Gabrielle Suchon
Encyclopedia
Gabrielle Suchon was a French
moral
philosopher and Catholic
feminist
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France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
moral
Ethics
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philosopher and Catholic
Catholicism
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feminist
Feminism
Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women. Its concepts overlap with those of women's rights...
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Further reading
- Traité de la morale et de la politique (On Morality and Politics), Gabrielle Suchon (1693).
- Du Célibat volontaire (On Voluntary Single Life), Gabrielle Suchon (1700).
- Gabrielle Suchon: une Ecrivaine engagée pour une vie sans engagement (A Writer Committed To a Life Without Commitment), Sonia Bertolini (1977).
- ‘Gabrielle Suchon’s Neutralistes’, in Relations and relationships (Desnain, 2006)
- ‘Gabrielle Suchon: de l’éducation des femmes’ in Seventeenth Century French Studies (Desnain, 2004)
- "The Origins of la vie neutre: Nicolas Caussin's Influence on the Writings of Gabrielle Suchon" in French Studies (desnain, 2009 )
In English
- A Woman Who Defends All the Persons of Her Sex: Selected Philosophical and Moral Writings, translated by Domna C. Stanton and Rebecca M. Wilkin, University of Chicago Press (2010) ISBN 0-226-77921-1