Works by Poulain

• 1672, Les rapports de la langue Latin avec la Françoise pour traduire élégamment et sans peine, Paris: C. Thibout.
• 1673, De l’égalité des deux sexes: Discours physique et moral où l’on voit l’importance de se défaire des préjugés, Paris: Jean du Puis. (Scholar)
• 1674, De l’éducation des dames pour la conduite de l’esprit, dans les sciences et dans les moeurs: Entretiens, Paris: Jean du Puis, [date on title page 1671].
• 1675, De l’excellence des hommes, contre l’égalité des sexes, Paris: Jean du Puis.
• 1681, Essai des remarques particulières sur la langue françoise pour la ville de Genève, Geneva.
• 1720, La Doctrine des protestans sur la liberté et le droit de lire l’Ecriture Sainte, sur le service Divin en Langue entendue, sur l’invocation des Saints, sur le Sacrament de l’Eucharistie. Justifiés par le Missel Romain & par les Réflexions sur chaque Point, avec Un commentaire philosophique sur ces paroles de Jésus-Christ, Ceci est mon Corps; Ceci est mon Sang, Matth. Chap. XXVI, v. 26, Geneva: Fabri & Barrillot. (Scholar)
• 1677, The Woman as Good as the Man: Or, The Equality of Both Sexes, trans. A. L., London: N. Brooks.
• [TTen], Three Cartesian Feminist Treatises, introduction by Marcelle Maistre Welch, translated by Vivien Bosley, Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Translations of On the equality of the two sexes (1673), On the education of ladies (1674), and On the excellence of men (1675). (Scholar)
• [TTfr], De l’égalité des deux sexes, De l’éducation des dames, De l’excellence des hommes, Marie-Frédérique Pellegrin (ed.), Paris: Vrin, 2011. (Scholar)
• [T1en], A Physical and Moral Discourse Concerning the Equality of Both Sexes, translation of Poulain 1673 in C-trans: 119–200, 2013.

Other Sources

• Agrippa von Nettesheim, Henricus Cornelius, 1509/1529, De nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus, R. Antonioli (ed.), Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1990. Translated as Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex, Albert Rabil, Jr. (trans. and ed.), Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1996. (Scholar)
• Aristotle, The Complete works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation, 2 Volumes, ed. Jonathan Barnes, Princeton University Press, 1984.
• Augustine, Saint, De doctrina Christiana. Translated as On Christian teaching, R. P. H. Green (trans.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
• –––, De Trinitate. Translated in On the Trinity, books 8–15, Stephen McKenna (trans.), Gareth B. Matthews (ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
• –––, De civitate Dei. Translated in The City of God, books 17–22, Gerald G. Walsh and Daniel J. Honan (trans.), H. Dressler et.al. (ed.), (The Fathers of the Church, 24), Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1954; paperback reprint 2008.
• Beauvoir, Simone de, 1949/1989 [2011], Le deuxième sexe, vol. I, Paris: Gallimard, page numbers are from the 1989 edition. Translated as The Second Sex, Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier (trans.), New York: Vintage Books, 2011. (Scholar)
• Christine de Pizan, 1405 [1999], The Book of the City of Ladies, Rosalind Brown-Grant (trans.), London: Penguin Books. (Scholar)
• Clarke, Desmond M. (trans.), [C-trans], The Equality of the Sexes: Three Feminist Texts of the Seventeenth Century, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
• Descartes, René, [CSM], The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, 2 vols., trans. J. Cottingham, R. Stoothoff, and D. Murdoch, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Cited as CSM followed by volume number. (Scholar)
• –––, [AT], Œuvres de Descartes, 11 vols., eds. C. Adam and P. Tannery, revised edition, Paris: Vrin, 1996. Cited as AT followed by volume number. (Scholar)
• Dupin, Louise Marie-Madelaine, ca. 1745, Ouvrage sur les femmes, major manuscripts drafts held by archives in Austin, Texas; Geneva, Switzerland; Montmorency, France. (Scholar)
• Forge, Louis de la, 1666, Traitté de l’Esprit de l’Homme, de ses facultez et fonctions, et de son union avec le corps. Suivant les Principes de René Descartes, Paris: Theodore Girard. (Scholar)
• Gouges, Olympe de, 1791 [2011], Les droits de la femme. A La Reine. Translated as The Rights of Woman. To the Queen, in Between the Queen and the Cabby: Olympe de Gouges’s Rights of Woman, John H. Cole, Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, pp. 28–41. (Scholar)
• –––, 1993, Écrits politiques, vol. 1, Olivier Blanc (ed.), Paris: Côté-femmes.
