Wise Women's History Month

As Women's History Month gets underway, we're halfway through the first season of our NEH-supported series spotlighting female philosophers from antiquity to the nineteenth century. We recently recorded the next episode in the series about the radical eighteenth-century thinker Margaret Cavendish, which is scheduled to air the week of March 24. Until then, be sure to check out the first four episodes in the series, along with our 2014 episode on the ever-wise Simone de Beauvoir.

Wise Women's History Month

Episode Title Guest Related Content

Im Yunjidang

Hwa Yeong Wang, Professor of Philosophy, Duke Kunshan University The First Confucian Feminist

Mary Astell

Allauren Samantha Forbes, Professor of Philosophy and of Gender and Social Justice, McMaster University The First English Feminist

Elisabeth of Bohemia

Lisa Shapiro, Professor of Philosophy, McGill University The Philosophical Princess

Hypatia of Alexandria

Edward Watts, Professor of History, University of California San Diego Ancient Renaissance Woman

Simone de Beauvoir

Shannon Mussett, Professor of Philosophy, Utah Valley University

Simone de Beauvoir