French Women and the Age of Enlightenment

by Spencer, Samia I.

• ISBN13: 9780253207258
• ISBN10: 0253207258
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-07-01
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

French Women And The Age Of Enlightenment presents a stimulating portrait of women at the most crucial and paradoxical moment in French and world history. Not until the present century have French women been as influential and prolific as they were in the Age of the Enlightenment.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Preface Perilous Visibilities	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Notes	p. 25
Women and Political Life	p. 31
Women and the Law	p. 33
Notes	p. 46
Women and Politics	p. 49
Notes	p. 61
Women, Democracy, and Revolution in Paris, 1789-1794	p. 64
Notes	p. 77
Women and Society	p. 81
Notes	p. 94
Women and Family	p. 97
Notes	p. 107
Women and Work	p. 111
Notes	p. 124
Women Versus Clergy, Women Pro Clergy	p. 128
Notes	p. 137
Women and Culture	p. 141
Women as Muse	p. 143
Notes	p. 152
Women and the Theatre Arts	p. 155
Notes	p. 166
Women and Music: Ornament of the Profession?	p. 170
Notes	p. 178
Women in Science	p. 181
Notes	p. 193
Creative Women and Women Artists	p. 195
The Novelists and Their Fictions	p. 197
Notes	p. 209
The Memorialists	p. 212
Notes	p. 224
The Epistolières	p. 226
Notes	p. 239
Women and the Visual Arts	p. 242
Notes	p. 252
the Philosophes: Feminism And/Or Antifeminism?	p. 257
Women and the Encyclopédie	p. 259
Notes	p. 270
Montesquieu and Women	p. 272
Notes	p. 284
Voltaire and Women	p. 285
Notes	p. 295
Diderot and Women	p. 296
Notes	p. 306
Rousseau's "Antifeminism" Reconsidered	p. 309
Notes	p. 316
Portrayal of Women in French Literature	p. 319
The Death of an Ideal: Female Suicides in the Eighteenth- Century French Novel	p. 321
Notes	p. 330
The Problem of Sexual Equality in Sadean Prose	p. 332
Notes	p. 342
The Edifying Examples	p. 345
Notes	p. 353
Portrayal of French Women in Other European Literatures	p. 355
The View from England	p. 357
Notes	p. 365
The View from Germany	p. 369
Notes	p. 378
The View from Russia	p. 380
Notes	p. 393
The View from Spain: Rococo Finesse and Esprit Versus Plebeian Manners	p. 395
Notes	p. 405
The Legacy of the Eighteenth Century: a Look at the Future	p. 407
Notes	p. 415
Contributors	p. 416
Index	p. 421
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