Rebecca M. Wilkin

Women, Imagination and the Search for Truth in Early Modern France

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Produktbeschreibung

Tells the story of how the idea of woman contributed to the emergence of modern science. This study focuses on the contradictory representations of women from roughly the middle of the sixteenth century to the middle of the seventeenth, and depicts this period as one filled with epistemological anxiety and experimentation.

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Produktdetails

• Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780754661382
• ISBN-10: 0754661385
• Artikelnr.: 44973444

Autorenporträt

Rebecca M. Wilkin is Assistant Professor of French at the Pacific Lutheran University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Common sense: Johann Weyer and the psychology of witchcraft
The touchstone of truth: Jean Bodin's torturous hermeneutics
Masle morale in the body politic: Guillaume du Vair and André du Laurens
The suspension of difference: Michel de Montaigne's lame lovers
'Even women': Cartesian rationalism reconsidered
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.