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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.

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"A distinguished series dedicated to women's writing.... Women's writing, the editors explain, reveals a voice of protest in contradistinction to 'the first voice,' the voice of the educated men who created Western culture." - New York Review of Books"

The Contest for Knowledge

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    A Hardback by Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Rebecca Messbarger, Paula Findlen

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 16/05/2005
      ISBN13: 9780226010540, 978-0226010540
      ISBN10: 0226010546
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      Education / Educational sciences / Pedagogy Gender studies: women and girls

      Description

      Book 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.

      Trade Review
      "A distinguished series dedicated to women's writing.... Women's writing, the editors explain, reveals a voice of protest in contradistinction to 'the first voice,' the voice of the educated men who created Western culture." - New York Review of Books"

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