All Men and Both Sexes : : Gender, Politics, and the False Universal in England, 1640–1832 /

All Men and Both Sexes : : Gender, Politics, and the False Universal in England, 1640–1832 / / Hilda L. Smith.

All Men and Both Sexes explores the use of such universal terms as "people," "man," or "human" in early modern England, from the civil war through the Enlightenment. Such language falsely implies inclusion of both men and women when actually it excludes women. Recent sc...

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Smith, Hilda L.,
Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2002]
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Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Concept of the False Universal
  • 1 "Only of free Persons": Male Maturation and the False Universal
  • 2 "Citizens of the same City ... Brethren and Sisters": Gender and Early Modern English Guilds
  • 3 ''Acting His Own Part": Gender, the Freeborn Englishman, and the Execution of Charles I
  • 4 "Interests of the Softer Sex": Commercialism, Politics, and Gender in the Eighteenth Century
  • Epilogue: "Masculine Gender ... Taken to Include Females": Gender, Radical Politics, and the Reform Bill of 1832
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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