1st Edition
Women in the French Enlightenment From Femme Savante to Mother of the Family
By Anna Maria Marchini
Copyright 2023
154 Pages
by
Routledge
154 Pages
by
Routledge
154 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume deals with philosophical, scientific, and ideological images of women during the French Enlightenment, examining their emergence in the reflections of the philosophes , in Catholic morality, in biological and medical knowledge, in novels, in periodicals, and in the law.
Alongside the appeals for social and intellectual emancipation advanced by the femmes savantes, typical of the... Read more
1. The Family Structure and the Spaces of the Woman
2. Images of the Feminine and the Philosophes
3. The Problem of Women’s Education
4. The Centrality of the Moral Aspects
5. The New "Feminine" Between Biology and Anatomy and the Images of the Philosophes
6. Woman and Medicine
7. The Feminine Destiny in the Novel
8. Periodicals Aimed at a Female Audience
9. Legal Inferiority
Conclusion
Biography
Anna Maria Marchini obtained a degree and a specialization diploma in philosophy, with honors, from the University of Pavia. An experienced teacher of literary subjects in secondary schools, she works on the problem of women’s emancipation from historical and theoretical perspectives.
