Sexual Politics In The Enlightenment

Author : Mary Seidman Trouille
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1997-08-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438422343

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Sexual Politics in the Enlightenment by Mary Seidman Trouille Pdf

Sexual Politics in the Enlightenment constitutes the first book-length feminist study of Rousseau's sexual politics and the reception of his works by women readers. By today's standards, Rousseau's sexual politics appear reactionary, paternalistic, even blatantly misogynist; yet, among his female contemporaries, his works often met with enthusiastic approval and had tremendous impact on their values and behavior. To probe Rousseau's paradoxical appeal to eighteenth-century readers, Mary Trouille examines how seven women authors responded to his writings and sexual politics and traces his influence on their lives and works. The writers include six Frenchwomen (Roland, d'Epinay, Stael, Genlis, Gouges, and an anonymous woman correspondent who called herself Henriette) and the English feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. The book constitutes an important contribution to French literature, women's studies, and eighteenth-century cultural studies. While a great deal has already been written on the individual women whom Trouille treats, what distinguishes this book is that it places multiple female subjects directly opposite Rousseau, and succeeds in showing that the relationship between mentor and student(s) is both multi-layered and fascinatingly complex.

Author : Mary Seidman Trouille
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791434893

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Sexual Politics in the Enlightenment by Mary Seidman Trouille Pdf

Explores the way seven women writers of the eighteenth century responded to Rousseau, and traces his crucial influence on their literary careers.

Author : Robert P. Maccubbin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0521347688

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'Tis Nature's Fault by Robert P. Maccubbin Pdf

This 1988 volume addresses sexual phenomena in eighteenth-century Europe that were outside the legal or sanctified systems of acceptability.

Author : Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt,Paul Gibbard,Karen Green
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317078753

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Political Ideas of Enlightenment Women by Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt,Paul Gibbard,Karen Green Pdf

This edited collection showcases the contribution of women to the development of political ideas during the Enlightenment, and presents an alternative to the male-authored canon of philosophy and political thought. Over the course of the eighteenth century increasing numbers of women went into print, and they exploited both new and traditional forms to convey their political ideas: from plays, poems, and novels to essays, journalism, annotated translations, and household manuals, as well as dedicated political tracts. Recently, considerable scholarly attention has been paid to women’s literary writing and their role in salon society, but their participation in political debates is less well studied. This volume offers new perspectives on some better known authors such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Catharine Macaulay, and Anna Laetitia Barbauld, as well as neglected figures from the British Isles and continental Europe. The collection advances discussion of how best to understand women’s political contributions during the period, the place of salon sociability in the political development of Europe, and the interaction between discourses on slavery and those on women’s rights. It will interest scholars and researchers working in women’s intellectual history and Enlightenment thought and serve as a useful adjunct to courses in political theory, women’s studies, the history of feminism, and European history.

Author : B. Taylor,S. Knott
Publisher : Springer
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230554801

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Women, Gender and Enlightenment by B. Taylor,S. Knott Pdf

Did women have an Enlightenment? 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.

Author : George Sebastian Rousseau,Roy Porter
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Paraphilias
ISBN : 0719019613

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Sexual Underworlds of the Enlightenment by George Sebastian Rousseau,Roy Porter Pdf

De onderkant van Verlichting en tolerantie: (homo)sexualiteit, pornografie e.d. (o.a. over Fanny Hill) in de sociaal-politieke context van de Britse 18e eeuw. - De relevante artikelen zijn afzonderlijk ontsloten.

Author : James A. Steintrager
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231540872

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The Autonomy of Pleasure by James A. Steintrager Pdf

What would happen if pleasure were made the organizing principle for social relations and sexual pleasure ruled over all? Radical French libertines experimented clandestinely with this idea during the Enlightenment. In explicit novels, dialogues, poems, and engravings, they wrenched pleasure free from religion and morality, from politics, aesthetics, anatomy, and finally reason itself, and imagined how such a world would be desirable, legitimate, rapturous—and potentially horrific. Laying out the logic and willful illogic of radical libertinage, this book ties the Enlightenment engagement with sexual license to the expansion of print, empiricism, the revival of skepticism, the fashionable arts and lifestyles of the Ancien Régime, and the rise and decline of absolutism. It examines the consequences of imagining sexual pleasure as sovereign power and a law unto itself across a range of topics, including sodomy, the science of sexual difference, political philosophy, aesthetics, and race. It also analyzes the roots of radical claims for pleasure in earlier licentious satire and their echoes in appeals for sexual liberation in the 1960s and beyond.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Heterosexuality
ISBN : OCLC:609541265

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A Cultural History of Sexuality: In the enlightenment by Anonim Pdf

Author : Wendy Gunther-Canada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 087580280X

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Rebel Writer by Wendy Gunther-Canada Pdf

Blending biography, gender theory, and political analysis, Gunther-Canada charts Mary Wollstonecraft's transformation from female reader to pioneer feminist author. She shows how Wollstonecraft's pathbreaking A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and other works confronted traditional notions of femininity and authority and provided the first systematic argument for women's political rights. Wollstonecraft's writings represent a rebellion against Jean-Jacques Rousseau's portrayal of women as dangerous coquettes and Edmund Burke's vision of women as beautiful and apolitical weaklings. Her revolutionary political theory challenged the separation of public and private spheres by insisting that women could be rational players in the Enlightenment's script of liberty and individualism. Gunther-Canada gives us a Wollstonecraft who forthrightly confronted the politics of gender and genre and incited revolt against the prevailing view of women as creatures born only to "propagate and rot." Rebel Writer shows how Wollstonecraft's political ideology guided her personal life--she bore a child out of wedlock and later married amid scandal--and how her attempts to unite the personal and the political ended in 1797, with her tragic early death in childbed. For more than two hundred years Wollstonecraft's life has served as a cautionary tale of the dangers of women's participation in revolutionary politics. Now Gunther-Canada shows us how Wollstonecraft subverted the patriarchal plot of political theory and framed an alternative vision of women as citizens, making her truly a "rebel writer."

