The Moral Sex - Woman's Nature in the French Enlightenment (Paperback)

This book deals with a question that currently has a great deal of resonance among historians, feminists, and literary scholars: How was the nature of women redefined and debated during the French Enlightenment? Instead of treating the Enlightenment in the usual manner, as a challenge to orthodox ideas and social conventions, Lieselotte Steinbrugge interprets it as a deviation from a position staked out in the seventeenth century, namely, "the mind has no sex." In breaking with that view, the philosophes shifted the debate to categories like morality and sensitivity and took up economic issues as well. They inadvertently backed women into the corner of domesticity, where middle-class women remained for some time to come.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 1995
First published:	August 1995
Authors:	Lieselotte Steinbrugge (Assistant Professor of Romance Languages)
Translators:	Pamela E. Selwyn
Dimensions:	209 x 140 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	168
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-509493-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism Books > History > European history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
LSN:	0-19-509493-X
Barcode:	9780195094930

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