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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| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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| 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