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A Cultural History of Women in the Age of Enlightenment Ellen Pollak (Michigan State University, USA)

A Cultural History of Women in the Age of Enlightenment By Ellen Pollak (Michigan State University, USA)

A Cultural History of Women in the Age of Enlightenment by Ellen Pollak (Michigan State University, USA)

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A Cultural History of Women in the Age of Enlightenment by Ellen Pollak (Michigan State University, USA)

The Enlightenment was a complex and often contradictory moment for women in Europe and its colonies. The period between 1680 and 1800 saw civil liberties established through political and intellectual revolution. At the same time, contemporary thinkers produced justifications for ongoing gender, class, and racial inequalities which had profound effects on women. An age of burgeoning commercial and imperial expansion, the period witnessed the birth of consumer society and the peak of the Atlantic slave trade. Modern liberal feminism grew up in this environment, as did the abolition movement, early racial science and, incipiently, the science of sexuality. A Cultural History of Women in the Age of Enlightenment examines the ways in which women in differing national and social contexts negotiated the challenging cultural terrain of emergent modernity. The volume presents essays on women's life cycle, bodies and sexuality, religion and popular beliefs, medicine and disease, public and private realms, education and work, power, and artistic representation.

About Ellen Pollak (Michigan State University, USA)

Ellen Pollak is Professor of English at Michigan State University, USA, and is author of The Poetics of Sexual Myth: Gender and Ideology in the Verse of Swift and Pope and Incest and the English Novel, 1684-1814.

Table of Contents

A Cultural History of Women in the Age of Enlightenment, Edited by Ellen Pollak Introduction The Life Cycle: Motherhood during the Enlightenment, Kathleen Brown, University of Pennsylvania, USA Bodies & Sexuality: Sex, Gender, and the Limits of Enlightenment, Susan S. Lanser, Brandeis University, USA Religion & Popular Beliefs: Visionary Women in the Age of Enlightenment, Phyllis Mack, Rutgers University, USA Medicine & Disease: Women, Practice, and Print in the Enlightenment Medical Marketplace, Lisa Forman Cody, Claremont McKenna College, USA Public and Private: Public and Private Lives in Eighteenth-Century France, Joan B. Landes, Penn State University, USA Education & Work: The Case of Laboring Women Poets in England, Scotland, and Germany, Susanne Kord, University College London, UK Power: Varieties of Female Political Power in Enlightenment England, Charlotte Sussman, Duke University, USA Artistic Representation: The Famous Ballads of Anna Gordon, Mrs. Brown, Ruth Perry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

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NPB9781350009806
9781350009806
1350009806
A Cultural History of Women in the Age of Enlightenment by Ellen Pollak (Michigan State University, USA)
Ellen Pollak (Michigan State University, USA)
The Cultural Histories Series
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Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2016-09-22
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