Women in the Eighteenth Century: Constructions of Femininity

Women in the Eighteenth Century: Constructions of Femininity
ISBN-10
1134966318
ISBN-13
9781134966318
Category
History
Pages
272
Language
English
Published
2006-10-19
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Vivien Jones

Description

This anthology gathers together various texts by and about women, ranging from `conduct' manuals to pamphlets on prostitution, from medical texts to critical definitions of women's writing, from anti-female satires to appeals for female equality. By making this material more widely available, Women in the Eighteenth Century complements the current upsurge in feminist writing on eighteenth-century literary history and offers students the opportunity to make their own rereadings of literary texts and their ideological contexts.

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