1st Edition
Towards an Equality of the Sexes in Early Modern France
Introduction: thinking equality in the early modern period
Derval Conroy
1. "Poulain de la Barre, a logician of equality: prejudice time and the sex of the mind"
Geneviève Fraisse
2. "Equality, neutrality, differentialism: Descartes, Malebranche, and Poulain de la Barre"
Marie-Frédérique Pellegrin
3. "Gender equality in community: Descartes, Poulain de la Barre, Fontenelle"
Rebecca Wilkin
4. "The rhetoric of equality: Marie de Gournay, linguist and philosopher"
Giovanna Devincenzo
5. "Virtue as a language of equality: gender, moral androgyny and the representation of archduchess Isabella Clara Eugenia in seventeenth-century France"
Derval Conroy
6. "Reading, Acting and Writing Into Being: Ursulines as Jesuitesses in the French Atlantic World"
Heidi Keller-Lapp
7. "The paradoxes of early modern nuns and gender equality: the case of Port-Royal in early modern France"
Carol Baxter
8. "Fashioning Equality and Friendship: Saint-Evremond, Hortense Mancini and Ninon de Lenclos"
Elizabeth C. Goldsmith
9. "Gender Equality and the Role of Women Theatre Professionals in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century France"
Jan Clarke
10. "Equality in the printed book: the case of book privileges in France in the seventeenth century"
Edwige Keller-Rahbé
11. "The destabilization of gender in the European Enlightenment and Qing China"
Siep Stuurman
Biography
Derval Conroy is Associate Professor of French at University College Dublin. Her research interests include women writers, the history of women in political thought, the history of feminisms and the history of equality, areas on which she has widely published. She is author of Ruling Women. Vol 1. Government, Virtue and the Female Prince in Seventeenth-Century France; Vol 2. Configuring the Female Prince in Seventeenth-Century French Drama (2016).
