Jacqueline Broad is an Associate Professor of Philosophy in the School of Philosophical, Historical, and International Studies at Monash University, Melbourne. Her main area of research is early modern women's philosophy. She is the author of The Philosophy of Mary Astell (OUP, 2015) and Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century (CUP, 2002), and co-author with Karen Green of A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1400-1700 (CUP, 2009). She recently published a modern edition of Mary Astell's Christian Religion, as Professed by a Daughter of the Church of England (CRRS and Iter, 2013)Karen Detlefsen is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Education at the University of Pennsylvania. She researches the relationship between metaphysics and the life sciences in the early modern period, early modern women philosophers, and the philosophy of education. She is the editor of Descartes' Meditations: A Critical Guide (CUP, 2012). Her articles on Astell, Conway, Descartes, Du Châtelet, Cavendish, Hobbes, Haller, Wolff, and Malebranche have been published in Philosophy Compass, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, Perspectives on Science, and volumes by Oxford, Springer, Routledge, Acumen, Kluwer, Cambridge, and the Pennsylvania State University Press.

• Jacqueline Broad and Karen Detlefsen: Introduction Part I: Ethical and Political Liberty 1: Karen Detlefsen: Liberty and Feminism in Early Modern Women's Writing 2: Martina Reuter: François Poulain de la Barre on the Subjugation of Women 3: Lisa Shapiro: Gabrielle Suchon's 'Neutralist': The Status of Women and the Invention of Autonomy 4: Jacqueline Broad: Marriage, Slavery, and the Merger of Wills: Responses to Sprint, 1700-01 5: Karen Green: Locke, Enlightenment, and Liberty in the Works of Catharine Macaulay and her Contemporaries 6: Lena Halldenius: Mary Wollstonecraft and Freedom as Independence 7: Eric Schliesser: Sophie de Grouchy, The Tradition(s) of Two Liberties, and the Missing Mother(s) of Liberalism 8: Sarah Hutton: Liberty of Mind: Women Philosophers and the Freedom to Philosophize Part II: Metaphysical and Religious Liberty 9: Deborah Boyle: Freedom and Necessity in the Work of Margaret Cavendish 10: Marcy P. Lascano: Anne Conway on Liberty 11: Alice Sowaal: Mary Astell on Liberty 12: Ruth Hagengruber: If I were King! Morals and Physics in Emilie Du Châtelet's Subtle Thoughts on Liberty 13: Emily Thomas: Creation, Divine Freedom, and Catharine Cockburn: An Intellectualist on Possible Worlds and Contingent Laws

What emerges from this collection of papers is a sense of the unique contributions of lesser-known figures in this period to the development of modern notions of freedom and autonomy. But more than this, I would suggest what also emerges is the appreciation a reader gains for the developing feminist consciousness in this period and the importance of this emerging framework for thinking about morality and freedom in the context of women's oppression and liberation. This is an excellent collection and highly recommended for early modern and feminist scholars alike.

Jacqueline Broad is an Associate Professor of Philosophy in the School of Philosophical, Historical, and International Studies at Monash University, Melbourne. Her main area of research is early modern women's philosophy. She is the author of The Philosophy of Mary Astell (OUP, 2015) and Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century (CUP, 2002), and co-author with Karen Green of A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1400-1700 (CUP, 2009). She recently published a modern edition of Mary Astell's Christian Religion, as Professed by a Daughter of the Church of England (CRRS and Iter, 2013)Karen Detlefsen is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Education at the University of Pennsylvania. She researches the relationship between metaphysics and the life sciences in the early modern period, early modern women philosophers, and the philosophy of education. She is the editor of Descartes' Meditations: A Critical Guide (CUP, 2012). Her articles on Astell, Conway, Descartes, Du Châtelet, Cavendish, Hobbes, Haller, Wolff, and Malebranche have been published in Philosophy Compass, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, Perspectives on Science, and volumes by Oxford, Springer, Routledge, Acumen, Kluwer, Cambridge, and the Pennsylvania State University Press.

