The Classical Debate: Can Women Do Science? -- The Medieval Woman in Science: contradictions within the church and the university -- The Querelle des Femmes: The Debate about Women -- The Debate about Education and the Inferiority of Women -- The Cartesian Debate -- The Professionalization of Science: the Exclusion of Women -- The Age of the Enlightenment: Science as an Unsuitable Subject for a Lady -- The "New Science" and the Debate about Women -- "Doctoring only for Men": Women and Medicine -- The Feminist Critique of Science.