Berges, Sandrine2025-02-232025-02-232024-07-121747-9991https://hdl.handle.net/11693/116673In his Politics, Aristotle decreed that human beings neededto take part in politics to flourish, but that women, despitebeing human, needed to stay at home and away from pol-itics. This paper offers an overview of how early modernwomen philosophers worked to makes their lives morepolitical despite being constricted to the domestic sphere.Lucrezia Marinella argued that the home was like a smallcity, requiring quasi political skill to run, Cavendishbelieved that politics should cover the home and its in-habitants, not just the so‐called ‘public domain’. MaryAstell, less optimistic, thought that women could compen-sate for the urge to be political by retreating into a well‐educated mind.EnglishCC BY 4.0 (Attribution 4.0 International Deed)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Article10.1111/phc3.13004