• Jacqueline Broad and Karen Detlefsen: Introduction Part I: Ethical and Political Liberty 1: Karen Detlefsen: Liberty and Feminism in Early Modern Women's Writing 2: Martina Reuter: François Poulain de la Barre on the Subjugation of Women 3: Lisa Shapiro: Gabrielle Suchon's 'Neutralist': The Status of Women and the Invention of Autonomy 4: Jacqueline Broad: Marriage, Slavery, and the Merger of Wills: Responses to Sprint, 1700-01 5: Karen Green: Locke, Enlightenment, and Liberty in the Works of Catharine Macaulay and her Contemporaries 6: Lena Halldenius: Mary Wollstonecraft and Freedom as Independence 7: Eric Schliesser: Sophie de Grouchy, The Tradition(s) of Two Liberties, and the Missing Mother(s) of Liberalism 8: Sarah Hutton: Liberty of Mind: Women Philosophers and the Freedom to Philosophize Part II: Metaphysical and Religious Liberty 9: Deborah Boyle: Freedom and Necessity in the Work of Margaret Cavendish 10: Marcy P. Lascano: Anne Conway on Liberty 11: Alice Sowaal: Mary Astell on Liberty 12: Ruth Hagengruber: If I were King! Morals and Physics in Emilie Du Châtelet's Subtle Thoughts on Liberty 13: Emily Thomas: Creation, Divine Freedom, and Catharine Cockburn: An Intellectualist on Possible Worlds and Contingent Laws

What emerges from this collection of papers is a sense of the unique contributions of lesser-known figures in this period to the development of modern notions of freedom and autonomy. But more than this, I would suggest what also emerges is the appreciation a reader gains for the developing feminist consciousness in this period and the importance of this emerging framework for thinking about morality and freedom in the context of women's oppression and liberation. This is an excellent collection and highly recommended for early modern and feminist scholars alike.

Jacqueline Broad is an Associate Professor of Philosophy in the School of Philosophical, Historical, and International Studies at Monash University, Melbourne. Her main area of research is early modern women's philosophy. She is the author of The Philosophy of Mary Astell (OUP, 2015) and Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century (CUP, 2002), and co-author with Karen Green of A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1400-1700 (CUP, 2009). She recently published a modern edition of Mary Astell's Christian Religion, as Professed by a Daughter of the Church of England (CRRS and Iter, 2013)Karen Detlefsen is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Education at the University of Pennsylvania. She researches the relationship between metaphysics and the life sciences in the early modern period, early modern women philosophers, and the philosophy of education. She is the editor of Descartes' Meditations: A Critical Guide (CUP, 2012). Her articles on Astell, Conway, Descartes, Du Châtelet, Cavendish, Hobbes, Haller, Wolff, and Malebranche have been published in Philosophy Compass, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, Perspectives on Science, and volumes by Oxford, Springer, Routledge, Acumen, Kluwer, Cambridge, and the Pennsylvania State University Press.

• Jacqueline Broad and Karen Detlefsen: Introduction Part I: Ethical and Political Liberty 1: Karen Detlefsen: Liberty and Feminism in Early Modern Women's Writing 2: Martina Reuter: François Poulain de la Barre on the Subjugation of Women 3: Lisa Shapiro: Gabrielle Suchon's 'Neutralist': The Status of Women and the Invention of Autonomy 4: Jacqueline Broad: Marriage, Slavery, and the Merger of Wills: Responses to Sprint, 1700-01 5: Karen Green: Locke, Enlightenment, and Liberty in the Works of Catharine Macaulay and her Contemporaries 6: Lena Halldenius: Mary Wollstonecraft and Freedom as Independence 7: Eric Schliesser: Sophie de Grouchy, The Tradition(s) of Two Liberties, and the Missing Mother(s) of Liberalism 8: Sarah Hutton: Liberty of Mind: Women Philosophers and the Freedom to Philosophize Part II: Metaphysical and Religious Liberty 9: Deborah Boyle: Freedom and Necessity in the Work of Margaret Cavendish 10: Marcy P. Lascano: Anne Conway on Liberty 11: Alice Sowaal: Mary Astell on Liberty 12: Ruth Hagengruber: If I were King! Morals and Physics in Emilie Du Châtelet's Subtle Thoughts on Liberty 13: Emily Thomas: Creation, Divine Freedom, and Catharine Cockburn: An Intellectualist on Possible Worlds and Contingent Laws

What emerges from this collection of papers is a sense of the unique contributions of lesser-known figures in this period to the development of modern notions of freedom and autonomy. But more than this, I would suggest what also emerges is the appreciation a reader gains for the developing feminist consciousness in this period and the importance of this emerging framework for thinking about morality and freedom in the context of women's oppression and liberation. This is an excellent collection and highly recommended for early modern and feminist scholars alike.