• Gournay, Marie le Jars de, [G-OC], Œuvres complètes, 2 vols., J.-C. Arnould, E. Berriot, C. Blum, A. L. Franchetti, M.-C. Thomine, and V. Worth-Stylianou (eds), Paris: Honoré Champion, 2002. Cited as G-OC. (Scholar)
• –––, [G-EMW] 1622, Égalité des hommes et des femmes. Translated as The Equality of Men and Women, in C-trans: 54–73. Cited as G-EMW.
• Hobbes, Thomas, 1651 [1998], Leviathan, or the Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiastical and Civil, London. Reprinted J. C. A. Gaskin (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. (Scholar)
• Malebranche, Nicolas, 1674–75 [1997], Recherche de la vérité, two volumes, Paris. Translated as The Search after Truth, Thomas M. Lennon and Paul J. Olscamp (trans./eds), (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. (Scholar)
• Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1762 [1979], Émile, ou De l’éducation. Translated as Emile, or On Education, A. Bloom (trans. and ed.), New York: Basic Books. (Scholar)
• –––, 2012, Œuvres complètes: Édition thématique tricentenaire, vol. 8, eds. R. Trousson, F. S. Eigeldinger, et.al., Geneva and Paris: Slatkine and Champion.
• Shapiro, Lisa (trans./ed.), 2007, The Correspondence between Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia and René Descartes, Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
• Sophia, 1739, Woman Not Inferior to Man: or, A short and modest Vindication of the natural Right of the FAIR-SEX to a perfect Equality of Power, Dignity, and Esteem, with the Men, London: John Hawkins, at the Falcon in St. Paul’s Church-Yard. Available at http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/sophia/woman/woman.html (Scholar)
• Suchon, Gabrielle [G. S. Aristophile], 1693, Traité de la Morale et de la Politique, divisée en trois parties, sçavoir la liberté, la science, et l’autorité où l’on voit que les personnes du sexe pour en être privées, ne laissent pas d’avoir une capacité naturelle, qui les en peut rendre participantes, Lyon: B. Vignieu. (Scholar)
• Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, London: Joseph Johnson. Reprinted in Wollstonecraft [VR]. (Scholar)
• –––, [VR], Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men with A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Sylvana Tomaselli (ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511841231

Secondary literature

• Alcover, Madeleine, 1981, Poullain de la Barre: Une aventure philosophique, Paris, Seattle & Tübingen: Biblio 17/Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature. (Scholar)
• Antony, Louise M. and Charlotte E. Witt (eds.), 1993, A Mind of One’s Own: Feminist Essays on Reason and Objectivity, Boulder, San Francisco & Oxford: Westview Press. (Scholar)
• Atherton, Margaret, 1993, “Cartesian Reason and Gendered Reason”, in Antony and Witt 1993: 19–34. (Scholar)
• Bergès, Sandrine, 2016, “A Republican Housewife: Marie-Jeanne Phlipon Roland on Women’s Political Role”, Hypatia, 31(1): 107–122. doi:10.1111/hypa.12215 (Scholar)
• Broad, Jacqueline, 2002, Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511487125 (Scholar)
