Social History - General & Miscellaneous, Feminism - History, Women's History - 16th & 17th Century, World History - General & Miscellaneous, Sex Role - General & Miscellaneous, Enlightenment, Modern Philosophy - 17th & 18th Century

Women, Gender and Enlightenment

Name: Women, Gender and Enlightenment
Author: Barbara Taylor
ISBN: 9780230517813

by Barbara Taylor (Editor), Sarah Knott

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Overview

Historians long excluded women from the Enlightenment orbit. But modern research shows that "woman" and gender were key categories of Enlightenment thought, and that women themselves--as scientists and salonnieres, bluestockings and governesses, feminists and novelists--contributed much to enlightened intellectual culture. This volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the controversial, innovative role played by women and gender issues in the age of light.

Synopsis

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the controversial, innovative role played by women and gender issues in the age of light.

About the Author, Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor is Reader in History at the University of East London, UK, and author of Eve and the New Jerusalem (1983) and Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination (2003). She was Director of the 'Feminism and Enlightenment' research project (1998-2001).

Sarah Knott is Assistant Professor in History at Indiana University, USA, and at work on a history of sensibility in revolutionary America. She was research fellow on the 'Feminism and Enlightenment' project.

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"Women, Gender, and Enlightenment is one of those rare collections that has it all. Combining searching historiographical essays with scholarly discussions of specific authors, this volume has an exceptionally wide reach, covering questions of sex, gender and politics as they emerged in Enlightenment France, England, Spain, Italy, Scotland and the American Colonies. But thanks to the authoritative introductions to each section and to the two concluding essays that take stock of the entire volume, Women, Gender, and Enlightenment does not feel uneven or miscellaneous but is instead animated by a spirit of collaboration. A marvellous and compelling book." - Claudia L Johnson, author of Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender and Sentimentality in the 1790s

"The most comprehensive, diverse and stimulating account of women and gender in any era: an astonishing collective achievement". - John Brewer, author of The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century