The Moral Sex: Woman's Nature in the French Enlightenment

by Lieselotte Steinbrugge

2020-03-20 14:40:08

This book deals with a question that currently has a great deal of resonance among historians, feminists, and literary scholars: How was the nature of women redefined and debated during the French Enlightenment? Instead of treating the Enlightenment ... Read more
This book deals with a question that currently has a great deal of resonance among historians, feminists, and literary scholars: How was the nature of women redefined and debated during the French Enlightenment? Instead of treating the Enlightenment in the usual manner, as a challenge to orthodox ideas and social conventions, Lieselotte Steinbrugge interprets it as a deviation from a position staked out in the seventeenth century, namely, "the mind has no sex." In breaking with that view, the philosophes shifted the debate to categories like morality and sensitivity and took up economic issues as well. They inadvertently backed women into the corner of domesticity, where middle-class women remained for some time to come. Less

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File size5.50x8.17x0.45inches
Print pages168
PublisherOxford University Press, USA
Publication date August 10, 1995
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780195094930

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