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How an 18th-Century Female Physicist Broke Boundaries and Inspired the Generations Who Followed

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Cristina Roccati graduated from the University of Bologna when few other Italian women earned degrees, and she taught physics for decades

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How an 18th-Century Female Physicist Broke Boundaries and Inspired the Generations Who Followed

Cristina Roccati graduated from the University of Bologna when few other Italian women earned degrees, and she taught physics for decades

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The American Scholar

Transcending the Glass Ceiling - The American Scholar

Bright Circle: Five Remarkable Women in the Age of Transcendentalism by Randall Fuller; Oxford University Press, 416 pp., $27.99 However much we steel ourselves against it, the arrogant and dismissive attitude of 19th-century men toward their female contemporaries can still sting. “What then shall the woman of genius do; what can she do, and be woman still?” asked a writer in the Christian Interior in 1851. “She finds herself in possession of r…

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8 Historical Novels Chronicling Women in the 18th & 19th Century

This month is Women’s History Month and at BookTrib, we are celebrating women’s historical fiction titles set in the eighteenth or nineteenth century. The post 8 Historical Novels Chronicling Women in the 18th & 19th Century first appeared on BookTrib..

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