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The Emerging Female Citizen : Gender and Enlightenment in Spain.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies on the History of Society and Culture SeriesPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (331 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520932227
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Emerging Female CitizenLOC classification:
  • HQ1693 .S64 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I. DEVELOPING IDEOLOGIES OF CITIZENSHIP -- 1. The Woman Question -- 2. Admitted Equals: Art and Letters -- 3. On Equal Terms? Membership in the Economic Society -- PART II. ENACTING CITIZENSHIP -- 4. Negotiating a Female Public: Writers and Reformers -- 5. Public Works: Female Citizens as Mothers and Workers -- 6. Between Reason and Passion: Citizenship in Translation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
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 1800s. As artists, writers, and reformers, Spanish women took up pens, joined academies and economic societies, formed tertulias--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.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I. DEVELOPING IDEOLOGIES OF CITIZENSHIP -- 1. The Woman Question -- 2. Admitted Equals: Art and Letters -- 3. On Equal Terms? Membership in the Economic Society -- PART II. ENACTING CITIZENSHIP -- 4. Negotiating a Female Public: Writers and Reformers -- 5. Public Works: Female Citizens as Mothers and Workers -- 6. Between Reason and Passion: Citizenship in Translation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

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 1800s. As artists, writers, and reformers, Spanish women took up pens, joined academies and economic societies, formed tertulias--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.

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