In the 17th century the French mathematician Pierre ... There was no progress until a young French woman reinvigorated the pursuit of Fermat's lost proof. Sophie Germain was born on April 1 ...
It will now accept, for example, professeure for a woman teacher instead ... arguing that French as a language was broadly feminised until the 17th Century.
Throughout accounts of 17th-century witch trials in Europe and North ... historical witch hunts overwhelmingly targeted women—particularly women who led an independent lifestyle (such as widows ...
Longino, lauded for her work on Orientalism and gender in French literature, died Nov. 21 at Transitions Hospice in Raleigh ...