title: [Radicalism and feminism: The case of Poulain de la Barre].
abstract: Early modern radicalism and its criteria are described and defined by Jonathan Israel in various works. Poulain de la Barre, one of the first modern feminist thinkers, first is used by Israel as an example of the so-called radical Enlightenment and finally is rejected as such. This case study exhibed the necessity of questionning the coherence of the required criteria for defining a « radical » thinker, especially when examinating carefully the last paragraph of Spinoza's Political Treatise.
authors.affiliation: Faculté de philosophie, Université Jean Moulin-Lyon III, 1 rue de l'Université, BP 0638, F-69239, Lyon Cedex 02, France. marie-frederique.pellegrin@univ-lyon3.fr.
authors.forename: Marie-Frédérique
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Pellegrin
keywords: Jonathan Israel; Poulain de la Barre; Spinoza; cartesianism; chastity; christian rationalism; feminism; pleasure and marriage; radicalism; sex equality; spinozism; strenght of mind