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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.
The eighteenth century brought the beginning of the British cultural revolution. With the increasing power of the middle class and an expansion in consumerism, women's roles began to evolve. The economic changes brought by the new middle class provided women with the opportunity to be more directly involved in commerce.
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.
1 dic 2008 · This paper will examine briefly the consensus established in the 1980s regarding the decline of women’s labor status in the early modern period. It will then discuss new research that complicates our understanding of women and gender in the guilds.
- Clare Crowston
- 2008
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 ...
4 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.
