Illusive materialisms : the pleasures of femininity in eighteenth-century France / Natania Meeker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meeker, Natania, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Femininity--France--18th century.

Femininity.

Pleasure.

Sensuality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 259 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2026.

Summary:

Examining a strain of feminine speculative thought that resonates with contemporary efforts to recenter pleasure.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction. The Materialist Pleasures of Femininity

1 Feminine Fictions of Radical Materialism: Diderot, La Mettrie, Helvétius

2 Volupté in a Ruined World: Puisieux's Libertine Images

3 Illusions Without Error: Du Châtelet Loves Enough for Two

4 "I am, I live, I exist": Graffigny's Pleasure of Being

Postscriptum. Olympe de Gouges chez Ninon

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource.

Other Format:

Print version: Meeker, Natania Illusive Materialisms

ISBN:

9781531512583

9781531512590

1-5315-1259-3

OCLC:

1559218529