38-02 – Lo Sguardo | Rivista di Filosofia Online https://www.losguardo.net Mon, 03 Mar 2025 22:51:27 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.15 Agency, Authorship, and Authority in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century Midwifery Manuals Written by Women https://www.losguardo.net/en/agency-authorship-and-authority-in-seventeenth-and-eighteenth-century-midwifery-manuals-written-by-women-2/ Mon, 03 Mar 2025 22:50:40 +0000 https://www.losguardo.net/?p=6074 CONTRIBUTI / 4 / Martina Guzzetti This paper considers the manifold strategies used by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century midwives to actively take part both in the circulation of notions and evidence about pregnancy, labour, and childcare, and how they sought to regain control of such a gendered area of medicine as midwifery and obstetrics by countering...

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]]> Hierarchy of Beings and Equality of Men and Women in Catharine Trotter Cockburn’s Philosophy https://www.losguardo.net/en/caroline-von-wolzogen-e-la-kleinoffentlichkeit-strategie-autoriali-di-esistenza-tra-anonimato-e-relazionalita-2-2/ Mon, 03 Mar 2025 22:40:35 +0000 https://www.losguardo.net/?p=6070 CONTRIBUTI / 5 / Sofia Beatriz Calvente In the early modern period the chain of being thesis was used by naturalists and philosophers to justify female subordination. My aim is to establish whether Catharine Trotter Cockburn’s endorsement of this thesis entails that differences between sexes assigns differentiating places in the scale or not. I will...

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]]> Caroline von Wolzogen e la Kleinöffentlichkeit. Strategie autoriali di esistenza tra anonimato e relazionalità https://www.losguardo.net/en/caroline-von-wolzogen-e-la-kleinoffentlichkeit-strategie-autoriali-di-esistenza-tra-anonimato-e-relazionalita-3/ Mon, 03 Mar 2025 22:36:43 +0000 https://www.losguardo.net/?p=6068 CONTRIBUTI / 6 / Chiara Maciocci Caroline von Wolzogen and the Kleinöffentlichkeit: Authoritative strategies of existence between anonymity and relationality This contribution aims to account for the role of the writer Caroline von Wolzogen in the sociocultural context of the Weimar Classicism. Specifically, an attempt will be made to focus on the writer’s choice to...

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]]> Authority in the Margins. Paratexts, Politics and History in Louise de Keralio’s Translations https://www.losguardo.net/en/authority-in-the-margins-paratexts-politics-and-history-in-louise-de-keralios-translations-2/ Mon, 03 Mar 2025 22:27:55 +0000 https://www.losguardo.net/?p=6066 CONTRIBUTI / 7 / Vicki Mistacco In her translations of the English travel writer John Carr, Voyage en Hollande and L’Etranger en Irlande, Louise de Keralio (1756-1822) turns a humble, “feminine” activity into an outlet for ideas. Adding copious paratexts (preliminary discourses, translator’s prefaces, translator’s notes, footnotes, a 225-page essay on Dutch commerce) that swell...

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