LEADER 03274oam 2200505I 450 001 9910154608103321 005 20221228122910.0 010 $a1-351-87160-9 010 $a1-315-23362-2 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315233628 035 $a(CKB)3710000000965654 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4758262 035 $a(OCoLC)965444252 035 $a(BIP)63375378 035 $a(BIP)13698183 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000965654 100 $a20180706e20162008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aWomen, imagination and the search for truth in early modern France /$fRebecca M. Wilkin 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (264 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aWomen and Gender in the early Modern World 300 $a"First published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso. 311 08$a0-7546-6138-5 311 08$a1-351-87161-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Common sense : Johann Weyer and the psychology of witchcraft -- 2. The touchstone of truth : Jean Bodin's torturous hermeneutics -- 3. Masle morale in the body politic : Guillaume du Vair and Andre? du Laurens -- 4. The suspension of difference : Michel de Montaigne's lame lovers -- 5. "Even women" : cartesian rationalism reconsidered. 330 $aGrounded in medical, juridical, and philosophical texts of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France, this innovative study tells the story of how the idea of woman contributed to the emergence of modern science. Rebecca Wilkin focuses on the contradictory representations of women from roughly the middle of the sixteenth century to the middle of the seventeenth, and depicts this period as one filled with epistemological anxiety and experimentation. She shows how skeptics, including Montaigne, Marie de Gournay, and Agrippa von Nettesheim, subverted gender hierarchies and/or blurred gender difference as a means of questioning the human capacity to find truth; while "positivists" who strove to establish new standards of truth, for example Johann Weyer, Jean Bodin, and Guillaume du Vair, excluded women from the search for truth. The book constitutes a reevaluation of the legacy of Cartesianism for women, as Wilkin argues that Descartes' opening of the search for truth "even to women" was part of his appropriation of skeptical arguments. This book challenges scholars to revise deeply held notions regarding the place of women in the early modern search for truth, their role in the development of rational thought, and the way in which intellectuals of the period dealt with the emergence of an influential female public. 410 0$aWomen and gender in the early modern world. 606 $aWomen in science$zFrance 606 $aLearning and scholarship$zFrance 615 0$aWomen in science 615 0$aLearning and scholarship 676 $a305.43/5094409031 700 $aWilkin$b Rebecca May$0934495 801 0$bFlBoTFG 801 1$bFlBoTFG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154608103321 996 $aWomen, imagination and the search for truth in early modern France$92104384 997 $aUNINA