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(Astell – Mary)

The following represent a selection of secondary sources on Astell.

Achinstein, Sharon. 2007. “Mary Astell, Religion, and Feminism: Texts in Motion.” In Mary Astell: Reason, Gender, Faith, edited by William Kolbrener and Michael Michelson, 17-30. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Ahearn, Kathleen A. 2009. “The Passions and Self-Esteem in Mary Astell’s Early Feminist Prose.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Denver.

Ahearn, Kathleen. 2016. “Mary Astell’s Account of Feminine Self-Esteem.” In Feminist Interpretations of Mary Astell, edited by Alice Sowaal and Penny A. Weiss. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press.

Alvarez, David P. 2011. "Reason and Religious Tolerance: Mary Astell's Critique of Shaftesbury." Eighteenth-Century Studies 44(4): 475-494.

Apetrei, Sarah L. T. 2008. "'Call No Man Master Upon Earth': Mary Astell's Tory Feminism and an Unknown Correspondence." Eighteenth-Century Studies 4(4): 507-523.

Apetrei, Sarah L. T. 2010. Women, feminism and religion in early Enlightenment England (Cambridge studies in early modern British history). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Berges, Sandrine. 2011. "Reason Nipped in the Bud: Freedom and Education in the Vindication of the Rights of Woman (in Turkish)." Felsefe Tartismalari (Philosophical Discussions): A Turkish Journal of Philosophy 46: 18-38.

Blank, Andreas. 2015. "Mary Astell on Flattery and Self-Esteem." The Monist 98(1): 53-63.

Boyle, Deborah. 2011. “Astell and Cartesian ‘Scientia'.” In The New Science and Women's Literary Discourse: Prefiguring Frankenstein, edited by Judy A. Hayden, 99-112. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Broad, Jacqueline. 2002. Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Broad, Jacqueline. 2003. "Adversaries or Allies? Occasional Thoughts on the Masham-Astell Exchange." Eighteenth-Century Thought 1: 123-149.

Broad, Jacqueline, and Karen Green 2009. “Mary Astell.” In A history of women's political thought in Europe, 1400-1700, 265-287. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Broad, Jacqueline. 2009. "Mary Astell on Virtuous Friendship." Parergon 26(2): 65-86.

Broad, Jacqueline. 2012. "Impressions in the Brain: Malebranche on Women, and Women on Malebranche." Intellectual History Review 22(3): 373-389.

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Broad, Jacqueline. 2014. "Women on Liberty in Early Modern England." Philosophy Compass 9(2): 112-122.

Broad, Jacqueline. 2015. The Philosophy of Mary Astell: An Early Modern Theory of Virtue. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Bryson, Cynthia B. 1998. "Mary Astell: Defender of the 'Disembodied Mind'." Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 13(4): 40-62.

Choi, Julie. 2010. "Born Free? Mary Astell's Reflections upon Marriage and Defoe's Roxana." British and American Fiction to 1900 17(2): 5.

Choi, Julie. 2011. "Women, Religion, and Enlightenment: Mary Astell's Serious Proposal to the Ladies." Feminist Studies in English Literature 19(1): 5.

Choi, Julie. 2014. "Mary Astell`s The Christian Religion: Life, Liberty and Happiness as Professed by a Daughter of the Church of England." Feminist Studies in English Literature 22(1): 5.

Clarke, Desmond M. 2013. The Equality of the Sexes: Three Feminist Texts of the Seventeenth Century. Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Deluna, D. N. 1993. "Mary Astell: England's First Feminist Literary Critic." Women's Studies 22(2): 231-242.

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Detlefsen, Karen. 2016. “Custom, Freedom, and Equality: Mary Astell on Marriage and Women’s Education.” In Feminist Interpretations of Mary Astell, edited by Alice Sowaal and Penny A. Weiss. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press.

Detlefsen, Karen. Forthcoming. “Cartesianism and its Feminist Promise and Limits: The Case of Mary Astell.” In Mind and Nature in Descartes and Cartesianism, edited by Catherine Wilson & Stephen Gaukroger. Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Deveraux, Johanna. 2008. "''Affecting the Shade': Attribution, Authorship, and Anonymity in An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 27(1): 17-37.

Deveraux, Johanna. 2009. "A Paradise Within? Mary Astell, Sarah Scott and the Limits of Utopia." Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 32(1): 53-67.

Duran, Jane. 2006. Eight Women Philosophers: Theory, Politics, and Feminism. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.

Duran, Jane. 2000. “Mary Astell: A Pre-Humean Christian Empiricist and Feminist.” Presenting Women Philosophers. Philadelphia, Temple University Press.

Duran, Jane. 2014. "Christianity and Women's Education: Anna Maria van Schurman and Mary Astell." Philosophy & Theology 26(1): 3.

Dussinger, John A. 2013. "Mary Astell's Revisions of Some Reflections upon Marriage (1730)." The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 107(1): 49-79.

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Ellenzweig, Sarah. 2003. "The Love of God and the Radical Enlightenment: Mary Astell's Brush with Spinoza." Journal of the History of Ideas 64(3): 379-397.

