Women and republicanism / edited by Sandrine Bergès and Alan Coffee.

Other author Berges, Sandrine, editor.
Other author Coffee, Alan, editor.
Format Book
PublicationNew York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2026.
Descriptionx, 253 pages ; 24 cm.
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SeriesOxford new histories of philosophy
Oxford new histories of philosophy.
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- 1 Recognizing Women's Contribution to the History of Republican Theorizing -- 1.1. What Is Republicanism? -- 1.2. A Broader Conversation -- 1.3. Feminist Republicanism? -- 1.4. Summary of the Chapters -- References -- 2 The Destructive Effects of Inequality: Mary Wollstonecraft and Strong Republican Egalitarianism -- 2.1. Wollstonecraft and the Scythe of Equality -- 2.2. Intrinsic Egalitarianism and the Myth of Meritocracy
Contents 2.3. Towards Non-Intrinsic Republican Egalitarianism -- 2.4. Thresholdism and Why Republicans Should Avoid It -- References -- 3 Between Domesticity and Publicity: The Revolutionary Republicanism of Louise de Keralio -- 3.1. The Republicanism of Louise de Keralio -- 3.2. A Republican Society -- 3.3. Women in the Republic -- References -- 4 Republican Echoes and Women's Freedom in Italy: From Rosa Califronia's Breve difesa dei diritti delle donne to the Jacobin Triennium -- 4.1. Introduction: Republican Echoes and Reverberations
Contents 4.2. From Roman Drawing Rooms to a Print Shop in Assisi: Breve difesa dei diritti delle donne (1794) -- 4.3. The Veneto Area: La causa delle donne (1797) -- 4.4. Between Mantua and Milan: La schiavitù delle donne (1797) -- 4.5. The Ligurian Republic and Il Difensore della Libertà (1797) -- 4.6. The Constitutional Circle of Bologna (1798) -- 4.7. Conclusion: Women's Freedom in Late Eighteenth-Century Italy -- References -- 5 The Republicanism of "The Mother of Liberalism": How Germaine de Staël's Love of Liberty Guided Her Ideas About the Constitution -- 5.1. Introduction
Contents 5.2. Underneath the "-isms" -- 5.3. Anticipating the Esprit du Temps -- 5.4. Pure Theory of Republicanism -- 5.5. Representation of the Nation -- 5.6. Independence from Arbitrary Rule -- 5.7. The Ideal of Free Governments -- 5.8. Securing Individual Liberties -- 5.9. Liberty as Independence -- 5.10. Love of Liberty as an Epistemic Emotion -- 5.11. Friends of Liberty -- References -- 6 From Utopian Republicanism Towards Scientific Socialism -- 6.1. Utopian Republicanism -- 6.2. Political Economy -- 6.3. Some Tentative Conclusions -- References
Contents 7 Republicanism in the Mirror: The Case for Equality After Colonization -- 7.1. The Atlantic Enlightenment: Cross-Cultural Encounters and the Problem of Equality at Large -- 7.2. Freedom as Non-Domination of Land -- 7.3. Freedom as Non-Domination of Culture -- 7.4. Freedom as Non-Domination of the Person -- References -- 8 Sympathy in Struggle Against Servitude: Maria Stewart's Black Civic Republicanism -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Racial Domination -- 8.3. Stewart: Racial Domination as Servitude -- 8.4. Civic Virtue and Sympathy -- 8.4.1. Civic Virtue
Summary The history of republican philosophy has long been regarded as an exclusively male endeavour. In recent years, scholars have highlighted and restored the undeniable republican contributions of a select group of women. Berg?es and Coffee here collect ten essays that examine the important philosophical contributions made by women to the history of republican political thought. The contributors reveal the depth and richness of women's political thought within the republican paradigm. They highlight the history of women's exclusion in republican discourse, not only as citizens and thinkers but even within the masculine-coded language and ideas embedded in its key terms, such as virtue, that have been transmitted across generations.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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