Women, Gender and Enlightenment

by Taylor, Barbara; Knott, Sarah

• ISBN13: 9780230517813
• ISBN10: 0230517811
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-11-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the controversial, innovative role played by women and gender issues in the age of light.

Author Biography

BARBARA TAYLOR is Reader in History at the University of East London, UK, and author of Eve and the New Jerusalem (1983) and Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination (2003). She was Director of the 'Feminism and Enlightenment' research project (1998-2001).

SARAH KNOTT is Assistant Professor in History at Indiana University, and at work on a history of sensibility in revolutionary America. She was research fellow on the 'Feminism and Enlightenment' project.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

General Introduction

Women, Men, Enlightenment

Sexual Distinctions And Prescriptions

Introduction

Between the Savage and the Civil Dr John Gregory's Natural History of Femininity

Feminists versus Gallants: Sexual Manners and Morals in Enlightenment Britain

""Ambiguous Beings"": Marginality, Melancholy, and the Femme Savante

Gender, Race And The Progress Of Civilization

Introduction

Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved.