Eve's Enlightenment : Women's Experience in Spain and Spanish America, 1726-1839 /
"Eve's portrayal in the Bible as a sinner and a temptress seemed to represent - and justify - women's inferior position in society for much of history. During the Enlightenment, women challenged these traditional gender roles by joining the public sphere as writers, intellectuals, phi...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
2009.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Women of letters in eighteenth-century Spain : between tradition and modernity / Mónica Bolufer Peruga
- Enlightenment experience in the life and poetry of Sor María Gertrudis de la Cruz Hore / Frederique Morand
- Reasons for education : new echoes of the polemic / Isabel Morant Deusa
- Margarita Hickey's guide to the traps of love / María A. Salgado
- Illustrating sainthood : the construction of eighteenth-century Spanish American hagiography / Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela
- Women in society in eighteenth-century Spain : models of sociability / María Victoria López-Cordón Cortezo
- The wife, the maid, and the woman in the street / Rebecca Haidt
- Women alone in enlightenment Spain / María Jose de la Pascua Sánchez
- An enlightened perspective on hysteria in eighteenth-century Mexico / Beatriz Quintanilla-Madero
- The enlightenment origins of Cuba's iconic mulata / Lucy D. Harney
- Doña Leonora's library : women's reading from the Spectator (1711) to El Semanario de Salamanca (1795) / Catherine M. Jaffe
- "Virtue in distress" in the Spanish sentimental novel : an unsustainable model of rational sensibility / Ana Rueda
- Mothers, majas, and marcialidad : faces of enlightenment in Spain / Janis A. Tomlinson.