Cartesian Women : : Versions and Subversions of Rational Discourse in the Old Regime / / Erica Harth.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Harth, Erica,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Reading Women Writing
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; A Note on Translation and Orthography --; Introduction: Toward a New Cogito --; 1. Gender and Discursive Space(s) in the Seventeenth Century --; 2. The Cartésiennes --; 3. Fontenelle and the Ladies --; 4. Femmes Philosophes or Femmes/Philosophes? --; Conclusion: Beyond the Ellipsis --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501721748; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501721748
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Erica Harth.

The little-known writings that Erica Harth examines here reveal a remarkable chapter in the history of Western thought. Drawing upon current theoretical work in gender studies, cultural history, and literary criticism, Harth looks at how women in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France attempted to overcome gender barriers and participated in the shaping of rational discourse.