A cultural history of women : in the age of empire : Vol 5
Edited by Teresa Mangum
- London, Bloomsbury Academic : 2016.
- xii, 286 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
- Vol 6. .
The life cycle: motherhood during the Enlightenment / Kathleen M. Brown -- Bodies and sexuality: sex, gender, and the limits of enlightenment / Susan S. Lanser -- Religion and popular beliefs: visionary women in the Age of Enlightenment / Phyllis Mack -- Medicine and disease : women, practice, and print in the Enlightenment medical marketplace / Lisa Forman Cody -- Public and private : public and private lives in eighteenth-century France / Joan B. Landes -- Work and education: the case of laboring women poets in England, Scotland, and Germany / Susanne Kord -- Power: varieties of women's political power in Enlightenment England / Charlotte Sussman -- Artistic representation: the famous ballads of Anna Gordon, Mrs. Brown / Ruth Perry.
"The Enlightenment was a complex and often contradictory moment for women in Europe and its colonies. The period between 1680 and 1800 saw civil liberties established through political and intellectual revolution. At the same time, contemporary thinkers produced justifications for ongoing gender, class, and racial inequalities which had profound effects on women. An age of burgeoning commercial and imperial expansion, the period witnessed the birth of consumer society and the peak of the Atlantic slave trade. Modern liberal feminism grew up in this environment, as did the abolition movement, early racial science and, incipiently, the science of sexuality."--Provided by publisher.
9781350009813
Women --History --17th century Women --History --18th century Women--Social conditions --18th century--Europe