Format:
1 online resource (VI, 253 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780807142608
Content:
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, philanthropists, artists, and patrons of the arts. Some sought to reclaim Eve by recasting her as a positive symbol of women's abilities and intellectual curiosity. In Eve's Enlightenment, leading scholars in the fields of history, art history, literature, and psychology discuss how Enlightenment philosophies compared to women's actual experiences in Spain and Spanish America during the period. Relying on newspaper accounts, poetry, polemic, paintings, and saints' lives, this diverse group of contributors discuss how evolving legal, social, and medical norms affected Hispanic women and how art and literature portrayed them. Contributors such as historians Mónica Bolufer Peruga and María Victoria López-Cordón Cortezo, art historian Janis A. Tomlinson, and literary critic Rebecca Haidt also examine the contributions these women's experiences make to a transatlantic understanding of the Enlightenment. A common theme unites many of the essays: while Enlightenment reformers demanded rational equality for men and women, society increasingly emphasized sentiment and passion as defining characteristics of the female sex, leading to deepening contradictions. Despite clear gaps between Enlightenment ideals and women's experiences, however, the contributors agree that the women of Spain and Spanish America not only took part in the social and cultural transformations of the time but also exerted their own power and influence to help guide the Spanish-speaking world toward modernity.The first interdisciplinary collection published in English, Eve's Enlightenment offers a wealth of
Content:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Women and the Republic of Letters -- 1. Women of Letters in Eighteenth-Century Spain Between Tradition and Modernity -- 2. Enlightenment Experience in the Life and Poetry of Sor María Gertrudis de la Cruz Hore -- 3. Reasons for Education New Echoes of the Polemic -- 4. Margarita Hickey's Guide to the Traps of Love -- 5. Illustrating Sainthood The Construction of Eighteenth-Century Spanish American Hagiography -- Part II. Women's Lives Material and Social Practices -- 6. Women in Society in Eighteenth-Century Spain Models of Sociability -- 7. The Wife, the Maid, and the Woman in the Street -- 8. Women Alone in Enlightenment Spain -- 9. An Enlightened Perspective on Hysteria in Eighteenth-Century Mexico -- Part III. Representations of Women Between Rational Equality and Sensibility -- 10. The Enlightenment Origins of Cuba's Iconic Mulata -- 11. Doña Leonora's Library Women's Reading from the Spectator (1711) to El Semanario de Salamanca (1795) -- 12. "Virtue in Distress" in the Spanish Sentimental Novel An Unsustainable Model of Rational Sensibility -- 13. Mothers, Majas, and Marcialidad Faces of Enlightenment in Spain -- Contributors -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780807133897
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Eve's enlightenment Baton Rouge : Louisiana State Univ. Press, 2009 ISBN 9780807133897
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0807133892
Language:
English
Keywords:
Geschichte 1726-1839
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Geschichte 1726-1839
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Spanisches Sprachgebiet
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Aufklärung
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Frau
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Soziale Rolle
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Kulturelle Entwicklung
Author information:
Jaffe, Catherine M. 1958-
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