Towards an equality of the sexes in early modern France / edited by Derval Conroy.

"This volume sets out to examine the ways in which an equality between the sexes is constructed, conceptualised, imagined or realized in early modern France, a period and a country which produced some of the earliest theorizations on equality. In so doing, it aims to contribute towards the developme...

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Uniform Title:Routledge studies in Renaissance and early modern worlds of knowledge.
Other Authors: Conroy, Derval (Editor)
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
Series:Routledge studies in Renaissance and early modern worlds of knowledge.
Subjects:
Sex role > France > History > 16th century.
Sex role > France > History > 17th century.
Equality > France > History > 16th century.
Equality > France > History > 17th century.
Women's rights > France > History > 16th century.
Women's rights > France > History > 17th century.
Women intellectuals > France > History > 16th century.
Women intellectuals > France > History > 17th century.
Equality.
Sex role.
Women intellectuals.
Women's rights.
France.
1500-1699
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xii, 240 pages ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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 Destabilisation of Gender in the European Enlightenment and Qing China / Siep Stuurman.