""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""A Note to the Reader""; ""Introduction: The Century of Women""; ""1 The Debate""; ""Women's Education""; ""The Text""; ""Vallisneri's Prologue""; ""Camposanpiero's Defence of the Education of Women""; ""Volpi � Against the Education of Women""; ""The Judgment""; ""Aretafila Savini De' Rossi's Rebuttal""; ""Conclusion""; ""2 The Very Fibre of Their Being: Antonio Conti's Materialist Argument for Women's Inferiority""; ""Conti's Intellectual Trajectory""; ""The Letter""