Three Cartesian feminist treatises

Three Cartesian feminist treatises

by Marcelle Maistre Welch, François Poulain de La Barre, Vivien Bosley

Part of The other voice in early modern Europe

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One of the most radical feminist theorists in Europe before the nineteenth century, François Poullain de la Barre (1647-1723) was a man way ahead of his time. Applying Cartesian principles to 'the Woman Question', he demonstrated by rational deduction that the supposedly 'self-evident' inequality of the sexes was nothing more than unfounded prejudice. Poullain published three books (anonymously) on this topic in the 1670s, all of which are included in English translation in this volume.

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