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The Moral Sex: Woman's Nature in the French Enlightenment

The Moral Sex: Woman's Nature in the French Enlightenment

Selwyn, Pamela E.

Paperback

French HistoryGeneral World HistoryWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 019509493X
ISBN13: 9780195094930
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Aug 10 1995
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.45 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.17
Language: English
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 Steinbrügge 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.

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