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Lydia Moland

@lydiamoland.bsky.social

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Biographer & philosopher, not necessarily in that order. ✍️ LYDIA MARIA CHILD: A RADICAL AMERICAN LIFE. Bylines in WaPo, WSJ, BoGlobe. OUP Handbook of 19C women philosophers is out! Current project: women pacifists philosophizing in the early 20th century.

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · Nov 27

Reintroducing myself to 🦋 via my 2022 bio of American abolitionist Lydia Maria Child. I wrote this book in response to the 2016 election. Her example of resilience and dedication is more relevant than ever. If you are looking for inspiration in this moment, I humbly recommend you give LMC a try!

Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · Jul 16

Thanks, Patrick, for your wonderful chapter!

Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · Jul 16

Thank you, Sandrine, for your powerful chapter on Germaine de Staël, Anna Julia Cooper, and Louisa May Alcott! So glad to include that here.

Sandrine Berges @sandrineankara.bsky.social · Jul 15

Big and beautiful!

My copy of the Oxford handbook of American and British women philosophers in the 19th century.

Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · Jul 16

On its way! Thanks for the suggestion.

Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · Jul 16

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · Jul 16

... to journalistic articles, speeches, dialogues, and novels. They philosophized about social issues from #abolition to #suffrage, racial justice, animal rights, education, and #pacifism. A rich history of philosophical engagement that shows us what philosophy can be and do!
#philsky #womenshistory

Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · Jul 16

. . .#aesthetics, philosophy of gender, nature, science, literature, language ...they philosophized as #utilitarians, #Kantians, #Hegelians, #existentialists, #transcendentalists, #idealists, #positivists...they philosophized in a wide range of formats from academic articles to scholarly books...

Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · Jul 16

Thanks to @drleonj.bsky.social for the request to post the TOC of our new Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the #19C: here it is! In these pages, women philosophize about #epistemology, #metaphysics, #politicalphilosophy, #ethics, #logic, philosophy of religion... 1/3

Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · Jul 16

Thanks to your wife for her philosophizing! The chapter are available online if she can find a library with an electronic copy. Let me know if I can help.

Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · Jul 16

The chapters are available online if you can find a library with an electronic copy. Let me know if I can help!

Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · Jul 16

Thank you so much for your hard work on this!

Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · Jul 16

Thank you so much--it was a joy to give these thinkers the attention they deserve.

Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · Jul 15

#philsky #womeninphilosophy #womenshistory @alisabokulich.bsky.social @eileenmhunt.bsky.social @kristingjesdal.bsky.social @dalianassar.bsky.social @clintontolley.bsky.social @sandrineankara.bsky.social @americanstudier.bsky.social #19C

Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · Jul 15

Weighing in at 827 pages and 2 1/4 inches, our Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the 19th Century is HERE! Huge thanks to @oupphilosophy.bsky.social and our 50+ authors. Restoring women to the philosophical canon is a matter of justice, but it is also better scholarship!

Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century cover

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · Jun 15

Melissa Hortman had received a degree in #philosophy from BU. My heart goes out especially to her children

Boston University @bostonu.bsky.social · Jun 15

"The entire BU community grieves the loss of one of our cherished alumnae, Melissa Hortman, who was a beloved and respected public servant. We send deep condolences to her family, her friends, and to the people of Minnesota on this tragic and saddest of days." - President Melissa Gilliam

Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman, a Boston University Alum, Shot and Killed Along with Her Husband

She is remembered for her “grace and compassion.” BU president says the University community grieves the loss of a "beloved and respected public servant."

Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · Jun 16

Melissa Hortman's #philosophy degree was from #BostonUniversity, which is also my alma mater. An exemplary life of applied philosophical principles cut short.
#philsky #womeninphilosophy

Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · May 23

Happy Birthday, Margaret #Fuller! A good year for her--wonderful treatment of her importance in both these new publications. More this year in our OUP volume on American women #philosophers. #philsky #womeninphilosophy #americanphilosophy #transcendentalism

Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · Apr 6

I'm honored that my review in @theamscho.bsky.social of Randall Fuller's "Bright Circle: Five Remarkable Women in the Age of Transcendentalism" was included in @americanstudier.bsky.social's always excellent #ScholarSunday. Such a fabulous resource. Toward a more perfect union indeed. Thank you!

Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · Apr 6

Yesterday folks around the country raised their voices in powerful protest. Today, we celebrate public scholarly voices working to help us resist, learn, & push toward a more perfect union, with my 219th #ScholarSunday thread. Share widely & enjoy! 🗃️

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#ScholarSunday Thread 219

Shared on April 6, 2025

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · Apr 1

@kristingjesdal.bsky.social @eileenmhunt.bsky.social @sandrineankara.bsky.social @dalianassar.bsky.social #philsky #womenshistory #books

Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · Apr 1

That's a wrap on my series of recent books on women in #philosophy for #womenshistorymonth! You can see them individually in my profile--an impressive list, and I'm sure there are others.

If we don't think they're there, we won't look; if we don't look we won't find them. Here's to finding more!

Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · Apr 1

I'm afraid I'm not above reposting this! Thanks to @kristingjesdal.bsky.social for adding me (and the other Lydia--who was AMAZING) to our list of recent books on women in philosophy to close out #womenshistorymonth.
#philsky #abolition #ushistory

Kristin Gjesdal @kristingjesdal.bsky.social · Mar 31

Final panel of my #womenshistorymonth tetraptych. A book @lydiamoland.bsky.social has not mentioned: her own! «Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life» is truly inspiring & relevant. We need more Lydias – of the #19C and of the #21C kind.

@uchicagopress.bsky.social
#philsky #books

Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · Mar 31

Celebrating the last week of #womenshistorymonth with recent books on women philosophers # 16!
#philsky #19c #transcendentalism #americanphilosophy

Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · Mar 30

If you are in the #Northampton #MA area, I highly recommend @patrickgabridge.bsky.social's powerful play about Maria Weston Chapman, Susan Paul, Julia Williams, & Lydia Maria Child navigating issues of race & class in the struggle for women's suffrage!
www.historicnorthampton.org/light-under-...

Light Under the Dome

Historic Northampton, in collaboration with Plays In Place and in partnership with the Racial Justice Team of the Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence, proudly presents

www.historicnorthampton.org

Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · Mar 30

...Mary Moody Emerson, Elizabeth Peabody, Sophia #Hawthorne, Lydia Jackson #Emerson, and Margaret #Fuller. The book showcases their philosophizing & documents how men around them both condescended to them & appropriated their thought. They deserve better! #19C #philsky @americanstudier.bsky.social

Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · Mar 30

Celebrating the last week of #womenshistorymonth with recent books on women philosophers # 15--this time with my new review in @theamscho.bsky.social of BRIGHT CIRCLE by Randall Fuller, a compelling group bio of five deeply philosophical women...
#philsky #19C
theamericanscholar.org/transcending...

Transcending the Glass Ceiling - The American Scholar

Five women who made important contributions to 19th-century American philosophy finally get their due

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · Mar 29

Great idea—will work on this for the final day!