Voices Unbound: The Lives and Works of Twelve Women Intellectuals (The Worlds of Women Series) Book

Socrates. Virgil. Sir Francis Bacon. The philosophers of Ancient Greece, the poets of Ancient Rome, and the essayists of late English Renaissance were men acknowledged as the great thinkers of their day. Later, men like Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Paine, and scores of others joined the prestigious circle of intellectual elites. Conspicuously absent are the names of female "great thinkers" in intellectual studies?despite the skyrocketing interest in the American intellectual and the contribution by women to America?s social and intellectual development. So, then, what does it mean to be an American woman intellectual in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries? How were/are women able to surmount the restrictive roles dictated by their respective societies? How have time and history silenced the contributions made by some women to the development of intellectual history? This book addresses these questions. A collection of biographies and writings from the nineteenth century through the present, Voices Unbound speaks to the blatant omission of women from intellectual studies and also begins the work of developing a women?s intellectual tradition. Lydia Maria Child, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Margaret Mead, Susan Sontag, bell hooks?Voices Unbound recovers these and other notable yet neglected names from America?s rich past and reintroduces these remarkable women and their writings to the American public. Thorough and insightful, Voices Unbound is an important book for all those interested in American intellectual history and women?s history.Read More