The emerging female citizen : gender and enlightenment in Spain / Theresa Ann Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Theresa Ann, 1971-

Series:

Studies on the history of society and culture ; 53.

Studies on the history of society and culture ; 53

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Spain--History--18th century.

Women.

Sex role--Spain--History--18th century.

Sex role.

Women--Spain--Intellectual life.

Women--Spain--Social conditions.

Feminism.

History.

Intellectual life.

Spain.

Social conditions.

Feminism--Spain--History--18th century.

Physical Description:

xiii, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006]

Summary:

An important study of women and their roles in society during the 18th-century Spanish Enlightenment.

Contents:

The woman question

Admitted equals: art and letters

On equal terms?: membership in the economic society

Negotiating a female public: writers and reformers

Public works: female citizens as mothers and workers

Between reason and passion: citizenship in translation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-298) and index.

ISBN:

0520245830

OCLC:

60644714

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