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Introduction: Women, intellect and politics: their intersection in earlymodern Britain Hilda L. Smith; Part I. Women's Political Writings, 1400-1690:1. Christine de Pizan and the origins of peace theory Berenice A. Carroll; 2.Political thought/political action: Margaret Cavendish's Hobbesian dilemmaAnna Battingelli; 3. Women's political voice in England: 1640-1740 Lois G.Schwoerer; 4. Contextualising Aphra Behn: plays, politics and party, 1679-89Melinda Zook; Part II. Women's Political and Philosophical Writings,1690-1800: 5. Astell, Masham and Locke: religion and politics PatriciaSpringborg; 6. The politics of sense and sensibility: Mary Wollstonecraft andCatharine Macaulay Graham on Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution inFrance Wendy Gunther Canada; 7. Emilie du Chatelet: genius and intellectualauthority Judith Zinsser; Part III. The Intellectual Context and EconomicSetting for Early Modern Women: 8. Contract and coercion: power and gender inLeviathan Jane S. Jacquette; 9. The significant sounds of silence: theabsence of women from the political thought of Sir Robert Filmer and JohnLocke (or 'Why can't a woman be more like a man') Gordon Schochet; 10.Catharine Macaulay: patriot historian J. G. A. Pocock; 11. Investment, votesand 'bribes': women as shareholders in the chartered national companies SusanStaves; Part IV. Legal and Political Prescriptions for Early Modern Women:12. The politics of identity and monarchic government: the debate over femaleexclusion Sarah Hanley; 13. The Holy Roman Empire: women and politics beyondliberalism, individual rights and revolutionary theory Merry Wiesner-Hanks;14. Women as sextons and electors: King's Bench and precedents for women'scitizenship Hilda L. Smith; 15. 'To be some body': married women and 'thehardships of the English laws' Barbara A. Todd; Conclusion: women's writing,women's standing: theory and politics in the early modern period CarolePateman.