A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1700-1800

ISBN-13: 9781107450028 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 314 str.

Karen Green

Opis

This book explores and examines the political philosophies of enlightenment women across Europe in the eighteenth century.

Recenzje

'Karen Green's bold survey of women writers on politics and society across Europe and England convincingly demonstrates the presence and profound centrality of women of letters to Enlightenment argument. A must-read for those committed to understanding the diversity and authority of women's intellectual history.' Wendy Gunther-Canada, University of Alabama, Birmingham

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Early eighteenth-century debates: from Anne Dacier to Catharine Trotter Cockburn; 2. Mary Delariviere Manley, Mary Wortley Montagu and Eliza Haywood: sexuality and politics in the works of Whig and Tory women; 3. From the marquise de Lambert to Françoise de Graffigny: the ideology of the salons; 4. Enlightenment women in Italy; 5. From Hanover and Leipzig to Russia; 6. Women's moral mission and the Bluestocking circle; 7. Responses to Jean-Jacques Rousseau: from Octavie Belot to Germaine de Staël; 8. Radical English women: from Catharine Macaulay to Helen Maria Williams; 9. Anticipating and experiencing the revolution in France; 10. Women and revolution in Italy, Germany, and Holland; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.