  Alternatively, we could find in the work of women philosophers issues that they have developed in a sequential fashion.  Shapiro suggests  that there are certain philosophical issues concerning women's  rationality, nature, and education that women philosophers of the  seventeenth century discuss extensively in a sequential, interactive  fashion. The thread extends into the following century in the work of   Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Wollstonecraft. Since philosophers become  canonical as part of a story anchored at one end by contemporary  philosophical questions that are thought to be central, the task  would be to make these questions ones that we turn to the tradition  for help in answering.  And, of course, these are precisely the  central questions posed and discussed extensively by contemporary  feminism.  Thus, the idea is that as we pose new kinds of questions  to the history of philosophy we will find in women philosophers an  important, sequential discussion that we can securely thread into  our curricula and textbooks.