Format:
168 Seiten
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24 cm
ISBN:
9781781887745
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1781887748
Series Statement:
MHRA new translations volume 14
Content:
"The beginning of the eighteenth century opened Spain to an influx of people, books and ideas and gave the country its own brief age of Enlightenment. At this time of momentous change, the three authors represented in this volume contributed to the Europe-wide debate over the nature of women and their position in society. Benito Jerónimo Feijoo was an admired scholar and a prolific author. One of his most controversial essays was Defence of Women, which argued that women were men's intellectual equals. This sparked a pamphlet war that continued for twenty-five years. Josefa Amar y Borbón was a writer and translator who submitted her own spirited argument, the Defence of the Talents of Women, to a debate on whether women should be admitted to the new Economic Societies. She also demanded in her Discourse on the Education of Women that women should be given the opportunity to study and learn. At the very end of the century, Inés Joyes y Blake published an Apology for Women, arguing that women should develop self-respect, support each other and refuse to be manipulated by insincere lovers and domineering husbands. All three writers wrote with verve and imagination about one of the most important social questions of their day." -- Book cover
Note:
Collects essays of three Spanish writers of 18th-century Spain, all advocating expanded rights and respect for women
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-165) and index
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Introduction -- Benito Jerónimo Feijoo and the Defence of women --Josefa Amar y Borbón, a woman of erudition. Discourse in defence of the talents of women, and their aptitude for govenment and other postitions in which men are employed -- Josefa Amar y Borbón and the question of women's education. Prologue to the discourse on the physical and moral education of women -- Inés Joyes y Blake and the war between the sexes. Apology for women.
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Translated from the Spanish
Language:
English
Keywords:
Feijoo y Montenegro, Benito Jerónimo 1676-1764
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Amar y Borbón, Josefa 1749-1833
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Joyes y Blake, Inés 1731-1806
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Spanien
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Frauenbildung
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Frauenbild
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Frau
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Geschlechterrolle
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Geschichte 1700-1800
