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Ideas in the Mind: Gender and Knowledge in the Seventeenth Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Paula Findlen
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Abstract

“Neither doth our Sex delight or understand Philosophy.” (Margaret Cavendish, 1664)

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Review Essay
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Hypatia , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , Winter 2002 , pp. 183 - 196
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Copyright © 2002 by Hypatia, Inc.

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