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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