Glover, Susan Paterson. 2016. “Further Reflections upon Marriage: Mary Astell and Sarah Chapone.” In Feminist Interpretations of Mary Astell, edited by Alice Sowaal and Penny A. Weiss. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press.

Goldie, Mark. 2007. “Mary Astell and John Locke.” In Mary Astell: Reason, Gender, Faith, edited by William Kolbrener and Michael Michelson, 65-85. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.

Harol, Corrinne. 2007. “Mary Astell’s Law of the Heart.” In Mary Astell: Reason, Gender, Faith, edited by William Kolbrener and Michael Michelson, 87-98. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Harris, Jocelyn. 2012. "Philosophy and Sexual Politics in Mary Astell and Samuel Richardson." Intellectual History Review 22(3): 445-463.

Hartmann, Van C. 1998. "Tory Feminism in Mary Astell's 'Bart'lemy Fair'." The Journal of Narrative Technique 28(3): 243-265.

Johns, Alessa. 1996. "Mary Astell's 'Excited Needles': Theorizing Feminist Utopia in Seventeenth-Century England." Utopian Studies 7(1): 60-74.

Kinnaird, Joan K. 1979. "Mary Astell and the Conservative Contribution to English Feminism." The Journal of British Studies 19(1): 53-75.

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Kolbrener, William. 2003. "Gendering the Modern: Mary Astell's Feminist Historiography." The Eighteenth Century 44(1): 1-24.

Kolbrener, William. 2007. “Astell’s ‘Design of Friendship’ in Letters and A Serious Proposal, Part I.” In Mary Astell: Reason, Gender, Faith, edited by William Kolbrener and Michael Michelson, 49-64. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Kolbrener, William, and Michael Michelson. 2007. “’Dreading to Engage Her’: The Critical Reception of Mary Astell.” In Mary Astell: Reason, Gender, Faith, edited by William Kolbrener and Michael Michelson, 1-16. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Kolbrener, William, and Michael Michelson, eds. 2007. Mary Astell: Reason, Gender, Faith. Burlington, VT: Ashgate.

Kolbrener, William. 2014. “Slander, Conversation, and the Making of the Christian Public Sphere in Mary Astell's 'A serious proposal to the ladies' and 'The Christian religion as profess'd by a daugher of the Church of England'.” Religion and Women in Britain, c. 1660-1760, edited by Sarah Apetrei, 131-143. Burlington, VT: Ashgate.

Langton, Rae. 2000. “Feminism in Epistemology: Exclusion and Objectification.” In The Cambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy, edited by Miranda Fricker and Jennifer Hornsby, 127-145. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Lascano, Marcy. 2016. “Mary Astell on the Existence and Nature of God.” In Feminist Interpretations of Mary Astell, edited by Alice Sowaal and Penny A. Weiss. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press. 6

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Leduc, Guyonne. 2008. "Mary Astell. Theorist of Freedom from Domination." Études anglaises 61(4): 475.

Leduc, Guyonne. 2011. "Mary Astell et le féminisme en Angleterre au XVIIe siècle." Études anglaises 64(3): 376.

Lister, Andrew. 2004. "Marriage and Misogyny: The Place of Mary Astell in the History of Political Thought." History of Political Thought 25(1): 44-72.

McCrystal, John. 1993. "Revolting Women: The Use of Revolutionary Discourse in Mary Astell and Mary Wollstonecraft Compared." History of Political Thought 14(2): 189-203.

Michelson, Michal. 2007. "’Our Religion and Liberties:’ Mary Astell's Christian Political Polemics.” In Virtue, Liberty, and Toleration: Political Ideas of European Women, 1400-1800, edited by Jacqueline Broad and Karen Green, 111-122. Dordrecht: Springer.

Moser, Elisabeth Hedrick. 2016. “Mary Astell: Some Reflections upon Trauma.” In Feminist Interpretations of Mary Astell, edited by Alice Sowaal and Penny A. Weiss. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press.

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Myers, Joanne E. 2005. “Projecting Agents: Epistemological Critique and the Rhetoric of Belief in Eighteeth-Century British Projects, Volume One.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago.

Myers, Joanne E. 2013. "Enthusiastic Improvement: Mary Astell and Damaris Masham on Sociability." Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 28(3): 533-550.

O’Neill, Eileen. 2007. “Mary Astell on the Causation of Sensation.” In Mary Astell: Reason, Gender, Faith, edited by William Kolbrener and Michael Michelson, 145-164. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Penaluna, Regan. 2007. “Women’s Place? Moral Philosophy and Feminist Thought in Astell, Masham, and Cockburn.” Ph.D. dissertation, Boston University.

Pepper-Smith, Katherine. 1992. “Gender as a Wild Card in Theories of Human Nature: Mary Astell and Mary Wollstonecraft on Education for Women.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Toronto.

Perry, Ruth. 1984. “Mary Astell's Response to the Enlightenment.” In Women and the Enlightenment, edited by Margaret M. J. Hunt, Phyllis Mack, and Ruth Perry, 13-40. New York: Institute for Research in History.

