Pandora's Breeches: Women, Science & Power in the Enlightenment by Patricia Fara

Pandora's Breeches: Women, Science & Power in the Enlightenment

Patricia Fara

288 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history science challenging informative inspiring medium-paced
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“Had God intended Women merely as a finer sort of cattle, he would not have made them reasonable.” Writing in 1673, Bathsua Makin was one of the first women to insist that girls should receive a scientific education. Despite the efforts of Makin a...

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