Primary Source
Suchon, Gabrielle. A Woman Who Defends All the Persons of Her Sex: Selected Philosophical and Moral Writings.
Edited and translated by Domna C. Stanton and Rebecca M. Wilkin, University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Secondary Sources
MacDonald, Mary Jo. “‘Persons of the Sex Are True Wonders’: Gabrielle Suchon on Difference and Political Wonders.” Political Theory, vol. 52, no. 1, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1177/00905917231200828. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
- This article explores Suchon’s depictions of the differences in sexes. It also explains and explores how she uses language to criticize and reframe women’s traits in her literature. Emphasis is put on Suchon’s use of “Wondrous” as a philosophical strategy to redefine women’s value.
Desnain, Véronique. “Gabrielle Suchon: Militant Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century France.” Forum for Modern Language Studies, vol. 49, no. 3, 2012, pp. 257–71, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqs030. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
- This article analyzes Suchon’s debates on women’s education, autonomy, and intellectual abilities. It also explores her uses of different rhetorical strategies and appeals in order to better understand her arguments. She is painted as a radical but reasonable philosopher that challenged gender norms.
Broad, Jacqueline, and Karen Detlefsen, editors. Women and Liberty, 1600–1800: Philosophical Essays. Oxford University Press, 2017, pp. 50–65.
- This selection focuses on Suchon’s concept of “Neutralist” and examines how she describes a version of autonomy that is different from libertinism. It talks about the differences from her work and Cartesianism as well as broader early modern philosophy. Suchon’s vision of autonomy is compared to an early feminist reimagining of moral independence.