yes…i am back with the program…
we are essentially–and once again–resurrecting a project from the past. i didn’t see that before in these enlightenment writers. they are indeed furthering the work of dePizan, the difference is that the cultural and intellectual climate has “evolved” another four hundred years…but the work is very similar, and [...]

i woke up this morning thinking that i need to search the 19th century. what women were reading the 19th c. Germans? who else, from other parts of Europe, was thinking about history as an autonomous philosophical inquiry? what women–from any era–were trying to answer the question “what is history?” or “what [...]