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Women the French Enlightenment: From Femme Savante to Mother of Family
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Women the French Enlightenment: From Femme Savante to Mother of Family
Current price: $180.00
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Women the French Enlightenment: From Femme Savante to Mother of Family
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Alongside the appeals for social and intellectual emancipation advanced by the
typical of the eighteenth-century salons, a new conception pertaining to women’s social role related to the affirmation of the bourgeoisie and of its model of the family took place. Codified in a more complex and organized way within the Rousseauian philosophy, this new conception spread in various cultural debates, gaining a real hegemony: women were meant to be excluded from any "public" space, devoid of cultural aspirations, and only devoted to satisfying the needs of the family.
The book adopts a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and synthetic approach and at the same time highlights the "roots" of some fundamental ways of considering women that are still active in present-day society. It also addresses researchers in the history of philosophy, sociology, literature, and gender studies, and readers with an interest in women’s issues.