Women Thinkers videos now on YouTube

Thanks for making this series. Your explanations of the contexts were very informative. Many of the names were new to me.

Another woman thinker I recently came across was Ban Zhao of China. From wikipedia:

Ban Zhao, 45 or 49 - c. 117/120 CE, was a Chinese historian, philosopher, and politician. She was the first known female Chinese historian and, along with Pamphile of Epidaurus, one of the first known female historians. ... She also wrote Lessons for Women, an influential work on women's conduct. ... She became China's most famous female scholar and an instructor of Taoist sexual practices for the imperial family.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban_Zhao

Given that she had a wide variety to her writings and that she wrote a conduct guide for women, it seems like she may have been a good addition.

What was most noteable to me about the series, was how little you had to speak about. Almost a thousand years. It's possible that women in the past just didn't do much philosophy. With our modern conveniences, modern economy and state services; we forget how much time, cleaning, cooking, buying food, making clothes and childcare took up. Though wealthy women might've had just as much time as wealthy men to devote to writing, given all the servants they had. Or it might be that we today, are at the whim of the tastes of the scribes and wealthy patrons who commisioned manuscripts hundreds of years ago. Women wrote plenty, but we only have what scribes and patrons copied out or paid to have copied out. On the In Our Time podcast, they mentioned that we have only eight copies fom antiquity of Aristophanes' play Lysistrata, which people are interested in. But we have about 150 copies of Aristophanes' Wealth, which they're less interested in. What is interesting to us today, might be very different from what interested the people making and commissioning manuscripts in the past. My favourite work from antiquity is Euripedes' Medea. In Greek theatrical competetion, that play took third place and last place. Third and last place. It seems we're lucky to still have it with us today. Maybe it was a wealthy woman who wanted a copy made.