Some scholars might doubt the needs to devote a book to female political thinkers alone. They might argue that it is easier to assess the significance and coherence of women’s political ideas when they are placed alongside those of the other sex; and they might point out that apart from their gender, these women have very little in common … But these observations might be made about the majority of histories of political thought – histories that are seriously incomplete because they ignore women thinkers. (p2)
A History of Women’s Political Thought in Europe, 1400-1700, Jacqueline Broad and Karen Green, Cambridge Uni Press, 2009
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