  It is by now a familiar trope that rationalism excludes women. Genevieve Lloyd famously argues that Descartes’s reconceptualization of reason as an attainment, and as an attainment achieved by pure mind uncorrupted by sensuality and society, unintentionally (but significantly) excludes women—whose domestic roles inevitably involved the sensual and the social (Lloyd 1984/1993, 40–51). Susan Bordo characterizes Cartesian “objectivism and mechanism” as a “flight from the female cosmos and ‘feminine’ orientation towards the world” (Bordo 1987, 100, emphasis in the original). Whether or not rationalism constitutively excludes women, it is clear that some individual rationalists do so. See, for instance, Hasana Sharp’s argument that Spinoza sees the better but does the worse in his assertion in the Political Treatise that women are naturally unequal to men (Sharp 2012).