Women, gender and enlightenment
- ISBN: 9780230517813
- Editorial: Palgrave MacMillan
- Fecha de la edición: 2007
- Lugar de la edición: Basingstoke. Reino Unido
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 769
- Idiomas: Inglés
Did women have an Enlightenment? Historians have long excluded women from the Enlightenment orbit. However, competing images of 'Woman' loomed large in Enlightenment thought, and women themselves - as scientists and salonnieres, bluestockings and governesses, political polemicists and novelists - contributed much to enlightened intellectual culture. This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the controversial, innovative role played by women and gender issues in the age of light.
Eds. Sarah Knott, Barbara Taylor