François Poulain de la Barre and the invention of modern equality
"In a tour de force of intellectual history, Siep Stuurman rediscovers the remarkable early Enlightenment figure Francois de Poulain de la Barre. A dropout from theology studies at the Sorbonne, Poulain embraced the philosophy of Descartes, became convinced of the injustice and absurdity of the subjection of women, and assembled an entirely original social philosophy
Print Book, English, 2004
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2004