Description |
1 online resource (xx, 292 pages) |
Contents |
TABLE OF CONTENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; A NOTE ON EDITORIAL POLICY; PART I -- FROM TEXTS TO CONTEXT; CHAPTER I -- "THE ENGLISH GENTLEWOMAN, DRAWNE OUT TO THE FULL BODY" ; CHAPTER II -- HAD GOD INTENDED WOMEN ONELY AS A FINER SORT OF CATTLE HE WOULD NOT HAVE MADE THEM REASONABLE -- PART II -- FROM CONTEXT TO TEXTS; CHAPTER III -- BEYOND MODESTY AND HANDSOME DECORUM -- CHAPTER IV -- TO ASK TOO MUCH IS THE WAY TO BE DENIED ALL -- CHAPTER V -- AT THE ROOTS OF WOMEN'S FOLLY -- CHAPTER VI -- SHARING THE BURTHEN OF VICE WITH THE MEN |
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CHAPTER VII -- ON THE EVE OF ENLIGHTENMENTCONCLUSION; APPENDICES; TEXTUAL SOURCES; APPENDIX A; APPENDIX B; APPENDIX C; APPENDIX D; APPENDIX E; APPENDIX F; BIBLIOGRAPHY; NAME INDEX |
Summary |
Letters, diaries, memoirs, conduct books and early feminist pamphlets: Essays in Defence of the Female Sex: Custom, Education, and Authority in Seventeenth-Century England is a two-part, text-based volume on the pivotal figures and most distinctive, sometimes contradictory, aspects of the querelle des femmes in Stuart England. Background information is given through male and especially female-authored sources, while the close analysis of [Hanna Woolley]'s, Bathsua Makin's, Marry Astell's, Judith Drake's and Eugenia's most renowned tracts sheds light on women's difficult path towards emancipat |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-283) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Middle class women -- England -- History -- 17th century
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Women -- Education -- England -- History -- 17th century
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Feminism and education -- England -- History -- 17th century
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Literature & literary studies.
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Prose: non-fiction.
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Literature: history & criticism.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Feminism and education
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Middle class women
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Women -- Education
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England
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Lardy, Michèle
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ISBN |
9781443864848 |
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1443864846 |
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