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100	1		_aLipscomb, Benjamin J. Bruxvoort, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe women are up to something : _bhow Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch revolutionized ethics / _cBenjamin J.B. Lipscomb.
246	3	0	_aHow Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch revolutionized ethics
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bOxford University Press, _c[2021]
264		4	_c©2021
300			_axxx, 326 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 277-319) and index.
520	8		_aThe story of four remarkable women who shaped the intellectual history of the 20th century: Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch. On the cusp of the Second World War, four women went to Oxford to begin their studies: a fiercely brilliant Catholic convert; a daughter of privilege longing to escape her stifling upbringing; an ardent Communist and aspiring novelist with a list of would-be lovers as long as her arm; and a quiet, messy lover of newts and mice who would become a great public intellectual of our time. They became lifelong friends. At the time, only a handful of women had ever made lives in philosophy. But when Oxford's men were drafted in the war, everything changed. As Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch labored to make a place for themselves in a male-dominated world, as they made friendships and families, and as they drifted toward and away from each other, they never stopped insisting that some lives are better than others. They argued that courage and discernment and justice-and love-are the heart of a good life. This book presents the first sustained engagement with these women's contributions: with the critique and the alternative they framed. Drawing on a cluster of recently opened archives and extensive correspondence and interviews with those who knew them best, Benjamin Lipscomb traces the lives and ideas of four friends who gave us a better way to think about ethics, and ourselves.
505	0		_aPreface -- Acknowledgments -- A note on names -- A note to American readers -- Facts and values -- Oxford in wartime -- Daughters of 1919 -- The coming philosophers -- Murdoch's diagnosis -- Elizabeth Anscombe versus the world -- The Somerville senior common room -- Slipping out over the wall -- "Time, life the sea..." -- Notes -- Image credits -- Bibliography -- Index.
600	1	0	_aAnscombe, G. E. M. _q(Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret)
600	1	0	_aFoot, Philippa.
600	1	0	_aMidgley, Mary, _d1919-2018.
600	1	0	_aMurdoch, Iris. _921737
650		0	_aWomen philosophers _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aEthics _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y20th century.
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