Women, gender and Enlightenment
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Women, gender and Enlightenment
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Did women have an Enlightenment? This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the controversial, innovative role played by women and gender issues in the age of light.
Table of Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgements List of Contributors General Introduction PART I: WOMEN, MEN, ENLIGHTENMENT SEXUAL DISTINCTIONS AND PRESCRIPTIONS Introduction
- K.O'Brien Between the Savage and the Civil: Dr John Gregory's Natural History of Femininity
- M.C.Moran Feminists versus Gallants: Sexual Manners and Morals in Enlightenment Britain
- B.Taylor "Ambiguous Beings": Marginality, Melancholy, and the Femme Savante
- A.Vila GENDER, RACE AND THE PROGRESS OF CIVILIZATION Introduction
- J.Rendall Race, Women, and Progress in the Late Scottish Enlightenment
- S.Sebastiani No Woman is an Island: the Female Figure in French Enlightenment Anthropology
- J.Mander Civilisation, Patriotism, and Enlightened Histories of Woman
- S.Tomaselli SEX AND SENSIBILITY Introduction
- D.Wahrman Advice and Enlightenment: Mary Wollstonecraft and Sex Education
- V.Jones Tears and the Man
- P.Carter Reading Rousseau's Sexuality
- R.Howells GENDER AND THE REASONING MIND Introduction
- M.B.Peruga L'Ortografe des Dames: Gender and Language in the Old Regime
- D.Goodman "To think, to compare, to combine, to methodise": Girls' Education in Enlightenment Britain
- M.Cohen Discourses of Female Education in the Writings of Eighteenth-Century French Women
- J.Bloch WOMEN INTELLECTUALS IN THE ENLIGHTENED REPUBLIC OF LETTERS Introduction
- C.Hesse Women on the Verge of Science: Aristocratic Women and Knowledge in Early Eighteenth-Century Italy
- P.Findlen 'The noblest commerce of mankind': Conversation and Community in the Bluestocking Circle
- E.Eger Aristocratic Feminism, the Learned Governess, and the Republic of Letters
- C.C.Orr "Women that would plague me with rational conversation": Aspiring Women and Scottish Whigs, c. 1790-1830
- J.Rendall PART II: FEMINISM, ENLIGHTENMENT AND REVOLUTION CHAMPIONING WOMEN: EARLY ENLIGHTENMENT FEMINISMS Introduction
- C.C.Orr Mary Astell and Enlightenment
- R.Perry The Deconstruction of Gender: Seventeenth-century Feminism and Modern Equality
- S.Stuurman "Neither Male nor Female": Rational Equality in the Early Spanish Enlightenment
- M.B.Peruga FEMINISM AND ENLIGHTENED RELIGIOUS DISCOURSES Introduction
- B.Taylor The Soul has No Sex: Feminism and Catholicism in Early Modern Europe
- S.Stuurman Religion, Feminism and the Problem of Agency: Reflections on Eighteenth-Century Quakerism
- P.Mack Bluestocking Fictions: Devotional Writings, Didactic Literature and the Imperative of Female Improvement
- N.Clarke "With Mrs Barbauld it is different": Dissenting Heritage and the Devotional Taste
- D.White Mary Hays (1759-1843): An Enlightened Quest
- G.L.Walker WOMEN, LIBERTY AND THE NATION Introduction
- H.Guest Catharine Macaulay's Histories of England: A Female Perspective on the History of Liberty
- K.O'Brien Liberty, Equality and God: the Religious Roots of Catherine Macaulay's Feminism
- S.Hutton Romantic Patriotism as Feminist Critique of Empire: Helen Maria Williams, Sydney Owenson and Germaine de Stael
- C.Franklin WOMEN AND REVOLUTIONARY CITIZENSHIP: ENLIGHTENMENT LEGACIES? Introduction
- L.Hunt Women in 18th Century British Politics
- A.Clark Extending the "Right of Election": Men's Arguments for Women's Political Representation in Late Enlightenment Britain
- A.Chernock Filles Publiques or Public Women: the Actress as Citizen
- F.Gordon The Politics of Intimacy: Marriage and Citizenship in the French Revolution
- S.Desan Benjamin Rush's Ferment: Enlightenment Medicine and Female Citizenship in Revolutionary America
- S.Knott Women's Rights in the Era before Seneca Falls
- R.Zagarri CONCLUSIONS Women and Enlightenment: A Historiographical Conclusion
- J.Robertson Feminism and Enlightenment Legacies
- K.Soper Enlightenment Biographies Index
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