This edited collection showcases the contribution of women to the development of political ideas during the Enlightenment, and presents an alternative to the ma

This work shows that the collapse of the post-reformation confessional state was more the result of religious dissent from within, much of it orthodox, than att

Sexual Politics in the Enlightenment constitutes the first book-length feminist study of Rousseau's sexual politics and the reception of his works by women read

After the Enlightenment is the first attempt at understanding modern political realism as a historical phenomenon. Realism is not an eternal wisdom inherited fr