Queens of philosophy

The reader of the history of philosophy almost wonders: why was philosophy exclusive to men and not women? But he refrains from asking the question when he searches in books that dedicated space for women philosophers, including "Queens of Philosophy," which limited its pages to 20 thinkers who stood out, carved terms, and contributed insights that enriched philosophical thought over two millennia and more, starting from Diotima, and Ban Zhao (the first female historian in ancient China), Hannah Arendt, the Oxfordians, Hypatia, through to Angela Davis (the most famous symbol of the American Black Power movement), then Aziza Al-Hibri (who stopped her research on the intersection of contemporary Western concepts, such as gender equality, with Islamic legislation). The interested reader in the feminist philosophical achievement will find his answer in "Queens of Philosophy," with its biographies and illustrations, and the insights and reflections it offers. But the question, influenced by this book and similar works, has become: why were women marginalized from the philosophical arena?