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

Feminism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (331 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Eighteenth-century Spanish women were not idle bystanders during one of Europe's most dynamic eras. As Theresa Ann Smith skillfully demonstrates in this lively and absorbing book, Spanish intellectuals, calling for Spain to modernize its political, social, and economic institutions, brought the question of women's place to the forefront, as did women themselves. In explaining how both discourse and women's actions worked together to define women's roles in the nation, The Emerging Female Citizen not only illustrates the rising visibility of women, but also reveals the complex processes that led to women's relatively swift exit from most public institutions in the early 1800's. As artists, writers, and reformers, Spanish women took up pens, joined academies and economic societies, formed tertulia's-similar to French salons-and became active in the burgeoning public discourse of Enlightenment. In analyzing the meaning of women's presence in diverse centers of Enlightenment, Smith offers a new interpretation of the dynamics among political discourse, social action, and gender ideologies.

Contents:

Developing ideologies of citizenship

The woman question

Admitted equals: art and letters

On equal terms?: membership in the economic society

Enacting citizenship

Negotiating a female public: writers and reformers

Public works: female citizens as mothers and workers

Between reason and passion: citizenship in translation.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9780520932227

0520932226

OCLC:

808600974