Perry, Ruth. 1985. "Radical doubt and the liberation of women." Eighteenth Century Studies 18: 472-493.

Perry, Ruth. 1986. The Celebrated Mary Astell: An Early English Feminist. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

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Perry, Ruth. 1990. "Mary Astell and the Feminist Critique of Possessive Individualism." Eighteenth Century Studies 234: 44-57.

Pickard, Claire. 2007. “’Great in Humilitie’: A Consideration of Mary Astell’s Poetry.” In Mary Astell: Reason, Gender, Faith, edited by William Kolbrener and Michael Michelson, 115-126. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Shapiro, Lisa. 2013. “The Outward and Inward Beauty of Early Modern Women.” Revue philosophique de la France et de l’étranger 138: 327-346.

Smith, Florence M. 1916. Mary Astell. New York: Columbia University Press.

Smith, Hannah. 2007. “Mary Astell, A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (1694), and the Anglican Reformation of Manners in Late-Seventeenth-Century England.” In Mary Astell: Reason, Gender, Faith, edited by William Kolbrener and Michael Michelson, 31-48. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Smith, Hilda L. 1982. Reason’s Disciples: Seventeenth-Century English Feminists. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Smith, Hilda. 2007. “’Cry up Liberty’: The Political Context for Mary Astell’s Feminism.” In Mary Astell: Reason, Gender, Faith, edited by William Kolbrener and Michael Michelson,193- 204. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

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Sowaal, Alice. 2007. "Mary Astell's Serious Proposal: Mind, Method and Custom." Philosophy Compass 2(2): 227-243.

Sowaal, Alice, and Penny Weiss, eds. 2016. Feminist Interpretations of Mary Astell. University Park: Penn State University Press.

Springborg, Patricia. 1995. "Mary Astell (1666-1731), Critic of Locke." The American Political Science Review 89(3): 621.

Springborg, Patricia. 1998. “Astell, Masham, and Locke: Religion and Politics.” In Women Writers and the Early Modern British Political Tradition, edited by Hilda Smith, 105-125. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Springborg, Patricia. 2005. Mary Astell: Theorist of Freedom from Domination. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Squadrito, Kathleen M. 1987. "Mary Astell’s Critique of Locke’s View of Thinking Matter." Journal of the History of Philosophy 25: 433-439.

Squadrito, Kathleen M. 1991. “Mary Astell.” In The History of Women Philosophers, Volume 3 / Modern Women Philosophers, 1600-1900, edited by Mary Ellen Waithe, 87-100. Boston: Kluwer Academic.

Stanton, Kamille Stone. 2007. "'Affliction, The Sincerest Friend': Mary Astell's Philosophy of Women's Superiority through Martyrdom." Prose Studies 29(1): 104-114.

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Taylor, E. Derek. 2001. "Mary Astell's Ironic Assault on John Locke's Theory of Thinking Matter." Journal of the History of Ideas 62(3): 505-522.

Stuart, Judith Anderson. 2004. “Constructing Female Communities in Writings by Margaret Cavendish, Mary Astell, Eliza Haywood, and Charlotte Lennox.” Ph.D. dissertation, York University.

Sutherland, Christine Mason. 2016. “Mary Astell’s Feminism: A Rhetorical Perspective.” In Feminist Interpretations of Mary Astell, edited by Alice Sowaal and Penny A. Weiss. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press.

Taylor, E. Derek. 2007. “Are You Experienced?: Astell, Locke, and Education.” In Mary Astell: Reason, Gender, Faith, edited by William Kolbrener and Michael Michelson, 181-192. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Titone, Connie. 2007. "Pulling Back the Curtain: Relearning the History of the Philosophy of Education." Educational Studies 41(2): 128-147.

Van Sant, Ann Jessie. 2007. “’Tis better that I endure’: Mary Astell’s Exclusion of Equity.” In Mary Astell: Reason, Gender, Faith, edited by William Kolbrener and Michael Michelson, 127- 144. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Weil, Rachel. 2000. Political Passions: Gender, the Family and Political Argument in England 1680-1714. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

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Weiss, Penny A. 2004. "Mary Astell: Including Women's Voices in Political Theory." Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 19(3): 63-84.

Weiss, Penny. 2016. “’From the Throne to Every Private Family’: Mary Astell as Analyst of Power.” In Feminist Interpretations of Mary Astell, edited by Alice Sowaal and Penny A. Weiss. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press.

Weiss, Penny. 2016. “Locations and Legacies: Reading Mary Astell and Re-Reading the Canon.” In Feminist Interpretations of Mary Astell, edited by Alice Sowaal and Penny A. Weiss. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press.

Wilson, Catherine. 2004. "Love of God and Love of Creatures: The Masham-Astell Debate." History of Philosophy Quarterly 21(3): 281-298.

Zook, Melinda. 2007. “Religious Nonconformity and the Problem of Dissent in the Works of Aphra Behn and Mary Astell. In Mary Astell: Reason, Gender, Faith, edited by William Kolbrener and Michael Michelson, 99-114. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.