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13 giu 2022 · Learn how women were oppressed, discriminated, and marginalized in the 18th century patriarchal society. Explore how some women challenged the status quo and advocated for their rights, such as Mary Wollstonecraft, the feminist philosopher.
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6 dic 2023 · Were there any women-philosophers in the eighteenth century? If so, how did they participate in the Enlightenment? In light of recently rediscovered corpora, this collective volume investigates the topics explored by these women, and how they contributed to the cultural and publishing field.
The Eighteenth-Century Woman. The hallmarks of the eighteenth century—its opulence, charm, wit, intelligence—are embodied in the age's remarkable women. These women held sway in the salons, in the councils of state, in the ballrooms, in the bedrooms; they enchanted (or intimidated) the most powerful of men and presided over an extraordinary ...
5 giorni fa · Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009, ISBN: 9780521774277; 318pp.; Price: £17.99. The history of the Enlightenment can sometimes appear as a male narrative, dominated by canonical male writers, with women appearing only as subjects denied an equality of rationality and ...
Combining intellectual history with literary criticism, Karen O'Brien examines the central importance to the British Enlightenment both of women writers and of women as a subject of enquiry.
- Karen O'Brien
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This chapter examines the centrality of gender to British dominion and British modernity and to the categories of difference that Empire claimed to have ‘discovered’, vindicated, and sustained. Gender is not a synonym for women; neither is it a ‘fact’ of the past (or present) awaiting discovery.
9 gen 2009 · This book illuminates the social and cultural landscape of eighteenth-century Italy by exploring how questions of gender in music, art, literature, science, and medicine shaped perceptions of Italy in the age of the Grand Tour.
