Women in the Eighteenth Century: Constructions of Femininity - Brossura

Jones, Vivien

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0415034892 ISBN 13: 9780415034890

Casa editrice: Routledge, 1990

Riassunto

This anthology gathers together various texts by and about women, ranging from `conduct' manuals to pamphlets on prostitution, from medical texts to critical definitions of women's writing, from anti-female satires to appeals for female equality. By making this material more widely available, Women in the Eighteenth Century complements the current upsurge in feminist writing on eighteenth-century literary history and offers students the opportunity to make their own rereadings of literary texts and their ideological contexts.

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In recent years, much exciting work has been done by feminists working on the eighteenth century. This anthology will give students access to the kinds of documents by and about women which have been a major source for their analyses. The texts collected here demonstrate the construction in the period of a powerful, and still current, ideology of femininity and explore its effects on ideas of sexuality, women's education and women's writing - as well as illustrating the oppositional voices of early feminists. The texts included range widely: from 'conduct manuals' instructing women in proper behaviour, to pamphlets on prostitution; from medical texts defining female sexuality, to critical definitions of female writing; from anti-female satires, to French Revolution-inspired appeals for female equality.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0415034892
• ISBN 13: 9780415034890
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 272