Bertrand Russell, Feminism, and Women Philosophers in his Circle
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Bertrand Russell, Feminism, and Women Philosophers in his Circle

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Bertrand Russell, Feminism, and Women Philosophers in his Circle

About this book

This book examines Bertrand Russell's complicated relationships to the women around him, and to feminism more generally. The essays in this volume offer scholarly reassessments of these relationships and their import for the history of feminism and of analytic philosophy.

Russell is a founder of analytic philosophy. He has also been called a feminist due to his public, decades-long advocacy for women's rights and equality of the sexes. But his private behavior towards wives and sexual partners, and his apparently dismissive (occasionally public) responses to some women philosophers, raises the question of what sort of feminist (or chauvinist) Russell actually was.

Focusing on women in Russell's circle of acquaintance, including feminist activists and his philosophical interlocutors, this book casts new light on a timeless thinker's feminism and the women who played critical roles in the making of analytic philosophy.

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Yes, you can access Bertrand Russell, Feminism, and Women Philosophers in his Circle by Landon D. C. Elkind,Alexander Mugar Klein in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Philosophy & History & Philosophy of Mathematics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9783031330254
eBook ISBN
9783031330261
Edition
0
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
History & Philosophy of Mathematics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Front Matter
  3. Editors’ Introduction
  4. A Moral and Intellectual Evaluation of Russell’s Romantic/Sexual Practices
  5. Bertrand and Dora Russell on Sex, Marriage and the Rule of Fathers
  6. Sex, Suffrage, and Marriage: Russell and Feminism
  7. Alice Ambrose and Women’s Work in the Foundations Debate at the University of Cambridge, 1932–1937
  8. Alice Ambrose and Margaret MacDonald: Two Women Who Challenged Bertrand Russell on Ordinary Language
  9. Susan Stebbing and Russell’s Logical Atomism
  10. Grandmothers and Founding Mothers of Analytic Philosophy: Constance Jones, Bertrand Russell, and Susan Stebbing on Complete and Incomplete Symbols
  11. Dorothy Wrinch and the Man of the Century
  12. “I like her very much—she has very good brains.”: Dorothy Wrinch’s Influence on Bertrand Russell
  13. Patricia Russell and Her Influence on Bertrand Russell
  14. Back Matter