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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Lewis, Elizabeth Franklin, 1964-, Jaffe, Catherine Marie, 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2009.
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.