Women, Gender and EnlightenmentDid women have an Enlightenment? Historians have long excluded women from the Enlightenment orbit. However, competing images of 'Woman' loomed large in Enlightenment thought, and women themselves as scientists and salonnires, bluestockings and governesses, political polemicists and novelists contributed much to enlightened intellectual culture. This path breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture