The Moral sex : woman's nature in the French Enlightenment

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 Steinbr gge 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.

著者

Steinbrügge, Lieselotte、 Steinbrugge Lieselotte、Selwyn Pamela E.

出版社

Oxford University Press

発売日

1995年1月発売

価格

価格未定（税込・書誌情報提供：openBD）

ISBN

9780195094923

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