Akka Mahadevi

Gargi, Maitreyi, Sulabha, and Akka Mahadevi from India. Ban Zhao, Jin Jiang, and Mei Danran from China. Im Yunjidang from Korea. Rabia from Basra in today’s Iraq. Aisha Al-Ba’Uniyyah from Damascus. Nana Asma’u from today’s Nigeria. Sor Juana from Mexico. These are some of the women philosophers and thinkers from the Global South, all born before the 19th century, who Dag Herbjørnsrud covers in his essay «First women philosophers» at Aeon […]