The Labor of the Mind : Intellect and Gender in Enlightenment Cultures /

How did educated and cultivated men in early modern France and Britain perceive and value their own and women's cognitive capacities, and how did women in their circles challenge those perceptions, if only by revaluing the kinds of intelligence attributed to them? What was thought to distinguis...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vopa, Anthony J. La (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]
Colección:Intellectual History of the Modern Age
Temas:
Intellect > Social aspects > France > History > 17th century.
Intellect > Social aspects > France > History > 18th century.
Intellect > Social aspects > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Intellect > Social aspects > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century.
Cultural Studies.
European History.
Gender Studies.
History.
World History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • A Note on Translations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. The Social Aesthetic of Play in Seventeenth-Century France
  • Chapter 2. Poullain de la Barre: Feminism, Radical and Polite
  • Chapter 3. Malebranche and the Bel Esprit
  • Chapter 4. Love, Gallantry, and Friendship
  • Chapter 5. Shaftesbury's Quest for Fraternity
  • Chapter 6. The Labors of David Hume
  • Chapter 7. Genius and the Social: Antoine-Léonard Thomas and Suzanne Curchod Necker
  • Chapter 8. Minds Not Meeting: Denis Diderot and Louise d'Épinay
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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