With the advent of a large print market in French, deep historical and social changes in access to knowledge ushered in the potentially subversive figures of the woman reader and woman writer. Often caricatured as précieuses, female intellectuals were key agents in the development and consolidation of the literary marketplace across the 17th and 18th centuries. Construed as objects of thought, women also positioned themselves as thinking subjects who engendered new forms of knowledge, redefining the boundaries and uses of the emergent intellectual disciplines in early modern France. This event is free and open to the public. For further information, contact Mathilde Bombart ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ) or Ana Pairet ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ).