TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harth,Erica
TI  - Cartesian Women: Versions and Subversions of Rational Discourse in the Old Regime 
T2  - Reading Women Writing
SN  - 9781501721748
AV  - PQ245 .H35 1992eb
U1  - 840.9/9287/09032 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Sex differences
KW  - History
KW  - 17th century
KW  - 18th century
KW  - French literature
KW  - Women authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Philosophy, French
KW  - Précieuses
KW  - Rationalism
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - France
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / France
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501721748
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501721748
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501721748/original
ER  -