Een verzameling teksten van vrouwelijke filosofen uit de zeventiende tot en met de twintigste eeuw, plus korte biografieën. Bevat de volgende teksten of gedeelten uit: The principles of the most ancient and modern philosophy / Peter Loptson (ed.): The works of Mrs Catharine Cockburn: A vindication of the rights of woman / Mary Wollstonecraft: Letters on the laws of man's nature and development / H.G. Atkinson en H. Martineau: Sense, meaning and interpretation. (I) / The Hon. Victoria Lady Welby: The persistent problems of philosophy / Mary Whiton Calkins : Philosophy and the physicists / L. Susan Stebbing: Philosophy in a new key / Susanne K. Langer: On violence / Hannah Arendt: Old age / Simone de Beauvoir: The sovereignty of good / Iris Murdoch: Beast and man: the roots of human nature / Mary Midgley: Metaphysics and the philosophy of mind / G.E.M. Anscombe: Moral arguments / Philippa Foot: A defense of abortion / Judith Jarvis Thomson: Duties and virtues / Onora O'Neill: Evidence and inquiry: towards reconstruction in epistemology.