Author : Elena Russo
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801896101

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Styles of Enlightenment by Elena Russo Pdf

Styles of Enlightenment argues that alongside its democratic ideals and its efforts to create a unified public sphere, the Enlightenment also displayed a tendency to erect rigid barriers when it came to matters of style and artistic expression. The French philosophes tackled the issue of the hierarchy of genres with surprising inflexibility, and they looked down on those forms of art that they saw as commercial, popular, and merely entertaining. They were convinced that the standard of taste was too important a matter to be left to the whims of the public and the vagaries of the marketplace: aesthetic judgment ought to belong to a few, enlightened minds who would then pass it on to the masses. Through readings of fictions, essays, memoirs, eulogies, and theatrical works by Fénelon, Bouhours, Marivaux, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, Mercier, Thomas, and others, Styles of Enlightenment traces the stages of a confrontation between the virile philosophe and the effeminate worldly writer, "good" and "bad" taste, high art and frivolous entertainment, state patronage and the privately sponsored marketplace, the academic eulogy and worldly conversation. It teases out the finer points of division on the public battlefields of literature and politics and the new world of contesting sexual economies.

Author : Raewyn W. Connell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745665276

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Gender and Power by Raewyn W. Connell Pdf

This book is an important introductory textbook on sexual politics and an original contribution to the reformulation of social and political theory. In a discussion of, among other issues, psychoanalysis, Marxism and feminist theories, the structure of gender relations, and working class feminism, Connell has produced a major work of synthesis and scholarship which will be of unique value to students and professionals in sociology, politics, women's studies and to anyone interested in the field of sexual politics. Visit www.raewynconnell.net

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317861560

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Sex, Politics and Society by Anonim Pdf

A pioneering study which has become an established classic in its field, Sex, Politics and Society provides a lucid and comprehensive analysis of the transformations of British sexual life from 1800 to the present. These changes are firmly located in the wider context of social change, from industrialization and the experience of Empire through the establishment of the welfare state to the rise of new social movements, such as feminism and gay liberation, and new forms of social conservatism. Now fully revised and updated, and with a new chapter bringing the story right up to date, this new edition considers: the transformation of the sexual world through globalization and the internet the changing impact of the AIDS pandemic over the last thirty years the influence of new currents in social and cultural theory on the study of sexuality the gradual depoliticization and mainstreaming of sexuality within historical study Combining rich empirical detail with innovative theoretical insights, Sex, Politics and Society remains at the cutting edge of the subject and this third edition will inspire and provoke a whole new generation of readers in history, sociology, social policy, and the study of sexuality.

Author : James A. Steintrager
Publisher : Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : France
ISBN : 0231151586

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The Autonomy of Pleasure by James A. Steintrager Pdf

What would happen if pleasure were made the organizing principle for social relations and sexual pleasure ruled over all? Radical French libertines experimented clandestinely with this idea during the Enlightenment. In explicit novels, dialogues, poems, and engravings, they wrenched pleasure free from religion and morality, from politics, aesthetics, anatomy, and finally reason itself, and imagined how such a world would be desirable, legitimate, rapturous--and potentially horrific. Laying out the logic and willful illogic of radical libertinage, this book ties the Enlightenment engagement with sexual license to the expansion of print, empiricism, the revival of skepticism, the fashionable arts and lifestyles of the Ancien Régime, and the rise and decline of absolutism. It examines the consequences of imagining sexual pleasure as sovereign power and a law unto itself across a range of topics, including sodomy, the science of sexual difference, political philosophy, aesthetics, and race. It also analyzes the roots of radical claims for pleasure in earlier licentious satire and their echoes in appeals for sexual liberation in the 1960s and beyond.

Author : Julia Simon
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791426378

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Mass Enlightenment by Julia Simon Pdf

Using the writings of the critical theorists of the Frankfurt School as a framework, this book uncovers the tensions and contradictions associated with the rise of capitalism as manifested in the writings of Rousseau and Diderot.

Author : Yaël Rachel Schlick
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611484281

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Feminism and the Politics of Travel After the Enlightenment by Yaël Rachel Schlick Pdf

Taking the Enlightenment and the feminist tradition to which it gave rise as its historical and philosophical coordinates, Feminism and the Politics of Travel After the Enlightenment explores the coincidence of feminist vindications and travel in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the way travel's utopian dimension and feminism's utopian ideals have intermittently fed off each other in productive ways. Travel's gender politics is analyzed in the works of J.-J. Rousseau, Mary Wollstonecraft, Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis, Germaine de Staël, Frances Burney, Flora Tristan, Suzanne Voilquin, Gustave Flaubert George Sand, Robyn Davidson, and Sara Wheeler.