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Feminist interpretations of Mary Astell / edited by Alice Sowaal and Penny A. Weiss.
LIBRA HQ1595.A7 F46 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Re-reading the canon
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Astell, Mary, 1666-1731.
- Astell, Mary.
- Feminist theory.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 229 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- "A collection of essays on the early modern English writer, proto-feminist, and rhetorician Mary Astell. Includes discussions on human nature, equality, rationality, power, freedom, friendship, marriage, and education"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Locations and legacies : reading Mary Astell and re-reading the canon / Penny A. Weiss
- Mary Astell and the virtues / Jacqueline Broad
- Mary Astell's account of feminine self-esteem / Kathleen A. Ahearn
- Mary Astell and the development of vice : pride, courtship, and the woman's human nature question / Alice Sowaal
- Custom, freedom, and equality : Mary Astell on marriage and women's education / Karen Detlefsen
- Further reflections upon marriage : Mary Astell and Sarah Chapone / Susan Paterson Glover
- Mary Astell : some reflections upon trauma / Elizabeth Hedrick Moser
- "From the throne to every private family?" : Mary Astell as analyst of power / Penny A. Weiss
- Mary Astell's feminism : a rhetorical perspective / Christine Mason Sutherland
- Mary Astell on the existence and nature of God / Marcy P. Lascano
- The emerging picture of Mary Astell's views / Alice Sowaal.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780271071244
- 0271071249
- 9780271071251
- 0271071257
- OCLC:
- 929122990
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