is less culpable than Adam for the condition of evil in the world because she is the weaker sex. For those who hold firmly to male-female equality, this may be enough to make them stop reading. Yet to do so would be to miss out on Nogarola’s clever and insightful argumentation. Nogarola’s intention here is less about conceding to women’s inferiority and more about highlighting the logical inconsistency of prevailing views about women. Women, she contends, cannot be both the weaker sex by divine design