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6 giorni fa · In assessing their contribution to Enlightenment discourses of history and progress and to feminist ideas regarding women’s education and female rationality and moral agency, O’Brien examines Macaulay and Wollstonecraft’s engagement with male and female intellectuals, and with each other.
2 giorni fa · The scrutiny of women’s age is hardly new. Seventeenth and eighteenth-century French salon culture was said to be “a woman’s paradise” of elegance, wit, and mild flirtation. However, actual women intellectuals and salonnières (salon hostesses) were frustrated by society’s emphasis on their physical appearance and the restraints on ...
5 giorni fa · Footnote 75 The eighteenth-century Phanariot women of Constantinople were highly educated and they were infused with liberal ideas by their parents. Most of the above female aristocracy spoke French fluently, and they were knowledgeable in European music, being also talented dancers and well informed in fine arts.
2 giorni fa · Funding from the Society for the Study of Labour History allowed me to conduct a wide range of research into eighteenth-century female domestic servants. My aim was to discover how they have been represented both in their time and now, whether this representation has changed, and what might we be able to do to change it.
2 giorni fa · The impression left is that the relationship between gender and politics in 19th-century Britain was a complex and complicated one. Richardson successfully demonstrates that certain women were able to exercise significant influence and act with relative degrees of autonomy.
5 giorni fa · In Women in Business, 1700–1850, Nicola Phillips has produced a dense and absorbing study of (British) women in business. In line with contemporary usage she employs a capacious definition of ‘business’ to consider the range, nature, and discursive representations of women’s economic activities.
1 giorno fa · Eighteenth century Laura Bassi, the first woman to earn a professorship in physics at a university in Europe. Although women excelled in many scientific areas during the eighteenth century, they were discouraged from learning about plant reproduction.
