Women in the Eighteenth Century: Constructions of Femininity

ISBN-13: 9780415034890 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 272 str.

Vivien Jones

Opis

This anthology gathers together various texts by and about women, ranging from conduct' manuals to pamphlets on prostitution, from medical texts to critical definitions of women's writing, from anti-female satires to appeals for female equality. By making this material more widely available, Women in the Eighteenth Century complements the current upsurge in feminist writing on eighteenth-century literary history and offers students the opportunity to make their own rereadings of literary texts and their ideological contexts.

Recenzje

` ... until now there has been little chance for non-specialists to engage with the full breadth of political, medical, educational, and other work about women. Vivien Jones's anthology fills the gap admirably, bringing together well-chosen extracts from a variety of sources.' - Journal of Gender Studies

`John Ayto's The Glutton's Glossary takes the palm...entertaining and recondite information about food and drink terms.'

'This is both a useful and an enlightening anthology.`

`... until now there has been little chance for non-specialists to engage with the full breadth of political, medical, educational, and other work about women. Vivien Jones's anthology fills the gap admirably, bringing together well-chosen extracts from a variety of sources.' - Journal of Gender Studies

O autorze

Vivien Jones