Women, imagination and the search for truth in early modern France
By: by Rebecca M. Wilkin.
Series: Women and gender in the early modern world
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780754661382
Subjects: Women in science -- France; Learning and scholarship -- France
Description: "This book challenges scholars to revise deeply held notions regarding the place of women in the early modern search for truth, their role in the development of rational thought, and the way in which intellectuals of the period dealt with the emergence of an influential female public."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Common sense: Johann Weyer and the psychology of witchcraft; title: The touchstone of truth: Jean Bodin's torturous hermeneutics; title: Masle morale in the body politic: Guillaume du Vair and André du Laurens; title: The suspension of difference: Michel de Montaigne's lame lovers; title: Even women : cartesian rationalism reconsidered.