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Contents Preface 1 The Classical Debate: Can Women Do Science? 2 The Medieval Woman in Science: Contradictions within the Church 3 The Querelle des Femmes: Its Meaning for Science 4 Reformers and Reactionaries: Education and the Inferiority of Women 5 The Cartesian Debate 6 The Professionalization of Science: The Exclusion of Women 7 "Doctoring Only for Men": Women and Medicine 8 The Age of the Enlightenment: Science an Unsuitable Subject for a Lady 9 The "New Science" and the Female Debate 10 Feminism and Science References Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Women scientists History, Women intellectuals History