell: The False Consciousness of a Feminist,” 196.
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Loc. cit.
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Elkind, L.D.C., Klein, A.M. (2024). Editors’ Introduction. In: Elkind, L.D.C., Klein, A.M. (eds) Bertrand Russell, Feminism, and Women Philosophers in his Circle. History of Analytic Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33026-1_1
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