The Contest for Knowledge: Debates Over Women's Learning in Eighteenth-Century Italy by Maria Gaetana Agnesi

The Contest for Knowledge: Debates Over Women's Learning in Eighteenth-Century Italy

Maria Gaetana Agnesi with Paula Findlen (Translator), Rebecca Messbarger (Translator)

208 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction education history challenging informative slow-paced
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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 r...

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