• –––, 2017, “Early Modern Feminism and Cartesian Philosophy”, in The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy, Ann Garry, Serene J. Khader, and Alison Stone (eds.), London & New York: Routledge, pp. 71–81. (Scholar)
• –––, 2019, “The Early Modern Period: Dignity and the Foundations of Women’s Rights”, in The Wollstonecraftian Mind, Sandrine Bergès, Eileen Hunt Botting, and Alan Coffee (eds.), London & New York: Routledge, pp. 25–35. (Scholar)
• Broad, Jacqueline and Karen Detlefsen (eds.), 2017, Women and Liberty, 1600–1800: Philosophical Essays, Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198810261.001.0001 (Scholar)
• Clarke, Desmond M., 2013, “Introduction”, in C-trans: 1–53. (Scholar)
• Deslauriers, Marguerite, 2018, “Gournay, Marie le Jars de (1565–1645)”, in Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Abingdon, UK: Taylor & Francis. (Scholar)
• –––, 2019, “Marie de Gournay and Aristotle on the Unity of the Sexes”, in Feminist History of Philosophy: The Recovery and Evaluation of Women’s Philosophical Thought, Eileen O’Neill and Marcy P. Lascano (eds.), Cham: Springer International Publishing, 281–299. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-18118-5_13 (Scholar)
• Detlefsen, Karen, 2017, “Cartesianism and Its Feminist Promise and Limits”, in Descartes and Cartesianism: Essays in Honour of Desmond Clarke, Stephen Gaukroger and Catherine Wilson (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 191–206. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198779643.003.0012 (Scholar)
• Drieux, Philippe, 2019, “Louis de La Forge on Mind, Causality, and Union”, in Nadler, Schmaltz, and Antoine-Mahut 2019: 318–331. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198796909.013.19 (Scholar)
• Fraisse, Geneviève, 1985, “Poulain de la Barre, ou le procès des préjugés”, Corpus: revue de philosophie 1: 27–41. (Scholar)
• Grappin, Henri, 1913, “Notes Sur Un Féministe Oublié: Le Cartésien Poullain de La Barre”, Revue d’Histoire Littéraire de La France, 20(4): 852–867. (Scholar)
• –––, 1914, “A Propos Du Féministe Poullain de La Barre”, Revue d’Histoire Littéraire de La France, 21(2): 387–389. (Scholar)
• Harth, Erica, 1992, Cartesian Women: Versions and Subversions of Rational Discourse in the Old Regime, Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
• Haslanger, Sally, 1993, “On Being Objective and Being Objectified”, in Antony and Witt 1993: 85–125. (Scholar)
• Heinämaa, Sara, 2005, “The Soul-Body Union and Sexual Difference from Descartes to Merleau-Ponty and Beauvoir”, in Feminist Reflections on the History of Philosophy, Lilli Alanen and Charlotte Witt (eds.), (New Synthese Historical Library 55), Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 137–151. doi:10.1007/1-4020-2489-4_8 (Scholar)
• Hoekstra, Kinch, 2013, “Hobbesian Equality”, in Hobbes Today: Insights for the 21st Century, S. A. Lloyd (ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 76–112. doi:10.1017/cbo9781139047388.007 (Scholar)
• Hoffmann, Paul, 1969, “Féminisme cartésien”, Travaux de linguistique et de littérature, 7(2): 83–105.
