Women s Private Practices of Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe 1st Edition by Natacha Klein Käfer, Natália da Silva Perez ISBN 9783031447303 3031447301

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ISBN 10:   3031447301

ISBN 13: 9783031447303

Author: Natacha Klein Käfer, Natália da Silva Perez

 This open access book explores knowledge practices by five women from different European contexts. Contributors document, analyze, and discuss how women employed practices of privacy to pursue knowledge that did not necessarily conform with the curriculum prescribed for them. The practices of Jane Lumley in England, Camila Herculiana in Padua, Victorine de Chastenay in Paris, as well as Elisabeth Sophie Marie and Philippine Charlotte in Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, will help us to exemplify the delicate balance between audacity and obedience that women had to employ to be able to explore science, literature, philosophy, theology, and other types of learned activities. Cases range from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, presenting continuities and discontinuities across temporal and geographical lines of the strategies that women used to protect their knowledge production and retain intact their reputations as good Christian daughters, wives, and mothers. Taken together, the essaysshow how having access to privacy―the ability to regulate access to themselves while studying and learning―was a crucial condition for the success of the knowledge activities these women pursued.

Table of contents: 

1. Situating Women’s Private Practices of Knowledge Production in the Early Modern Context

2. Lady Jane Lumley’s Private Education and Its Political Resonances

3. Camilla Herculiana (Erculiani): Private Practices of Knowledge Production

4. From Behind the Folding Screen to the Collège de France: Victorine de Chastenay’s Privacy Dynamics for Knowledge in the Making

5. “Fait à mes heures de loisir”: Women’s Private Libraries as Spaces of Learning and Knowledge Production

6. Contingent Privacies: Knowledge Production and Gender Expectations from 1500 to 1800

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