Not Simply «Impertinencies of a Womans Pen»
EDITORIALE / 1 / Emilio M. De Tommaso, Delfina Giovannozzi / This Introduction reflects on the intellectual contributions of women...
EDITORIALE / 1 / Emilio M. De Tommaso, Delfina Giovannozzi / This Introduction reflects on the intellectual contributions of women...
SECTION I: Corresponcence
CONTRIBUTI / 1 / Matteo Sperandini Nulla succurri providentia potest. ‘Eloise’s critique of the concept of divine providence in Letter...
CONTRIBUTI / 2 / Salvatore Grandone Elizabeth of Bohemia: Anthropotechnic Variations on Cartesian Dualism This paper offers an anthropotechnic reading...
CONTRIBUTI / 3 / Maria Giulia Sestito Although an increasing number of women have started to write and publish their...
ARTICOLI / 1 / Emilio M. De Tommaso In the early years of the eighteenth century, Jean Le Clerc and...
SECTION II: Anonimity, Paratexts, and Translations
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...
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...
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...
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...
SECTION III: In Full View
CONTRIBUTI / 8 / Susan Lauffer O’Hara Arguing against many critics who posit that Aemilia Lanyer was a devout, pious Protestant, I focus on the biblical Song of Songs derived Bridegroom passages of Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum and the yet...
CONTRIBUTI / 9 / Roberto Bordoli The Enlightenment of emotions: Ethics and politics of communication in “Nonsense of Common-sense” (1737-1738) by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu The «Nonsense of Common-sense» (1737-1738) is the first journal edited in English by a woman. Lady...
ARTICOLI / 2 / Elena Muceni Phenomenology of the ‘accredited’ woman philosopher: Émilie Du Châtelet and Laura Bassi The aim of this study is to provide an overview of the emergence, in the 1730s, of the figure of the ‘accredited’...
CONTRIBUTI / 10 / Debora Sicco The woman, the pen and the sword. A debate between Marie-Armande Jeanne Gacon-Dufour and Sylvain Maréchal This article starts from the debate sparked by Sylvain Maréchal’s Projet d’une loi portant défense d’apprendre à lire...
