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Perspective in texts written by women

What is it about?

This text deals with the language of perspective in a set of texts written by women in the seventeenth-century. Writers combined necessity modal devices and probability modal devices in order to claim authority and credibility in a male-dominating area of knowledge, i.e. medicine.

Why is it important?

The main contribution is to highlight the way in which women, both unlike and similar to men, claim their own territory in scientific matters.

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Francisco Alonso Almeida
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