This epilogue presents the main insights from Women’s Private
Practices of Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe, demonstrating
the key ways in which privacy factored into women’s knowledge-making
practices. The chapter highlights women’s strategies of publicizing the
private as a knowledge-sharing strategy, the role of the home in knowledgemaking in the early modern period, and the limitations and affordances of
navigating knowledge-production processes in a female body. Moreover,
this contribution emphasizes privacy as a malleable, contingent, and continuous negotiation, not necessarily respected by default, but that enabled
women to balance gendered expectations and knowledge pursuits.