First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

I. CAST OFFS 1. How intuition came to women 2 Woman as an object of discourse: an inquiry into categories 3. Values / counter-values 4. Knowledge and power 5. Anti-intellectualism 6. Essays on original sin 7. A knowing subject in process 8. Coherences 9. Divine Plato 10. Eve's awakening / Apollo's ruling: two banquets juxtaposed II. RENAISSANCES 1. The intermittent existence of women doctors 2. A cognitive norm 3. Knowing by dreaming? Object versus objectification 4. Construction of an object or definition of a field? 5. Lady Trotula 6. Being as one is perceived 7. Legal counsel on strike 8. Verum index sui 9. Recreational epiphany 10. Masculine foreclosures of knowledge 11. Epikleroi 12. Three headscarves 13. The jailer's catechism 14. A little learning 15. The judgment of Christine III. AN EPISTEMOLOGY OF HOPE 1. Take an asprin 2. An offensive philosophy, but offensive to whom? 3. Sciences, humanities and philosophy 4. Finalities 5. The alchemy of the world 6. Phallomelancholia or gay science? 7. Duplicities 8. Neutrality 9. Factual violence / ideational violence 10. Visions 11. Saint Scholastica 12. A woman and a man in philosophy 13. The admirable essay 14. Equality, difference or divergence? 15. Corporations.