The Faculty
Miss Sylvana Tomaselli
College Lecturer and Director of Studies, St John's College.
Cambridge CB2 1TP
Subject groups/Research projects
Departments and Institutes
Research Supervision
Catherine Macaulay, Mary Wollstonecraft, Conjectural History, Gender and Political Thought, Tocqueville, Mill , etc.
Teaching
College Lecturer and Director of Studies Part I, St John's College.
History of Political Theory Plato to the present.
Area of Research Supervision: 18th Century Intellectual History
Other Professional Activities
Europäischen Zentrums für philosophische Geschlechtertheorie (European Centre for the Philosophy of Gender): Founding Member, May 2005, Seigen, Germany.
Key Publications
Books
- The Philosophical Canon in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Essays in Honour of John W. Yolton. Edited by G. A. J. Rogers and Sylvana Tomaselli, Rochester University Press, 1996.
- Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Edited by Sylvana Tomaselli, Cambridge: CUP, 1995 (1991, 2001).
- The Dialectics of Friendship. Edited by Roy Porter and Sylvana Tomaselli, London: Routledge, 1989.
- Rape. Edited by Sylvana Tomaselli and Roy Porter, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986; Pb: Rape: An Historical and Social Enquiry, 1989. With an introductory chapter by Sylvana Tomaselli. Portuguese translation: Estupro, translated by Alves Calado, Rio de Janeiro: Rio Fundo Ed., 1992.
Chapters of books
- 'Montesquieu's L'Esprit des Lois from a Contemporary Feminist Point of View', in Montesquieu zwischen den Disziplinen. Einzel- und kulturwissenschaftliche Zugriffe, Edgar Mass, Günther Lottes, Annett Volmer, Jens Haeseler (Hrsg.), Internationale Konferenz aus Anlass des 250. Todesjahres von Charles-Louis de Montesquieu am Forschungszentrum Europaeische Aufklaerung (Potsdam) Berlin, BWV, 2010.
- Rousseau juge de Locke or Reading Some Thoughts on Education after Émile' in Studies on Locke: Sources, Contemporaries, and Legacy in Honour of G.A.J. Rogers, edited by Sarah Hutton and Paul Schuurman, Dordrecht: Springer, 2008.
- 'The Spirit of Nations', in Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought, Mark Goldie and Robert Wokler (eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- 'Civilization, Patriotism and the Quest for Origins', in Enlightenment and Feminism, Sarah Knott and Barbara Taylor (eds.) London: Palgrave, 2005 (Pb. 2007)
- 'The Enlightenment Debate on Women' (reprint of 1985), in The Enlightenment, Dena Goodman and Kathleen Wellman (eds.), Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
- 'The Role of Woman in Enlightenment Conjectural Histories', in Conceptualizing Women in Enlightenment Thought. Penser la femme au siècle des Lumières, Hans Erich Bödeker and Leiselotte Steinbrügge, Berlin -Verlag Arno Spitz GmbH, 2001.
- 'The Most Public Sphere of All: The Family', in Women and the Public Sphere: Writing and Representation, 1700-1830, Elizabeth Eger, Charlotte Grant, Cliona O. Gallchoir and Penny Warburton (eds.), Cambridge University Press, 2001.
- 'Intolerance, the Virtue of Princes and Radicals', in Toleration in Enlightenment Europe, Ole Grell and Roy Porter (eds.), Cambridge University Press, 2000.
- 'The Death and Rebirth of Character in the Eighteenth Century', in Rewriting the Self: Histories from the Renaissance to the Present, Roy Porter (ed.), Routledge, 1996.
- 'Political Economy: The Desires and Needs of Present and Future Generations', in Inventing Human Science, Christopher Fox, Roy Porter, and Robert Wokler (eds.), The University of California Press, 1995.
- 'Reflections on the History of the Science of Woman', in A Question of Identity, Marina Benjamin (ed.), Rutgers University Press, 1993; (reprinted from History of Science, xxix (June 1991) 185-205, as listed below.)
- 'Moral Philosophy and Population Questions in Eighteenth-Century Europe', in Population, Resources and Environment, M. S. Teitelbaum and J. M. Winter (eds.), special supplement to Population and Development Review (1988) and Cambridge University Press (1989).
Other Publications
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2008, Edition, Revised 2010), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = http://plato.stanford.edu: Wollstonecraft, Mary
Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie, Helmut Holzhey (ed.), Basel: Verlag Schwabe & Co. AG, 2004: Wollstonecraft, Mary
Oxford Companion to the Body, Colin Blakemore and Shelia Jennett (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001: Shame, Rape, Savages.
Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century British Philosophers, J.W. Yolton, John Valdimir Price and John Stephens (eds.), Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1999; Reprinted in Dictionary of Irish Philosophers, Thomas Duddy (ed), Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2004: Hamilton, Elizabeth.
Dictionary of Ethics, Theology and Society, Paul Barry Clarke and Andrew Linzey (eds.), London: Routledge, 1996: Rape.
A Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century World History, Jeremy Black and Roy Porter (eds.), Basil Blackwell, 1994:
A Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century World History, Jeremy Black and Roy Porter (eds.), Basil Blackwell, 1994: multiple entries.
The Blackwell Companion to the Enlightenment, edited by John Yolton , Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991: multiple entries.
A Biographical Dictionary of the History of Medicine and Allied Subjects, Roy Porter (ed.), Kos (Florence: Franco Maria Ricci Publications, 1984-): multiple entries.