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by Samia I. Spencer. 430 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Samia I. Spencer

Publisher:

   Indiana University Press

Place of Publication:

  Bloomington, IN  

Publication Year:

  1984
Subjects:   Women--France--History--18th Century, Women--France--Social Conditions
Table of contents
FOREWORD Samia I. Spencer ix
PREFACE: PERILOUS VISIBILITIES Germaine Brée xi
Introduction Elizabeth Fox-Genovese 1
1. Women and the Law Adrienne Rogers 33
2. Women and Politics Susan P. Conner 49
3. Women, Democracy, and Revolution in Paris, 1789-1794 Harriet B. Applewhite and Darline Gay Levy 64
4. Women and Education Samia I. Spencer 83
5. Women and Family Cissie Fairchilds 97
6. Women and Work Elizabeth Fox-Genovese 111
7. Women versus Clergy, Women pro Clergy Ruth Graham 128
8. Women as Muse Roseann Runte 143
9. Women and the Theatre Arts Barbara G. Mittman 155
10. Women and Music: Ornament of the Profession? Ursula M. Rempel 170
11. Women in Science Linda Gardiner 181
12. The Novelists and Their Fictions Joan Hinde Stewart 197
13. The Memorialists Susan R. Kinsey 212
14. The Epistolières Judith Curtis 226
15. Women and the Visual Arts Danielle Rice 242
16. Women and the Encyclopédie Sara Ellen Procious Malueg 259
17. Montesquieu and Women Pauline Kra 272
18. Voltaire and Women Gloria M. Russo 285
19. Diderot and Women Blandine L. McLaughlin 296
20. Rousseau's "Antifeminism" Reconsidered Gita May 309
21. The Death of an Ideal: Female Suicides in the Eighteenth-Century French Novel Ruth P. Thomas 321
22. The Problem of Sexual Equality in Sadean Prose Alice M. Laborde 332
23. The Edifying Examples Vera G. Lee 345
24. The View from England Katharine M. Rogers 357
25. The View from Germany Charlotte C. Prather 369
26. The View from Russia Carolyn Hope Wilberger 380
27. The View from Spain: Rococo Finesse and Esprit versus Plebeian Manners Eva M. Kahiluoto Rudat 395
CONCLUSION: THE LEGACY OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: A LOOK AT THE FUTURE Claire G. Moses 407
CONTRIBUTORS 416
INDEX 421
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