9780226010540: The Contest For Knowledge: Debates Over Women's Learning In Eighteenth-century Italy
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ISBN 10 : 0226010546 ISBN 13 : 9780226010540
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2005

Synopsis

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, Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Giuseppa Eleonora Barbapiccola, Diamante Medaglia Faini, and Aretafila Savini de' Rossi were afforded unprecedented deference in academic debates and epitomized the increasing ability of women to influence public discourse.

The Contest for Knowledge reveals how these four women used the methods and themes of their male counterparts to add their voices to the vigorous and prolific debate over the education of women during the eighteenth century. In the texts gathered here, the women discuss the issues they themselves thought most urgent for the equality of women in Italian society specifically and in European culture more broadly. Their thoughts on this important subject reveal how crucial the eighteenth century was in the long history of debates about women in the academy.

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À propos des auteurs

Rebecca Messbarger is associate professor of Italian at Washington University in St. Louis. Paula Findlen is Ubaldo Pierotti Professor in Italian History at Stanford University.


Rebecca Messbarger is associate professor in romance languages at Washington University in St. Louis and the coeditor and cotranslator of The Contest for Knowledge: Debates over Women's Learning in Eighteenth-Century Italy, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0226010546
ISBN 13 
9780226010540
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
2
Nombre de pages
208
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9780226010557: The Contest for Knowledge: Debates over Women's Learning in Eighteenth-Century Italy

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ISBN 10 :  0226010554 ISBN 13 :  9780226010557
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2005
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