Cartesian Women : : Versions and Subversions of Rational Discourse in the Old Regime / / 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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1992 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Reading Women Writing
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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