Louise Dupin's Work on women : selections /

Work on Women is the French Enlightenment's most in-depth feminist analysis of inequality--and its most neglected one. In it, Louise Dupin, also known as Madame Dupin (1706-1799), reveals the sexist bias ("masculine vanity") that informs the knowledge and institutions that shape women...

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Main Author: Dupin, Louise, 1706-1799 (Author)
Other Authors: Hunter, Angela (Editor, Translator), Wilkin, Rebecca May (Editor, Translator)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Series:Oxford new histories of philosophy.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Series editors' foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on selection and translation
  • Reader's orientation
  • Chronology : Timeline of Dupin's life
  • Introduction to the volume
  • Part I. Science. Article 1. Observations on the equality of the sexes and on their difference ; Article 2. On generation ; Article 3. On temperament ; Article 4. On strength ; Article 5. Animal and plant analogies
  • Part II. History and religion. Article 12. Foreword on history ; Article 13. On ancient history ; Article 18. On Turkey and Persia ; Article 20. Other countries ; Article 21. On the history of France ; Article 8. On the discipline of the Church ; Article 10. On the state of the monastic orders since the Council of Trent
  • Part III. Law. Article 27. Foreword on laws ; Article 28. On Salic law, considered as a law ; Article 29. On different forms of Roman marriage, on the property rights that married women enjoyed, and on marriage today ; Article 30. On the power of husbands; on the prerogatives that the law grants
  • and could grant
  • to married women ; Article 32. On adultery and its punishment ; Article 36. On tutorships and testimony ; Chapter 37. On rape
  • Part IV. Education and mores. [Article 22]. Foreword on mores ; Article 23. On education ; Article 39. The effects of education on morals ; Article 40. Further reflections on education ; Article 42. Education in marriage ; Article 45. On the spirit of general conversation ; Article 46. Observations on the spirit of theater
  • Appendices. Appendix A. Work on Women articles and manuscript pieces ; Appendix B. Anicet Sénéchal's inventory and ordering of manuscript
  • Bibliography of selected secondary sources
  • Index