Cartesian Women(English, Electronic book text, Harth Erica)

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Cartesian Women(English, Electronic book text, Harth Erica) is written by Harth Erica and published by Cornell University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1501721747 (ISBN 10) and 9781501721748 (ISBN 13).

The little-known writings that Erica Harth examines here reveal a remarkable chapter in the history of Western thought. Drawing upon current theoretical work in gender studies, cultural history, and literary criticism, Harth looks at how women in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France attempted to overcome gender barriers and participated in the shaping of rational discourse.