Women, Gender and Enlightenment

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-7
Between the Savage and the Civil: Dr John Gregory’s Natural History of Femininity....Pages 8-29
Feminists versus Gallants: Manners and Morals in Enlightenment Britain....Pages 30-52
Introduction....Pages 53-69
‘Race’, Women and Progress in the Scottish Enlightenment....Pages 70-74
No Woman Is an Island: The Female Figure in French Enlightenment Anthropology....Pages 75-96
Civilization, Patriotism and Enlightened Histories of Woman....Pages 97-116
Introduction....Pages 117-135
Advice and Enlightenment: Mary Wollstonecraft and Sex Education....Pages 136-139
Tears and the Man....Pages 140-155
Reading Rousseau’s Sexuality....Pages 156-173
Introduction....Pages 174-188
‘To think, to compare, to combine, to methodise’: Girls’ Education in Enlightenment Britain....Pages 189-194
Discourses of Female Education in the Writings of Eighteenth-Century French Women....Pages 195-223
Introduction....Pages 224-242
Women on the Verge of Science: Aristocratic Women and Knowledge in Early Eighteenth-Century Italy....Pages 243-258
‘The noblest commerce of mankind’: Conversation and Community in the Bluestocking Circle....Pages 259-264
Aristocratic Feminism, the Learned Governess, and the Republic of Letters....Pages 265-287
Front Matter....Pages 288-305
‘Women that would plague me with rational conversation’: Aspiring Women and Scottish Whigs, c. 1790–1830....Pages 306-325
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 326-347
Mary Astell and Enlightenment....Pages 349-349
The Deconstruction of Gender: Seventeenth-Century Feminism and Modern Equality....Pages 351-356
‘Neither Male, Nor Female’: Rational Equality in the Early Spanish Enlightenment....Pages 357-370
Introduction....Pages 371-388
The Soul Has No Sex: Feminism and Catholicism in Early-Modern Europe....Pages 389-409
Religion, Feminism, and the Problem of Agency: Reflections on Eighteenth-Century Quakerism....Pages 410-415
Bluestocking Fictions: Devotional Writings, Didactic Literature and the Imperative of Female Improvement....Pages 416-433
‘With Mrs Barbauld it is different’: Dissenting Heritage and the Devotional Taste....Pages 434-459
Mary Hays (1759–1843): An Enlightened Quest....Pages 460-473
Introduction....Pages 474-492
Catharine Macaulay’s Histories of England: A Female Perspective on the History of Liberty....Pages 493-518
Liberty, Equality and God: The Religious Roots of Catherine Macaulay’s Feminism....Pages 519-522
Romantic Patriotism as Feminist Critique of Empire: Helen Maria Williams, Sydney Owenson and Germaine de Staël....Pages 523-537
Introduction....Pages 538-550
Women in Eighteenth-Century British Politics....Pages 551-564
Extending the ‘Right of Election’: Men’s Arguments for Women’s Political Representation in Late Enlightenment Britain....Pages 565-569
The Politics of Intimacy: Marriage and Citizenship in the French Revolution....Pages 570-586
Front Matter....Pages 587-609
Benjamin Rush’s Ferment: Enlightenment Medicine and Female Citizenship in Revolutionary America....Pages 610-629
American Women’s Rights Before Seneca Falls....Pages 630-648
Women and Enlightenment: A Historiographical Conclusion....Pages 349-349
Feminism and Enlightenment Legacies....Pages 649-666
Back Matter....Pages 667-691
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