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Author D'Amore, Manuela

Title Essays in defence of the female sex : custom, education and authority in seventeenth- century England / by Manuela D' Amore and Michèle Lardy
Published Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012

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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
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
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Subject Middle class women -- England -- History -- 17th century
Women -- Education -- England -- History -- 17th century
Feminism and education -- England -- History -- 17th century
Literature & literary studies.
Prose: non-fiction.
Literature: history & criticism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Feminism and education
Middle class women
Women -- Education
England
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Lardy, Michèle
ISBN 9781443864848
1443864846