Download or read book Eight Women Philosophers written by Jane Duran and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work traces the themes of standard philosophical theorising and feminist thought across eight women philosophers in the Western tradition: Hildegard of Bingen, Anne Conway, Mary Astell, Mary Wollstonecraft, Harriet Taylor Mill, Edith Stein, Simone Weil and Simone de Beauvoir.