The contest for knowledge : debates over women's learning in eighteenth-century Italy / Maria Gaetana Agnesi [and others] ; edited and translated by Rebecca Messbarger and Paula Findlen ; with an introduction by Rebecca Messbarger.

At a time when women were generally excluded from scholarly discourse in the intellectual centers of Europe, four extraordinary female letterate proved their parity as they lectured in prominent scientific and literary academies and published in respected journals. During the Italian Enlightenment,...

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Contributors: Agnesi, Maria Gaetana, 1718-1799, Messbarger, Rebecca Marie, Findlen, Paula
Corporate Contributor: Accademia di Padova.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Italian
Latin
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2005.
Series:Other voice in early modern Europe.
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Genre/Form:Electronic books
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central