Mary Astell and Sor Juana on their exclusion of the philosophical canon
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https://doi.org/10.30973/esdi.2025.11.1.210Keywords:
Sexism, misogyny, history of philosophy, modern philosophyAbstract
“The oxymoron problem” is the way Eileen O’Neill refers to the thesis that “woman philosopher is something barely possible and always unnatural” (36). In light of the oxymoron problem, this article has two main objectives. The first is to point out how this problem tried to justify the exclusion of women from philosophy, and how this was denounced by two modern authors: Mary Astell and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. The second will be to identify what commitments arise from combating this sexist discourse, that is, it will question how it is necessary to narrate the history of philosophy to recognize the contribution of women in it.
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