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Mary Astell: Including Women's Voices in Political Theory
- Hypatia
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 19, Number 3, Summer 2004
- pp. 63-84
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Writing in the seventeenth century, Mary Astell offers some splendid models of what it can mean to include women in determining the purposes of politics, in marking the boundaries of issues on the political agenda, and in analyzing particular political concepts. A contending voice in early modern philosophy, Astell's contributions to political thought are made more visible here by contrast with Thomas Hobbes, with whom she was familiar and somewhat sympathetic.