All Men and Both Sexes by Hilda L Smith
An exploration of such universal terms as people, man or human in early modern England, from the Civil War through the Enlightenment. Such language falsely implies inclusion of both men and women when actually it excludes women.“In this important book Hilda Smith explains how women were marginalized long before they were confined to a separate sphereWe see precisely how women disappeared from the political discourse and why it proved so difficult for them to win recognition even among radical reformers. So long as the male experience was equated with citizenship and adulthood, women had only limited and specialized roles to perform in public.”
— Diane Willen, Georgia State University
“This is an important book that shows how falsely universal language was pervasive and enduring. It hints at the damage that this has done to women, and the difficulty of achieving change.”
—Elizabeth Foyster History
“In this important book Hilda Smith explains how women were marginalized long before they were confined to a separate sphere. We see precisely how women disappeared from the political discourse and why it proved so difficult for them to win recognition even among radical reformers. So long as the male experience was equated with citizenship and adulthood, women had only limited and specialized roles to perform in public.”
—Diane Willen, Georgia State University
Hilda L. Smith is Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati. She is the author of Reason’s Disciples: Seventeenth-Century English Feminists (1982) and two edited volumes, Women Writers and the Early Modern British Political Tradition (1998) and Women's Social and Political Thought: An Anthology (2000), coedited with Berenice Carroll.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780271021829 |
| ISBN 10 | 0271021829 |
| Title | All Men and Both Sexes |
| Author | Hilda L Smith |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pennsylvania State University Press |
| Year published | 2003-04-15 |
| Number of pages | 248 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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