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Dialogues and Addresses (Paperback)
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Dialogues and Addresses (Paperback)
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Born Francoise d'Aubigne, a criminal's daughter reduced to street
begging as a child, Madame de Maintenon (1653-1719) made an
improbable rise from impoverished beginnings to the summit of power
as the second, secret wife of Louis XIV. An educational reformer,
Maintenon founded and directed the celebrated academy for
aristocratic women at Saint-Cyr. This volume presents the dialogues
and addresses in which Maintenon explains her controversial
philosophy of education for women.
Denounced by her contemporaries as a political schemer and
religious fanatic, Maintenon has long been criticized as an
opponent of gender equality. The writings in this volume faithfully
reflect Maintenon's respect for social hierarchy and her stoic call
for women to accept the duties of their state in life. But the
writings also echo Maintenon's more feminist concerns: the need to
redefine the virtues in the light of women's experience, the
importance of naming the constraints on women's freedom, and the
urgent need to remedy the scandalous neglect of the education of
women.
In her writings as well as in her own model school at Saint-Cyr,
Maintenon embodies the demand for educational reform as the key to
the empowerment of women at the dawn of modernity.
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