Lydia Moland

Congratulations to @sandrineankara.bsky.social and @alanmsjcoffee.bsky.social on this important book!
#philsky #womeninphilosophy #womenshistory #herstory

Continuing to listen to David Levering Lewis's riveting biography of Du Bois.

In today's chapter, Lewis suggested that Du Bois combined the voices of Sojourner Truth and Schopenhauer and I have not been able to think straight since.

#DuBois #sojournertruth #blackhistory #schopenhauer #philsky

Thank you--so enlightening, if discouraging, to read this history.

Christine Ladd-Franklin AbstractChristine Ladd-Franklin was an American mathematician, logician, psychologist, and philosopher who studied at Vassar and Johns Hopkins and worked i

Read more on Christine Ladd-Franklin here!
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Day 4 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: philosopher, logician, and psychologist Christine Ladd-Franklin!

Ladd-Franklin rethought thought (!) by asking how mathematics & #logic are related. She rethought color by combining #psychology & evolutionary science into a theory of perception.

#WomeninSTEM

Agreed--just finished her novel Iola Leroy and can't stop thinking about it . . .

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: Religion and the Meaning of Democracy in America AbstractAfrican American poet-activist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper addressed the meaning of democracy in America throughout her long social reform career.

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Day 3 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: theorist, novelist & reformer Frances Ellen Watkins Harper!

In "Our Greatest Want," Harper rethought #Tocqueville's theory of public opinion & the story of Moses to argue for a multiracial, democratic society.

H/t Prof. Marcia Robinson! #blackhistory #herstory

Seconded! Here's an image of an exhibit honoring her at the Peace Palace in The Hague. Her novel--Die Waffen Nieder, or Lay Down your Arms--launched modern #pacifism and is absolutely worth reading today.

#WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld #womenshistory #herstory

Thrilled to build on this post--Zitkala-Ša was my next pick for #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld.

Zitkala-Ša, a Yankton Dakota Sioux, rethought the relation between colonizing teacher & indigenous pupil, refusing to call the culture attempting to kill her own a "civilization."

#herstory #nativeamerican

This #WomensHistoryMonth, I'm highlighting 19th and 20th-century women whose work helped rethink the world.

First up: Jane Addams!

Addams' research with Chicago immigrants shaped a philosophy of #pacifism recognized by a #Nobel #Peace Prize in 1931.

#WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld #philsky #herstory

On this *particular* first day of #womenshistorymonth, this image seemed appropriate.

These American women were on a ship bound for Europe to try to end WWI.

#pacifism #philsky #womenshistory #womensbiography #janeaddams #peace #20Chistory #wwi

Thanks to @tullioviola.bsky.social for this wonderful talk on Jane #Addams, WEB Du Bois and the #epistemology of folk narratives. So many rich philosophical threads.
#dubois #philsky #womeninphilosophy #pragmatism

I love Black activist Mary Church #Terrell's refusal here to let her (white) readers dismiss her simple reporting of facts as "bitterness." What a powerful way to claim your story.

#blackhistorymonth #suffrage #pacifism #19C

Brilliant! Thank you!

I am riveted by the account of Du Bois studying German #philosophy at Humboldt University in #Berlin in this incredible biography. The audiobook read by Courtney Vance is . . . did I already say riveting? Resolved: get more philosophers talking about this ...
#philsky #blackhistorymonth #dubois

Thank you! Loved doing this interview--such rich material

Very little has been translated, but we're working on it! Die Liebe und die Frauen is incredible. Just translated into Italian, I recently learned . . .

Exactly my first reaction. Turns out there was a bunch of Nietzsche-inspired feminists in Stöcker's generation--Hedwig Dohm, Lily Braun, Rosa Mayreder, of course Lou Salomé although that one is complicated
#philsky #nietzsche #womeninphilosophy @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com

She was absolutely an individualist--but increasingly opposed to capitalism and its links to militarism/colonialism in her post-WWI pacifist years. Indeed a totally fascinating case study.

Thank you!

So important for those of us who teach Modern #Philosophy to know this history.

cover of Alison Parker's Unceasing Militant

Turning to international writer, speaker & reformer Mary Church Terrell this #blackhistorymonth, grateful for Alison Parker's excellent biography. #Terrell was often the only Black woman at major #pacifism conferences in the early #19C & articulated a powerful vision of peace through racial justice.

Clara Zetkin with Kristin Gjesdal Podcast Episode · Her Place in Theory · 01/20/2026 · 28m

Excellent conversation between @kristingjesdal.bsky.social and @herplacepod.bsky.social on Clara Zetkin—philosopher, activist, powerful critic of fascism. Highly recommend! #philsky #womeninphilosophy #womenshistory podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

The Juvenile Miscellany makes wonderful reading even now. She was ahead of her time in children’s lit too!

So glad to see Lydia Maria Child on the list!

Happy birthday to Lydia Maria Child--a woman so fierce in her pursuit of racial justice, so progressive in her enlightened patriotism, and so inspiring in her activism that when I discovered her, I had to write a book about her. Happy birthday LMC! #19C #womenshistory #otd #womeninphilosophy

Excellent as always--what a resource. Thank you!

Loved talking to @juliettemarchant.bsky.social about the complicated life and philosophy of Helene Stöcker. Her #feminism was radical, her #pacifism was uncompromising, her vision for human flourishing was hugely problematic. Lots to think about.
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@patrickgabridge.bsky.social @americanstudier.bsky.social #womenshistory #abolitionism #civilwar #19C #philsky