French Women and the Age of Enlightenment / / edited by Samia I. Spencer.

• TeilnehmendeR: Spencer, Samia I., 1943-
• Place / Publishing House: Bloomington : : Indiana University Press,, 1984.; ©1984.
• Year of Publication: 1984
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Table of Contents

Women and the law / Adrienne Rogers -- Women and politics / Susan P. Conner -- Women, democracy, and revolution in Paris, 1789-1794 / Harriet B. Applewhite and Darline Gay Levy -- Women and education / Samia I. Spencer -- Women and family / Cissie Fairchilds -- Women and work / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese -- Women versus clergy, women pro clergy / Ruth Graham -- Women as muse / Roseann Runte -- Women and the theatre arts / Barbara G. Mittman -- Women and music: ornament of the profession? / Ursula M. Rempel -- Women in science / Linda Gardiner -- The novelists and their fictions / Joan Hinde Stewart -- The memorialists / Susan R. Kinsey -- The epistolieres / Judith Curtis -- Women and the visual arts / Danielle Rice -- Women and the encyclopedie / Sara Ellen Procious Malueg -- Montesquieu and women / Pauline Kra -- Voltaire and women / Gloria M. Russo.

Diderot and women / Blandine L. McLaughlin -- Rousseau's "Antifeminism" reconsidered / Gita May -- The death of an ideal: female suicides in the eighteenth-century French novel / Ruth P. Thomas -- The problem of sexual equality in Sadean prose / Alice M. Laborde -- The edifying examples / Vera G. Lee -- The view from England / Katharine M. Rodgers -- The view from Germany / Charlotte C. Prather -- The view from Russia / Carolyn Hope Wilberger -- The view from Spain: Rococo finesse and esprit versus plebeian manners / Eva M. Kahiluoto Rudat.