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Sexual Politics in the Enlightenment

Author : Mary Seidman Trouille
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438422342
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Sexual Politics in the Enlightenment written by Mary Seidman Trouille and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1997-08-28 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

'Tis Nature's Fault

Author : Robert P. Maccubbin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521347686
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book 'Tis Nature's Fault written by Robert P. Maccubbin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1988 volume addresses sexual phenomena in eighteenth-century Europe that were outside the legal or sanctified systems of acceptability.

Sexual Underworlds of the Enlightenment

Author : George Sebastian Rousseau
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719019616
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Sexual Underworlds of the Enlightenment written by George Sebastian Rousseau and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Feminism and the Politics of Travel After the Enlightenment

Author : Yaël Rachel Schlick
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1611484286
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Book Synopsis Feminism and the Politics of Travel After the Enlightenment by : Yaël Rachel Schlick

Download or read book Feminism and the Politics of Travel After the Enlightenment written by Yaël Rachel Schlick and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Sexual Politics in the Enlightenment

Author : Mary Seidman Trouille
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791434895
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (348 download)

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Book Synopsis Sexual Politics in the Enlightenment by : Mary Seidman Trouille

Download or read book Sexual Politics in the Enlightenment written by Mary Seidman Trouille and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the way seven women writers of the eighteenth century responded to Rousseau, and traces his crucial influence on their literary careers.

Styles of Enlightenment

Author : Elena Russo
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 080189610X
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Styles of Enlightenment written by Elena Russo and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-01-19 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Libertine Enlightenment

Author : L. O'Connell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230522815
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Libertine Enlightenment written by L. O'Connell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-11-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex in the Eighteenth-century was not simply a pleasure; it had profound philosophical and political implications. This book explores those implications, and in particular the links between sexual freedom and liberty in a variety of European and British contexts. Discussing prostitutes and politicians, philosophers and charlatans, confidence tricksters and novelists, Libertine Enlightenment presents a fascinating overview of the sexual dimension of enlightened modernity.

Mass Enlightenment

Author : Julia Simon
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791426371
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Mass Enlightenment written by Julia Simon and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Political Ideas of Enlightenment Women

Author : Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317078756
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Political Ideas of Enlightenment Women written by Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Autonomy of Pleasure

Author : James A. Steintrager
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231540876
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Autonomy of Pleasure written by James A. Steintrager and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Seduction

Author : Clement Knox
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1643133845
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Seduction written by Clement Knox and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliantly original history that explores the shifting cultural mores of courtship, told through the lives of remarkable women and men throughout history. If sex has generally been a private matter, seduction has always been of intense public interest. Whether the stuff of front-page tabloid news, the scandal of nineteenth-century American courts, or the stuff of literature across the eras, we are fascinated by stories of seduction and sex. In the first history of its kind, Clement Knox explores seduction in all its historical and cultural incarnations. Moving from the Garden of Eden to the carnivals of eighteenth-century Venice, and from the bawdy world of Georgian London to the saloons and speakeasies of the Jazz Age, this is an exploration of timeless themes of power, desire, and free will. Along the way we meet Mary Wollstonecraft, her daughter Mary Shelley, and her friend Caroline Norton, and reckon with their fight for women’s rights and freedoms. We encounter Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion of the world, who became entangled in America's labyrinthine and racialized seduction laws. We discover how tall tales of predatory vampires, hypnotists, and immigrants were mobilized by Nazis and nativists to help propel them to power. We consider how after seduction seemingly vanished from view during the Sexual Revolution, it exploded back into our lives as The Game became a multi-million bestseller, online dating swept the world, and the ongoing male fascinating with manipulating women was exposed. In a big-thinking cultural history told through an extraordinary range of stories and sources, Knox explores how our ideas about desire and pursuit have developed in step with the modern world. This is a bold, modern charter of seduction, from the birth of the Enlightenment to the explosion of romantic literature and right up to our contemporary moments of reckoning around “incel” culture and #MeToo.

Rebel Writer

Author : Wendy Gunther-Canada
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780875802800
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Rebel Writer written by Wendy Gunther-Canada and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."

Sexual Antipodes

Author : Pamela Cheek
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804780307
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Sexual Antipodes written by Pamela Cheek and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-28 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexual Antipodes is about how Enlightenment print culture built modern national and racial identity out of images of sexual order and disorder in public life. It examines British and French popular journalism, utopian fiction and travel accounts about South Sea encounter, pamphlet literature, and pornography, as well as more traditional literary sources on the eighteenth century, such as the novel and philosophical essays and tales. The title refers to a premise in utopian and exoticist fiction about the southern portion of the globe: sexual order defines the character of the state. The book begins by examining how the idea of sexual order operated as the principle for explaining national differences in eighteenth-century contestation between Britain and France. It then traces how, following British and French encounters with Tahiti, the comparison of different national sexual orders formed the basis for two theories of race: race as essential character and race as degeneration.

A Revolution of the Mind

Author : Jonathan Israel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691152608
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book A Revolution of the Mind written by Jonathan Israel and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-26 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Declaration of Human Rights.

Women, Gender and Enlightenment

Author : B. Taylor
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230554806
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Women, Gender and Enlightenment written by B. Taylor and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-05-27 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Perilous Enlightenment

Author : George Sebastian Rousseau
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719033018
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Perilous Enlightenment written by George Sebastian Rousseau and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sex Crimes

Author : William G. Naphy
Publisher : Dark Histories
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Sex Crimes written by William G. Naphy and published by Dark Histories. This book was released on 2004 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex Crimes looks at the cyclical movement in Europe from implicit sexual tolerance to repression, to sexual liberalization and open tolerance. Cultural historian William Naphy considers the whole gamut of sexual activity which could result in a criminal prosecution and, usually, execution. He considers those types of behavior considered criminal but "natural" (adultery, bigamy, fornication, rape, prostitution), "unnatural" sex (masturbation, incest, child abuse, same-sex relations), and finally "inhuman, unnatural" sex (bestiality, sex with Satan). William Naphy emphasizes the modernity of the past in its attitudes while highlighting those areas where socially constructed attitudes most differ from the present day.