CONTENTS
Series Introduction: Elizabeth K. Minnich
Introduction: Sara Ebenreck and Cecile T. Tougas
Part I. The Loss and the Recovery of Women's Voices: Introduced by Sara Ebenreck
1. Why Have There Been So Few Women Philosophers? -- Gerda Lerner
2. Introduction to A Voice from the South -- Mary Helen Washington
Part II.Naming Reality -- Differently: Introduced by Sara Ebenreck
1. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179): A New Medieval Philosopher? -- Helen J. John, S.N.D.
2. Ednah Dow Cheney's (182401904) American Aesthetics -- Therese B. Dykeman
3. Jane Addams's (1860-1935) Feminist Ethics -- Marilyn Fischer
4. Moral Wisdom in the Black Women's Literary Tradition -- Katie Geneva Cannon
5. Susanne K. Langer's (1895-1985) Conception of "Symbol": Making Connections Through Ambiguity
-- Beatrice K. Nelson
6. Hannah Arendt (1906-1975): On the Relation of Thinking and Morality -- Elizabeth K. Minnich
7. Hannah Arendt (1960-1975) and Susan Griffin (1943-): Storytelling -- Toward a Feminist Metahistory
--Shari Stone-Mediatore
8. Finding New Roots as a Woman Philosopher -- Sara Ebenreck
Part III. Philosophical Friendships: Introduced by Cecile T. Tougas
1. Heloise (1101-1164) and Abelard -- Mary Ellen Waithe
2. Elisabeth, Princess Palatine (1618-1680): Letters to Rene Descartes -- Andrea Nye
3. Gloria Ansaldua's (1942-) Borderlands / la Frontera and Rene Descartes's Discourse of Method:
Moving Beyond the Canon in Discussion of Philosophical Ideas -- Lisa A. Bergin
4. Mary Astell (1666-1731): A Pre-Humean Christian Empiricist and Feminist -- Jane Duran
5. Harriet Taylor Mill's (1807-1858) Collaboration with John Stuart Mill -- Jo-Ellen Jacobs
6. Philosophical Friendship, 1996: A Postscript -- Cecile T. Tougas
7. Poems from Fifty Forms for Fifty Philosophers -- Veda A. Cobb-Stevens
Part IV. Love, Feeling, and Community: Introduced by Cecile T. Tougas
1. Christine de Pizan (1364-1430) and Jehanne d'Arc: "Above All the Heroes Past" -- Tracy Adams
2. Madame de Sable's (1599-1678) Moral Philosophy: A Jansenist Salon -- John J. Conley
3. A Woman-Centered Philosophy: An Alternative to Enlightenment Thought (1700-1750) -- Ann
Willeford
4. Madame de Condorcet's (1764-1822) Letters on Sympathy -- Karin Brown
5. Iris Murdoch's (1919-1999) Concept of Love and The Bell -- Patricia J. O'Connor
6. Why I Have Worked on this Book for Several Years -- Cecile T. Tougas
Biographical Notes
