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Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Female restoration, by a moral and physical vindication of female talents; in opposition to all dogmatical assertions relative to disparity in the sexes ... By a lady
Author: Elite Women in English Political Life C.1754-1790
Author: Elaine ChalusPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019928010X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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The Equality of the Sexes
Author: Desmond M. ClarkePublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191654493
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Desmond M. Clarke presents new translations of three of the first feminist tracts to support explicitly the equality of the sexes. The alleged inferiority of women's nature and the corresponding roles that women were (in)capable of exercising in society were debated in Western culture from the civilization of ancient Greece to the establishment of early Christian churches. There had also been some proponents of women's superiority (in comparison with men) prior to the early modern period. In contrast with both of these claims, the seventeenth century witnessed the first publications that argued for the equality of men and women. Among the most articulate and original defenders of that view were Marie le Jars de Gournay, Anna Maria van Schurman, and François Poulain de la Barre. Gournay published The Equality of Men and Women in Paris in 1622, while one of her Dutch correspondents, Van Schurman, published in Latin her Dissertation in support of women's education in 1641. Poulain wrote a radical Physical and Moral Discourse concerning the Equality of Both Sexes in 1673, which he also published in Paris. These three feminist tracts transformed the language and conceptual framework in which questions about women's equality or otherwise were subsequently discussed. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, anonymous plagiarized editions and pirated translations of Poulain's work appeared in English, as 'vindications' of the rights of women. This edition includes new translations, from French and Latin, of these three key texts, and excerpts from the authors' related writings, together with an extensive introduction to the religious and philosophical context within which they argued against the traditional view of women's natural inferiority to men.
Madam Britannia
Author: Emma MajorPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199699372
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Using Britannia as a central figure, this book explores the neglected relationship between women, church, and nation. Drawing on a wealth of manuscript, printed, and graphic material, Emma Major argues that Britannia became established as an emblem of nation from 1688 and gained in importance over the following century.
Small Change
Author: Harriet GuestPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226310523
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
During the second half of the eighteenth century, the social role of educated women and the nature of domesticity were the focus of widespread debate in Britain. The emergence of an identifiably feminist voice in that debate is the subject of Harriet Guest's new study, which explores how small changes in the meaning of patriotism and the relations between public and private categories permitted educated British women to imagine themselves as political subjects. Small Change considers the celebration of learned women as tokens of national progress in the context of a commercial culture that complicates notions of gender difference. Guest offers a fascinating account of the women of the bluestocking circle, focusing in particular on Elizabeth Carter, hailed as the paradigmatic learned and domestic woman. She discusses the importance of the American war to the changing relation between patriotism and gender in the 1770s and 1780s, and she casts new light on Mary Wollstonecraft's writing of the 1790s, considering it in relation to the anti-feminine discourse of Hannah More, and the utopian feminism of Mary Hays.
These Fissured Isles
Author: Terry BrotherstonePublisher: John Donald Short Run Press
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
In the summer of 1999, a historical conference in Aberdeen, under the title '98 and After, started a discussion of the period when, it has been argued, 'British' identity began to be popularly assumed and to become a matter of middle-class and plebeian pride as the second British empire emerged.
Gender and Fraternal Orders in Europe, 1300-2000
Author: Máire CrossPublisher: Palgrave MacMillan
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
What have medieval nuns, parrot shooting, Freemasonry, and Shetland revelry got in common? This study of monastic orders, guilds, Freemasonry and friendly societies over centuries and across frontiers provides new insights into their contribution to the gendering of public space and the evolution of "separate spheres" in Europe.
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 914
Book Description
Catalogue of Autographs, Etc
Author: Dobell, P. J. & A. E., booksellers, LondonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description
P.J. & A.E. Dobell Book Sale Catalogs
Author: P.J. & A.E. Dobell (Firm)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 750
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