The century of women
representation of women in eighteenth-century Italian public discourse
by Rebecca Messbarger
"Eighteenth-century Italian playwright Pietro Chiari designated the age he lived in 'The Century of Women' - an age when women gained considerable power through education and admission to various academic positions and professions. Structured as an extended disputation, this book tells the tale of five paradigmatic and ideologically divergent eighteenth-century Italian texts by male and female authors whose leitmotif is woman.
These include an academic debate, a scientific tract, an oration, an Enlightenment journal, and a fashion magazine. Analysis focuses on the specific ways in which the exigencies of the 'new science' and the burgeoning Enlightenment project founded on rational civil law, secular moral philosophy, and utilitarian social ethics forced a transformation in the formal controversy about women."--BOOK JACKET.
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Education, History, Sources, Women, Discourse analysis, Women, italy, CivilizationPlaces
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Century of Women: Representations of Women in Eighteenth-Century Italian Public Discourse
2016, University of Toronto Press
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The century of women: representation of women in eighteenth-century Italian public discourse
2002, University of Toronto Press
in English
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The Century of Women: Representations of Women in Eighteenth-Century Italian Public Discourse (Toronto Italian Studies)
November 9, 2002, University of Toronto Press
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in English
080203652X 9780802036520
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