• Langton, Rae, 2000, “Feminism in Epistemology: Exclusion and Objectification”, in The Cambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy, Miranda Fricker and Jennifer Hornsby (eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 127–145. doi:10.1017/ccol0521624517.008 (Scholar)
• Leduc, Guyenne, 2010, Réécritures anglaises au XVIIIe siècle de l’Égalité des deux Sexes (1673) de François Poulain de la Barre, Paris: Harmattan. (Scholar)
• Lefevre, G., 1914, “Poulain de la Barre et le féminisme au xviie siècle”, Revue Pédagogique, 64: 101–113. (Scholar)
• Nadler, Steven M., Tad M. Schmaltz, and Delphine Kolesnik-Antoine (eds.), 2019, The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism, (Oxford Handbooks), Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198796909.001.0001 (Scholar)
• O’Neill, Eileen, 1999, “Women Cartesians, ’Feminine Philosophy,’ and Historical Exclusion”, in Susan Bordo (ed.), Feminist Interpretations of René Descartes, University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, pp. 232–257. (Scholar)
• –––, 2011, “The Equality of Men and Women”, in Desmond M. Clarke and Catherine Wilson (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Early Modern Europe, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 445–474. (Scholar)
• Pal, Carol, 2012, Republic of Women: Rethinking the Republic of Letters in the Seventeenth Century, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9781139087490 (Scholar)
• Pellegrin, Marie-Frédérique, 2011, “Poulain de la Barre: Un féminisme philosophique”, in F. Poulain de la Barre, De l’égalité des deux sexes, De l’éducation des dames, De l’excellence des hommes, Paris: Vrin, pp. 11–48. (Scholar)
• –––, 2013, “La science parfaite: Savants et savantes chez Poulain de la Barre”, Revue philosophique de la France et de l’étranger, 138(3): 377–392. doi:10.3917/rphi.133.0377 (Scholar)
• –––, 2019, “Cartesianism and Feminism”, in Nadler, Schmaltz, and Antoine-Mahut 2019: 564–579. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198796909.013.35 (Scholar)
• Perry, Ruth, 1985, “Radical Doubt and the Liberation of Women”, Eighteenth-Century Studies, 18(4): 472–493. doi:10.2307/2739005 (Scholar)
• Reuter, Martina, 2013, “Freedom of the Will as a Basis of Equality: Descartes, Princess Elisabeth and Poullain de La Barre”, in Freedom and the Construction of Europe, volume 2, Quentin Skinner and Martin van Gelderen (eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 65–83. doi:10.1017/cbo9781139519298.006 (Scholar)
• –––, 2014, “‘Like a Fanciful Kind of Half Being’: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Criticism of Jean-Jacques Rousseau”, Hypatia, 29(4): 925–941. doi:10.1111/hypa.12105 (Scholar)
• –––, 2017, “François Poulain de la Barre on the Subjugation of Women”, in Broad and Detlefsen 2017: 33–49. (Scholar)
• –––, 2019, “The Gender of the Cartesian Mind, Body, and Mind-Body Union”, in Reuter and Svensson 2019: 37–58. (Scholar)
• Reuter, Martina and Frans Svensson (eds.), 2019, Mind, Body, and Morality: New Perspectives on Descartes and Spinoza, (Routledge studies in seventeenth-century philosophy), New York: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781351202831. (Scholar)
• Saul, Jennifer, 2013, “Implicit Bias, Stereotype Threat, and Women in Philosophy”, in Women in Philosophy: What Needs to Change?, Katrina Hutchison and Fiona Jenkins (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 39–60. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199325603.003.0003 (Scholar)
• Schmitter, Amy M., 2018, “Cartesian prejudice: Gender, education and authority in Poulain de la Barre”, Philosophy Compass 13(12): 1–12. (Scholar)
• Shapiro, Lisa, 2017, “Gabrielle Suchon’s ‘Neutralist’: The Status of Women and the Invention of Autonomy”, in Broad and Detlefsen 2017: 50–65. (Scholar)
• Stock, Marie-Louise, 1961, “Poullain de la Barre: A Seventeenth-Century Feminist”, Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University. (Scholar)
• Stuurman, Siep, 2004, François Poulain de la Barre and the Invention of Modern Equality, Cambridge, MA & London: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Svensson, Frans, 2019, “A Cartesian Distinction in Virtue: Moral and Perfect”, in Reuter and Svensson 2019: 208–225. (Scholar)
• Thielemann, Leland, 1983, “The Thousand Lights and Intertextual Rhapsody: Diderot or Mme Dupin?”, Romantic Review, 74(3): 316–329. (Scholar)
• Welch, Marcelle Maistre, 2002a, “Introduction: Poullain de la Barre’s Cartesian Feminism”, in TTen 3–33. (Scholar)
• –––, 2002b, “Introduction: On the Education of Ladies”, in TTen 125–137. (Scholar)
• Wilkin, Rebecca, 2019, “Feminism and Natural Right in François Poulain de La Barre and Gabrielle Suchon”, Journal of the History of Ideas, 80(2): 227–248. doi:10.1353/jhi.2019.0013 (Scholar)