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WoMen in the History of Philosophy

​Women have throughout the ages been interested in philosophy and practiced philosophy. Resent research shows that there have always been more women in philosophy than commonly assumed. They were often influential in their respective philosophical times and communities but their contributions were for the most part silenced in histories of philosophy. Feminine wisdom has also survived in symbolic and mythological figures and through oral transmissions, as well as in feminist thought within philosophical traditions. The diversity of styles and approaches women employed in their philosophical work require extending narrow notions of what counts as philosophy.  Canons and curricula of philosophy are presently being extended and enriched due to greater awareness of women´s contributions to philosophical thought.
The Committee for Gender Issues will present a Calendar of Women Philosophers from all ages and all parts of the world at the World Congress in 2018. This will only be a small selection of women thinkers and wisdom figures given the many women of the past who have loved wisdom and done their share in pursuing it.
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The thinker, sculpture by Ragnhildur Stefánsdóttir

Calendar of Women Philosophers 

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Research Centers: 
History of Women Philosophers and Scientists
Project Vox

Philosophers 
Introduced in the  Calendar at WCP 2018


​Bedia Akarsu (1921-2016)
Füsun Akath (1944-2010)
Antigone (ancient Greek figure)
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)
Aspasia of Miletus (5th c. BCE)
Mary Astell (1666-1731)

Teresa de Avila 81515-1582)
Ban Zhao (45-120)
Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)
Bing Zin (1900-1999)
Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)
Cao Wenyi (1039-1115)
Diotima of Mantinea
Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618-1680)
Emilie Du Châtelet (1706-1749)
Larisa Chuhina (1913-2002)
Hedwig Conrad-Marthius (1888-1966)
Anne Conway (1639-1679)
Viola Cordova (1937 – 2002)
Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648/51-1695)
Damaris Cudworth Masham (1659-1708)
Shulamith Firestone (1945-2012)
Wangari Muta Maathai (1940-2011)
Diotima (ancient Greek figure)
Shulamith Firestone (1945-2012)
Emma Goldman (1869-1940)
Mahapajapati Goami (ca 5th/6th centuries BCE)
Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793)
Marie Le Jars de Gournay (1565-1645)
​Pepita Haezrahi (1921-1963)
Hipparchia (300s BCE)
Hypatia of Alexandria (c. 370-415)
​Bibi Khanoom Astarabadi (1858-1921)
​Kim Iryŏp (1896–1971) 
Ellen Kuzwayo (1914-2006)
Khema og Great Wisdom (c. 563-c. 483 BCE)
Li Qingzhao (1084-1155)
Rosa Luxembourg (1871-1919)
Lü Zhi (241-140 BCE)
Wangari Muta Maathai (1940-2011)
Catharine Macaulay (1731-1791)
Mechthild von Magdeburg (1207/10-1282/94)
Ruth Manor (1944-2005)
Damaris Cudworth Masham (1659-1708)
Meng Mu (c. 4th century BCE)
Harriet Hardy Taylor Mill (1807-1858)
Iris Murdoch (1919-1999)
Peseshet (2700 BCE)
​Christine de Pizan (ca. 1364-1430)
Sophia
Edith Stein (1891-1942)

L. Susan Stebbing (1885-1943)
Mere Paea Tipene (Raharuhi) (1955-2014)
Camila Henríquez Ureña (1894-1973)
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
Nina Yulina (1927-2012)
Zhang Ailing (1920-1995)

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