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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Reading Women WritingPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©1992Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501721748
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 840.9/9287/09032 23
LOC classification:
  • PQ245 .H35 1992eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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