Women Philosophers 1500 - 2000 CE

Women Philosophers 1500 - 2000 CE are more documented and because of the printing press we have more extant texts.

List of Women Philosophers 1500 - 2000 CE

• 1550 - 1591 Lorenza Strozzi

• 1562 - ? Oliva Sabuco
• 1565 - 1645 Marie le jars de Gournay
• 1590 - 1670 Asnat Barzani (Asenath Barzani)
• 1600 - 1685 Bathsua Makin
• 1604 - 1660 Elana Cassandra Tarabotti

• 1607 - 1678 - 1670 Anna Maria Van Schurman
• 1617 - 1680 Elizabeth of Bohemina
• 1623 - 1667 Margaret Cavendish
• 1626 - 1689 Kristina Wasa
• 1631 - 1679 Anne Finch
• 1643 - 1703 Gabrielle Suchon
• 1646 - 1684 Helena Lucretia Cornaro Piscopis
• 1658 - 1708 Damaris Cudworth Masham
• 1666 - 1731 Mary Astell
• 1679 - 1749 Catharine Trotter Cockburn
• early 1700's - Sophia
• 1706 - 1749 Emilie du Chatelet
• 1711 - 1778 Laura Bassi
• 1718 - 1799 Maria Gaetana Agnesi
• 1731 - 1791 Catharine Macaulay
• 1745 - 1793 Olympe de Gouges
• 1759 - 1797 Mary Wollstonecraft

• 1785 - 1848 Anna Doyle Wheeler
• 1751 - 1822 Judith Sargent Murray
• 1780 - 1782 Mary Fairfax Somerville
• 1801 - 1879 Hortense de Meritens
• 1802 - 1896 Harriet Martineau
• 1809 - 1875 Jenny Poinsard d'Hericourt
• 1822 - 1907 Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz
• 1834 - 1896 Julie Velten Favre
• 1836 - 1911 Anna Brackett
• 1838 - 1929 Ellen Mitchell
• 1843 - 1916 Susan Blow
• 1849 - 1912 Grace C Bibb
• 1854 - 18998 Marietta Kies
• 1856 - 1918 Helene von Druskowitz ( Helena Maria Druschkovich

• 1869 - 1940 Emma Goldman
• 1876 - 1918 Zitkala-Sa
• 1885 - 1943 Susan Stebbing
• 1895 - 1985 Susanne Langer
• 1906 - 1975 Hannah Arendt
• 1908 - 1986 Simone de Beauvoir

• 1909 - 1938 Simone Weil
• 1919 - 1956 Iris Murdoch

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