Women in the French Enlightenment: From Femme Savante to Mother of the Family

ISBN-13: 9781032110677 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 184 str.

Anna Maria Marchini

Opis

This volume deals with philosophical, scientific, and ideological images of women during the French Enlightenment, examining their emergence in the reflections of the philosophes, in Catholic morality, in biological and medical knowledge, in novels, in periodicals, and in the law.

Spis treści

1. The family structure and the spaces of the woman, 2. Images of the feminine and the philosophes, 3. The problem of women’s education, 4. The centrality of the moral aspects, 5. The new "feminine" between biology and anatomy and the images of the philosophes, 6. Woman and medicine, 7. The feminine destiny in the novel, 8. Periodicals aimed at a female audience, 9. Legal inferiority, Conclusion

O autorze

Anna Maria Marchini obtained a degree and a specialization diploma in philosophy, with honors, from the University of Pavia. An experienced teacher of literary subjects in secondary schools, she works on the problem of women’s emancipation from historical and theoretical perspectives.