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Give me names of women philosophers and lawyers of the 19th and 20th century?


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Marilyn McCord Adams, (born 1943) O
Linda Martin Alcoff
Alice Ambrose, (1906-2001)
Pamela Sue Anderson
Julia Annas
G. E. M. Anscombe, (1918-2001) C O R W
Hannah Arendt, (1906-1975) C O R W
Arete of Cyrene, (4th century B.C.)
Aristoclea, (6th century B.C)
Aspasia of Miletus, (5th century B.C.)
Mary Astell, (1666-1731) A B C D1 D2 R
Babette Babich (1956-)
Linda Badham, (born 1950)
Annette Baier, (born 1929) O
Ban Zhao, (c. 35-100) D2
Susanne Bobzien
Antoinette Brown, (1825-1921) D2
Judith Butler, (born 1956)
Mary Whiton Calkins, (1863-1930) W
Nancy Cartwright (born 1943) O
Margaret Cavendish, (1623-1673) A B C R
Christine de Pizan, (c. 1365-c. 1430) G R
Andrea Christofidou
Patricia Churchland, (born 1943) C
H㩬㨮e Cixous, (born 1937) R
Catherine Trotter Cockburn, (1679-1749) A B C R W
Lady Anne Finch Conway, (1631-1679) A B C D1 O R W
Simone de Beauvoir, (1908-1986) D1 O R W
㉭ilie du Ch㢴elet, (1706-1749) R
Raya Dunayevskaya, (1910-1987)
Dorothy Edgington
George Eliot, (1819-1880) G R
Elisabeth of Bohemia, (1618-1680) A B C R
Philippa Foot, (born 1920) C O W
Dorothea Frede, (1941-)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, (1860-1935)
Hannah Ginsborg
Emma Goldman, (1869–1940)
Marie de Gournay, (1565-1645) D2
Celia Green, (born 1935)
Susan Haack, (born 1945) W
Jane Heal
??nes Heller, (born 1929)
Heloise, (1101-1162) D2
Mary Hesse, (born 1924)
Hildegard of Bingen, (1098-1179) D1 R
Hipparchia, (4th century BC)
Jennifer Hornsby, (born 1951) O
Rosalind Hursthouse
Hypatia of Alexandria, (370-415) C R
Luce Irigaray, (born 1930) C O R
Martha Klein
Christine Korsgaard
Julia Kristeva, (born 1941) C O R
Susanne Langer, (1895-1985) O R W
Mich㨬e Le D哵ff, (born 1948) O R
Leontion, (4th century BC)
Rosa Luxemburg, (1871-1919) R
Catherine Macaulay, (1731-1791) G
Ruth Barcan Marcus, (born 1921) C O
Harriet Martineau, (1802-1876) R W
Damaris Cudworth Masham, (1659-1708) A B C R
Mechthild of Magdeburg, (1210-1285) G
Mary Midgley, (born 1919) W
Ruth Millikan, (born 1933) O
Iris Murdoch, (1919-1999) O W
Nancey Murphy, (born 1951)
Judith Sargent Murray, (1751-1820) D2
Martha Nussbaum, (born 1947) C O
Onora O'Neill, (born 1941) O W
Janet Radcliffe Richards, (born 1944) O
Ayn Rand, (1905-1982) R
Rosemary Radford Ruether, (born 1936)
Ruth Lydia Saw
Anna Maria van Schurman, (1607-1678) D2 R
Lady Mary Shepherd, (1777-1847) A C
Sor Juana, (1648-1695) D2
Anne Louise Germaine de Sta㫬, (1766-1817) R
L. Susan Stebbing, (1885-1943) W
Edith Stein, (1891-1942) D1
Gabrielle Suchon, (1631-1703) R
Harriet Taylor Mill, (1807-1858) C D1 R
Teresa of Avila, (1515-1582) C
Judith Jarvis Thomson, (born 1929) C O W
Baroness Mary Warnock, (born 1924) O
Simone Weil, (1909-1943) C D1 O R
Victoria, Lady Welby, (1837-1912) W
Mary Wollstonecraft, (1759-1797) C D1 G O R W
Frances Wright, (1795-1852) D2
Dorothy Maud Wrinch, (1894-1976)

The most successful female attorney to my knowledge was Gladys Root. Here's a great article on her: http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_mu...

Beyond her, look at Gloria Allred, et al, from Court TV.