La academia femenina de Margaret Cavendishel anti-académico movimiento constante y ordenado de la materia

Resum

Margaret Cavendish (1623-1676) stood out as a writer and thinker since she signed her works, entering a banned territory for women. Lucas concludes that only the body exists, indivisible from the mind, with its own behavior, contravening the Cartesian dualism. With her thoughts on vitalist materialism, she opposes Cudwoth who classifies matter as passive. From this perspective, I analyze how she addresses two English universities with her own discursive technique in two editions of the same work, 1655 and 1663. In 1668, she sent her request to the European Universities instead, using a more measured tone but foreseeing that she can only be safe in a future when, naturally, her works will be rescued. But also, in that period between 1655 and 1662, she writes and publishes her first collection of plays: Playes, from which we extract, The Female Academy, which can be read as satirical comedy against these patriarchal institutions with a didactic purpose for other women