Background
Dykeman, Therese Marie Boos was born on April 11, 1936 in Anamosa, Iowa, United States. Daughter of Leonard Paul and Alvina Marie (Marek) Boos.
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When down from the moon stepped the goddess of the night, she bid Minerva/Athene come to her. "Minerva/Athene," she said, "you sprang fully formed from the head of your father. Now all the daughters of mankind think they, too, are as rootless as you. Tonight I bid you dance, join the circle round 1 that tree glistening with the clarity of wisdom. Mother Natura and Lady Philosophia, hands together, already have begun the promenade of myth and allegory. " Still in the garb of gold and white stone, Minerva/ Athene did as she was bid and danced till dawn. Then in new light, she found herself suddenly a budding flower on a tall branch, and even more swiftly a crystalline fruit, rivaling the morning sun, refracting the light. Behold, she had grown roots, difficult to discover down in the dark of history, deep in the solid knowledge of earth. And the daughters of humankind saw and reveled in their roots. This is the story of this book, a history, long and diverse, of women thinkers and their thought. It will become a legacy for all who study it, a legacy that Heloi"se, Marie de Gournay, Sor Juana Ines de Ia Cruz, and Judith Sargent Murray among many women philosophers assured by composing lists of the names of women little acknowledged century after century. While the Hannah Arendt's, Susanne K.
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English language and philosophy educator
Dykeman, Therese Marie Boos was born on April 11, 1936 in Anamosa, Iowa, United States. Daughter of Leonard Paul and Alvina Marie (Marek) Boos.
Bachelor of Science in English, Creighton University, 1958. Master of Arts in English, Loyola University, Chicago, 1966. Doctor of Philosophy in Rhetoric, Union Institute, 1980.
Lecturer Chicago City College, 1965-1967, Housatonic Community College, Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1970-1980, University Bridgeport, 1981-1991, University Connecticut, Stamford, 1984-1985, Fairfield University, Connecticut, 1986—2004, University Bridgeport Law School, 1986. Seminar presenter Summer Institute American Philosophy, University Colorado, Boulder. Hypatia Women American Philosophical Trad.
President Center for Indiana Study, New Haven, 1989-1991. Board directors Danforth Associate of New England, Plymouth, New Hampshire, president, 1992-1994. Managing editor International Journal Field Being, since 1997.
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Founder Pioneering Parents of Adopted Adolescents, Fairfield, 1989. Board directors Fine Art Academy, Fairfield, 1985. Director Marriage Encounter Connecticut, Stratford, 1975.
Member advisory board Sargent House Museum, Gloucester, Massachusetts, since 1994, Study for Women Philosophers, since 1994. Member American Association of University Women (board directors 1989), Rhetoric Society, American Poetry Society, Society for Study of Women Philosophers (board directors since 1993), Center for Indiana Study.
Married King J. Dykeman, February 7, 1959 (divorced 1994). Children: John, Andria Camille, Kristen.