English Feminists and Their Opponents in the 1790s: Unsex'd and Proper FemalesManchester University Press, 2002 - 239 sivua Examining what 16 British women, radical and conservative, famous and notorious, wrote about their sex in the 1790s, this text offers a comprehensive survey of what women thought about love, sexual desire, women as victims, marriage, separate spheres and engagement in work, politics and society, gender, female abilities, sensibility and genius. It investigates how contemporary reviewers divided these writers into unsex'd and proper as well as the issue of whether they attempted to exclude women from certain kinds of writing. Revealing the depth of female complaint, William Stafford contends that women did not passively submit, conservative and radical alike, but sought to extend their sphere of activity, to reform men, challenge gender stereotypes and propose that a woman should be a self for herself and her God, rather than for her husband. Texts studied include material by Wollstonecraft, Hays, Macaulay, Wakefield, Edgeworth and More; historical writings by Williams; and prose fiction by Robinson, Radcliffe, Inchbald, Fenwick, Smith, West, Hamilton and Burne. |
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Tulokset 1 - 3 kokonaismäärästä 75
Sivu 31
... thought that the latter moaned too much : ' we scruple not to adjudge the palm of poetic genius to the delightful muse of Litchfield ' . 121 Would contemporary conservatives have thought that Polwhele had provided a complete list of ...
... thought that the latter moaned too much : ' we scruple not to adjudge the palm of poetic genius to the delightful muse of Litchfield ' . 121 Would contemporary conservatives have thought that Polwhele had provided a complete list of ...
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... thought to be immensely powerful , the individual so helpless in the face of that structure that resistance is difficult to conceive . And if the discourse is thought of as patriarchal , the implications for women are dire ...
... thought to be immensely powerful , the individual so helpless in the face of that structure that resistance is difficult to conceive . And if the discourse is thought of as patriarchal , the implications for women are dire ...
Sivu 62
... thought of as feminine : femi- nine feeling by contrast with masculine reason . Indeed , eighteenth - century commentators can be found saying just that . 108 From this it might be argued that when sensibility was viewed in a positive ...
... thought of as feminine : femi- nine feeling by contrast with masculine reason . Indeed , eighteenth - century commentators can be found saying just that . 108 From this it might be argued that when sensibility was viewed in a positive ...
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Our narratives about them | 35 |
women as victims | 74 |
Love marriage and the family | 94 |
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Advantages of Education Analytical Review Anti-Jacobin Review Appeal argued Britain British Critic Burney Camilla Catharine Macaulay Celestina chapter character Charlotte Smith Christian contrast cultural Desmond discourse domestic Edgeworth eighteenth century Emma Courtney example False Friend father feeling feminine feminism feminist French revolution gender Gossip's Story Hannah Hays's hero heroine Hindoo Rajah History husband Ibid ideal imprisoned Inchbald insists jacobin Julia Lady Letters and Essays Letters from France Letters on Education London Macaulay Graham male Marchmont Maria marriage marry Mary Ann Radcliffe Mary Hays Mary Robinson Mary Wollstonecraft masculine mind Montalbert Monthly Review moral More's mother narrative novel passion patriarchal perhaps political Polwhele Polwhele's proper prose fiction prostitution Radcliffe's radical reason reform Rights of Woman role romantic love sensibility separate spheres sexual social society stoicism Strictures texts theme thought University Press Unsex'd Females Vindication virtue Wakefield Walsingham West West's Williams Williams's women writers Young Philosopher
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