Eve's portrayal in the Bible as a sinner and a temptress seemed
to represent -- and justify -- women's inferior position in society
for much of history. During the Enlightenment, women challenged
these traditional gender roles by joining the public sphere as
writers, intellectuals, philanthropists, artists, and patrons of
the arts. Some sought to reclaim Eve by recasting her as a positive
symbol of women's abilities and intellectual curiosity. In Eve's
Enlightenment, leading scholars in the fields of history, art
history, literature, and psychology discuss how Enlightenment
philosophies compared to women's actual experiences in Spain and
Spanish America during the period.
Relying on newspaper accounts, poetry, polemic, paintings, and
saints' lives, this diverse group of contributors discuss how
evolving legal, social, and medical norms affected Hispanic women
and how art and literature portrayed them. Contributors such as
historians M?nica Bolufer Peruga and Mar?a Victoria L?pez-Cord?n
Cortezo, art historian Janis A. Tomlinson, and literary critic
Rebecca Haidt also examine the contributions these women's
experiences make to a transatlantic understanding of the
Enlightenment. A common theme unites many of the essays: while
Enlightenment reformers demanded rational equality for men and
women, society increasingly emphasized sentiment and passion as
defining characteristics of the female sex, leading to deepening
contradictions. Despite clear gaps between Enlightenment ideals and
women's experiences, however, the contributors agree that the women
of Spain and Spanish America not only took part in the social and
cultural transformations of the time but also exerted their own
power and influence to help guide the Spanish-speaking world toward
modernity.
The first interdisciplinary collection published in English,
Eve's Enlightenment offers a wealth of information for scholars of
eighteenth-century Spanish history, literature, art history, and
women's studies. An introduction by editors Catherine M. Jaffe and
Elizabeth Franklin Lewis provides helpful historical and contextual
information.
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