TY - GEN N2 - During the oppressive reign of Louis XIV, Gabrielle Suchon (16231703) was the most forceful female voice in France, advocating women's freedom and self-determination, access to knowledge, and assertion of authority. This volume collects Suchon's writing from two worksTreatise on Ethics and Politics (1693) and On the Celibate Life Freely Chosen; or, Life without Commitments (1700)and demonstrates her to be an original philosophical and moral thinker and writer. Suchon argues that both women and men have inherently similar intellectual, corporeal, and spiritual capacities, which entitle them. AB - During the oppressive reign of Louis XIV, Gabrielle Suchon (16231703) was the most forceful female voice in France, advocating women's freedom and self-determination, access to knowledge, and assertion of authority. This volume collects Suchon's writing from two worksTreatise on Ethics and Politics (1693) and On the Celibate Life Freely Chosen; or, Life without Commitments (1700)and demonstrates her to be an original philosophical and moral thinker and writer. Suchon argues that both women and men have inherently similar intellectual, corporeal, and spiritual capacities, which entitle them. T1 - A woman who defends all the persons of her sexselected philosophical and moral writings / DA - 2010. CY - Chicago ; London : AU - Suchon, Gabrielle, AU - Stanton, Domna C. AU - Wilkin, Rebecca May. AU - Suchon, Gabrielle, CN - ProQuest Ebook Central CN - HQ1201 PB - University of Chicago Press, PP - Chicago ; London : LA - eng PY - 2010. N1 - Translated from the French. N1 - Description based on print version record. ID - 351891 KW - Women KW - Political ethics KW - Celibacy SN - 9780226779232 TI - A woman who defends all the persons of her sexselected philosophical and moral writings / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=534560 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=534560 ER -