Through the Reading Glass - Women, Books, and Sex in the French Enlightenment (Hardcover, New)

"Through the Reading Glass explores the practices and protocols that surrounded women's reading in eighteenth-century France. Looking at texts as various as fairy tales, memoirs, historical romances, short stories, love letters, novels, and the pages of the new female periodical press. Suellen Diaconoff shows how a reading culture, one in which books, sex, and acts of reading were richly and evocatively intertwined, was constructed for and by women. Diaconoff proposes that the underlying discourse of virture found in womens's work was both an empowering strategy, intended to create new kinds of responsible and not merely responsive readers, and an integral part of the conviction that domestic reading does not have to be trivial.

General

Imprint:	State University of New York Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	SUNY series in Feminist Criticism and Theory
Release date:	April 2005
First published:	April 2005
Authors:	Suellen Diaconoff
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	276
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-7914-6421-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1500 to 1750 Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > World history > 1500 to 1750 Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Promotions > Women In Power > Books
LSN:	0-7914-6421-0
Barcode:	9780791464212

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