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Beyond Bounds: Infinity in Cavendish’s Ontology

Journal of Modern Philosophy
Margaret Cavendish endorses the view that matter is actually infinite. This paper offers a systematic treatment of Cavendish’s views on infinity as developed in her later philosophical works (roughly, from Philosophical Letters onwards).
Laura Georgescu
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The Extravagance of Form in Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World [PDF]

Caietele Echinox
With its inquiry into the conditions and possibilities of female authorship, Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World (1666) tends to be read as a gendered variation on, or a parodic departure from, the Baconian prototype of the early modern politico ...
Carmen Borbély
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‘Who Is Afraid of Fairenesse or Wanton Ladies Appearing in Their Barenesse?’: Laughing at Female Desire in Early Modern English Reception of the Myth of the Trojan War☆

Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 5, Page 612-631, November 2025.
Abstract In early modern England, as part of a broader interrogation of exemplarity, full‐scale works on the Trojan War often subjected the myth’s heroes to humorous scrutiny, whereas the heroines remained surprisingly untouched by comedy. Testifying to the war’s calamities already in antiquity, in the early modern period, the myth’s women acquired a ...
Evgeniia Ganberg
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Hacia una ética del cuidado ecológico en Margaret Cavendish

Mutatis Mutandis: Revista Internacional de Filosofía
Este artículo explora la filosofía natural de Margaret Cavendish a la luz de dos nociones centrales de la ética del cuidado −la interdependencia y la empatía−, argumentando que puede considerarse a Cavendish como una proto-teórica del cuidado ecológico.
Loreto Espinoza Marchant
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Kenelm Digby (and Margaret Cavendish) on Motion

Journal of Modern Philosophy
Motion—and, in particular, local motion or change in location—plays a central role in Kenelm Digby’s natural philosophy and in his arguments for the immateriality of the soul.
Daniel Whiting
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Power, choice, exposure and fragility: Reframing fairness in equity for the corporate and insolvency sphere

International Insolvency Review, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 302-336, Summer 2025.
Abstract Where is the place of humanity in current corporate and insolvency frameworks and their theoretical underpinning? How can it be assured that the institutions that have been invented through human ingenuity and brilliance serves the collective human experience fully and equitably? Insolvency law has long been theoretically conceptualised on the
Jennifer L. L. Gant
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From critical theory to litigation strategy: Can intersectionality transform EU equality law?

European Law Journal, Volume 31, Issue 1-2, Page 22-41, February-June 2025.
Abstract While legal scholarship has consistently lamented the lack of recognition of intersectional discrimination in courts, the question of whether intersectionality features in lawyers' litigation strategies remains in a blind spot. Although a growing body of interdisciplinary scholarship probes how legal mobilisation shapes the construction of EU ...
Raphaële Xenidis
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Margaret Cavendish’s Femmes Fortes: The Paradoxes of Female Heroism in Bell in Campo (1662)

XVII-XVIII, 2016
This paper proposes to read Margaret Cavendish’s Bell in Campo (1662) in the light of Pierre Le Moyne’s Gallerie des femmes fortes (1647). It shows how this celebration of women’s high deeds sheds an interesting light on the the ambiguous staging of ...
Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille
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Introduction: Exile and Innovation☆

Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 8-25, February 2025.
Abstract The early modern period was an age marked by the forced migration and displacement of social groups and individuals around the world. Huguenots, conversos, Catholics, cavaliers, Jacobites, and French emigrés alike fled or were expelled from their homes and communities.
Annalisa Nicholson, Christophe Gillain
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Exploring mothers' metaphorical sensemaking of dyslexia

Dyslexia, Volume 30, Issue 4, November 2024.
Through a reflexive thematic analysis of a large online support group for dyslexia and a sensemaking lens, this study investigated how mothers made sense of their child's dyslexia through metaphors. Mothers used metaphors to characterise their feelings surrounding dyslexia, their school‐based interactions and their identity as advocates.
Jenna S. Abetz
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