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The Emerging Female Citizen: Gender and Enlightenment in Spain Volume 53

The Emerging Female Citizen: Gender and Enlightenment in Spain Volume 53

Smith, Theresa Ann

Hardcover

Series: Studies on the History of Society and Culture, Book 53

AnthropologySpainish & Portuguese HistoryWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0520245830
ISBN13: 9780520245839
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: May 15 2006
Pages: 330
Weight: 1.32
Height: 1.03 Width: 6.34 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Eighteenth-century Spanish women were not idle bystanders during one of Europe's most dynamic eras. As Theresa Ann Smith skillfully demonstrates in this lively and absorbing book, Spanish intellectuals, calling for Spain to modernize its political, social, and economic institutions, brought the question of women's place to the forefront, as did women themselves. In explaining how both discourse and women's actions worked together to define women's roles in the nation, The Emerging Female Citizen not only illustrates the rising visibility of women, but also reveals the complex processes that led to women's relatively swift exit from most public institutions in the early 1800s.

As artists, writers, and reformers, Spanish women took up pens, joined academies and economic societies, formed tertulias--similar to French salons--and became active in the burgeoning public discourse of Enlightenment. In analyzing the meaning of women's presence in diverse centers of Enlightenment, Smith offers a new interpretation of the dynamics among political discourse, social action, and gender ideologies.

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