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Marie Madeleine Jodin 1741-1790 - Actress, Philosophe and Feminist (Hardcover, New edition)
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Marie Madeleine Jodin 1741-1790 - Actress, Philosophe and Feminist (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
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The life story of Marie-Madeleine Jodin opens an exciting new
perspective on the world of 18th-century women, European court
theatres, and, most strikingly, entails the remarkable discovery of
a previously unknown French feminist. In 1790, Jodin, a protegee of
Denis Diderot and a former actress, published a treatise entitled
Vues legislatives pour les femmes (Legislative Views for Women),
which can lay claim to being the first signed, female-authored
feminist manifesto of the French Revolutionary period, and which
reveals Jodin's wide reading in women's history and feminist
writing since ancient times. This new critical and contextual
biography traces the turbulent life of an extraordinary woman,
focusing particularly on her transformation from artisan's
daughter, to tragic actress, to Enlightenment intellectual and
feminist. The authors analyze the confrontations and scandals that
beset her career, and read her feminist treatise-here reproduced,
for the first time in English, in its entirety-as the summation of
a chaotic but passionate existence. Also presented for the first
time in English, fully set in their biographical and historical
context, are the twenty-one letters that constitute Diderot's
correspondence with Jodin. The varied and fascinating documentation
concerning Jodin, which has only recently been discovered, provides
a window on the world of 18th-century women. While memoirs and
biographies of aristocratic women and upwardly mobile salonieres
such as Mme. Geoffrin and Mme. Roland are legion, chronicles of the
lives of individual women lower down the social ladder are far
fewer in number. A contemporary of Mary Wollstonecraft and Olympe
de Gouges, Jodin argued for the social reform of working-class
women, particularly prostitutes, to render them worthy to exercise
the rights of citizenship.
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