The concern of all eighteenth-century 'conduct' manuals for women is how women might create themselves as objects of male desire, but in terms which will contain that desire within the publicly sanctioned form of marriage.
An edition of Women in the Eighteenth Century
(1990)
Women in the Eighteenth Century
Constructions of Femininity (World and Word Series)
by Vivien Jones
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Women in the Eighteenth Century: Constructions of Femininity (World and Word)
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Women in the Eighteenth Century: Constructions of Femininity (World and Word Series)
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