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

Rebecca M. Wilkin

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2008

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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.

ISBN-13
9780754661382
ISBN-10
0754661385
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year
2008
Publication date
2008-11-28
Pages
264
Dimensions
164x243x21
Weight
562