Women, Gender and Enlightenment

Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 Introduction
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   Chapter 2 Between the Savage and the Civil: Dr John Gregory’s Natural History of Femininity
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   Chapter 3 Feminists versus Gallants: Manners and Morals in Enlightenment Britain
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   Chapter 4 ‘Ambiguous Beings’: Marginality, Melancholy, and the Femme Savante
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   Chapter 5 Introduction
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   Chapter 6 ‘Race’, Women and Progress in the Scottish Enlightenment
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   Chapter 7 No Woman Is an Island: The Female Figure in French Enlightenment Anthropology
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   Chapter 8 Civilization, Patriotism and Enlightened Histories of Woman
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    Chapter 9 Introduction
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    Chapter 10 Advice and Enlightenment: Mary Wollstonecraft and Sex Education
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    Chapter 11 Tears and the Man
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    Chapter 12 Reading Rousseau’s Sexuality
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    Chapter 13 Introduction
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    Chapter 14 L’ortografe des dames: Gender and Language in the Old Regime
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    Chapter 15 ‘To think, to compare, to combine, to methodise’: Girls’ Education in Enlightenment Britain
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    Chapter 16 Discourses of Female Education in the Writings of Eighteenth-Century French Women
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    Chapter 17 Introduction
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    Chapter 18 Women on the Verge of Science: Aristocratic Women and Knowledge in Early Eighteenth-Century Italy
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    Chapter 19 ‘The noblest commerce of mankind’: Conversation and Community in the Bluestocking Circle
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    Chapter 20 Aristocratic Feminism, the Learned Governess, and the Republic of Letters
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    Chapter 21 ‘Women that would plague me with rational conversation’: Aspiring Women and Scottish Whigs, c. 1790–1830
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    Chapter 22 Introduction
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    Chapter 23 Mary Astell and Enlightenment
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    Chapter 24 The Deconstruction of Gender: Seventeenth-Century Feminism and Modern Equality
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    Chapter 25 ‘Neither Male, Nor Female’: Rational Equality in the Early Spanish Enlightenment
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    Chapter 26 Introduction
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    Chapter 27 The Soul Has No Sex: Feminism and Catholicism in Early-Modern Europe
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    Chapter 28 Religion, Feminism, and the Problem of Agency: Reflections on Eighteenth-Century Quakerism
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    Chapter 29 Bluestocking Fictions: Devotional Writings, Didactic Literature and the Imperative of Female Improvement
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    Chapter 30 ‘With Mrs Barbauld it is different’: Dissenting Heritage and the Devotional Taste
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    Chapter 31 Mary Hays (1759–1843): An Enlightened Quest
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    Chapter 32 Introduction
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    Chapter 33 Catharine Macaulay’s Histories of England: A Female Perspective on the History of Liberty
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    Chapter 34 Liberty, Equality and God: The Religious Roots of Catherine Macaulay’s Feminism
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    Chapter 35 Romantic Patriotism as Feminist Critique of Empire: Helen Maria Williams, Sydney Owenson and Germaine de Staël
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    Chapter 36 Introduction
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    Chapter 37 Women in Eighteenth-Century British Politics
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    Chapter 38 Extending the ‘Right of Election’: Men’s Arguments for Women’s Political Representation in Late Enlightenment Britain
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    Chapter 39 Filles publiques or Public Women: The Actress as Citizen: Marie Madeleine Jodin (1741–90) and Mary Darby Robinson (1758–1800)
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    Chapter 40 The Politics of Intimacy: Marriage and Citizenship in the French Revolution
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    Chapter 41 Benjamin Rush’s Ferment: Enlightenment Medicine and Female Citizenship in Revolutionary America
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    Chapter 42 American Women’s Rights Before Seneca Falls
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    Chapter 43 Women and Enlightenment: A Historiographical Conclusion
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    Chapter 44 Feminism and Enlightenment Legacies