Contest for Knowledge
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A01=Accademia de' Ricovrati
A01=Aretafila Savini de' Rossi
A01=Diamante Medaglia Faini
A01=Maria Gaetana Agnesi
aretafila savini de rossi
Author_Accademia de' Ricovrati
Author_Aretafila Savini de' Rossi
Author_Diamante Medaglia Faini
Author_Maria Gaetana Agnesi
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equality
family
femininity
feminism
gender
giuseppa eleonora barbapiccola
history
intelligence
italian enlightenment
italy
knowledge
learning
maria gaetana agnesi
marriage
masculinity
nonfiction
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Product details
- ISBN 9780226010540
- Weight: 425g
- Dimensions: 16 x 24mm
- Publication Date: 16 May 2005
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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. 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.
