The Routledge guidebook to Wollstonecraft's a vindication of the rights of woman [[electronic resource] /] / Sandrine Bergès |
Autore | Berges Sandrine |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (209 pages) |
Disciplina |
192
323.3/40941 323.340941 |
Collana | The Routledge Guides to the Great Books |
Soggetto topico |
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797. Vindication of the rights of woman
Women -- Education -- Great Britain Women's rights -- Great Britain Women's rights - Education - Great Britain Women - Great Britain Gender & Ethnic Studies Social Sciences Gender Studies & Sexuality |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-203-09418-2
1-299-15681-9 1-136-20528-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Series editor's preface; Author preface; 1 The first of a new genus; The life of Mary Wollstonecraft; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; From the Enlightenment to the twenty-first century: a feminist journey?; Plan of the book; 2 The rights of woman and national education; Reading the first pages; A Vindication as a treatise on education; Republicanism and the revolution in A Vindication; Reason and the Enlightenment; Conclusion; 3 Brutes or rational beings?; Un-gendered reason; Either friends or slaves; The superiority of men; Conclusion
4 Relative virtues and meretricious slaves; Why there cannot be any female (or male) virtues; The historical plausibility of looking for Aristotelian arguments in Wollstonecraft's works; Some straightforward Aristotelian aspects of Wollstonecraft's theory: habituation and the perfectibility of human nature; Wollstonecraft on the emotions; Virtue as a mean: chastity; Virtue and wisdom: bashfulness versus modesty; Chastity and modesty in the twenty-first century: an anachronism?; Conclusion; 5 Abject slaves and capricious tyrants; Women without virtue; Sensibility: a sickness of the times Queens in cages; Voluntary submission 1: Condorcet; Voluntary submission 2: Mill; Wollstonecraft and Sen's adaptive preferences; Conclusion; 6 Angels and beasts; A cross between a rant and a literature review; Rousseau and Madame de Stael; The women - the conservatives and the republicans; Today's feminists and Wollstonecraft; 7 Taste and unclouded reason; Virtue and etiquette; A question of manners; A fondness for Redcoats; A good reputation; Taste: moral and aesthetic virtues; 8 Rational fellowship or slavish obedience? Love, marriage and family; Woman in society; Love and marriage Independence; A woman's place; Good parenting; Bad parenting; 9 Concluding reflections; A conflicted ending; School of morality; Peculiar duty of their sex; As all readers are not sagacious ...; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463018003321 |
Berges Sandrine | ||
London, : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
The Routledge guidebook to Wollstonecraft's a vindication of the rights of woman [[electronic resource] /] / Sandrine Bergès |
Autore | Berges Sandrine |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (209 pages) |
Disciplina |
192
323.3/40941 323.340941 |
Collana | The Routledge Guides to the Great Books |
Soggetto topico |
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797. Vindication of the rights of woman
Women -- Education -- Great Britain Women's rights -- Great Britain Women's rights - Education - Great Britain Women - Great Britain Gender & Ethnic Studies Social Sciences Gender Studies & Sexuality |
ISBN |
0-203-09418-2
1-299-15681-9 1-136-20528-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Series editor's preface; Author preface; 1 The first of a new genus; The life of Mary Wollstonecraft; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; From the Enlightenment to the twenty-first century: a feminist journey?; Plan of the book; 2 The rights of woman and national education; Reading the first pages; A Vindication as a treatise on education; Republicanism and the revolution in A Vindication; Reason and the Enlightenment; Conclusion; 3 Brutes or rational beings?; Un-gendered reason; Either friends or slaves; The superiority of men; Conclusion
4 Relative virtues and meretricious slaves; Why there cannot be any female (or male) virtues; The historical plausibility of looking for Aristotelian arguments in Wollstonecraft's works; Some straightforward Aristotelian aspects of Wollstonecraft's theory: habituation and the perfectibility of human nature; Wollstonecraft on the emotions; Virtue as a mean: chastity; Virtue and wisdom: bashfulness versus modesty; Chastity and modesty in the twenty-first century: an anachronism?; Conclusion; 5 Abject slaves and capricious tyrants; Women without virtue; Sensibility: a sickness of the times Queens in cages; Voluntary submission 1: Condorcet; Voluntary submission 2: Mill; Wollstonecraft and Sen's adaptive preferences; Conclusion; 6 Angels and beasts; A cross between a rant and a literature review; Rousseau and Madame de Stael; The women - the conservatives and the republicans; Today's feminists and Wollstonecraft; 7 Taste and unclouded reason; Virtue and etiquette; A question of manners; A fondness for Redcoats; A good reputation; Taste: moral and aesthetic virtues; 8 Rational fellowship or slavish obedience? Love, marriage and family; Woman in society; Love and marriage Independence; A woman's place; Good parenting; Bad parenting; 9 Concluding reflections; A conflicted ending; School of morality; Peculiar duty of their sex; As all readers are not sagacious ...; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786273003321 |
Berges Sandrine | ||
London, : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
The Routledge guidebook to Wollstonecraft's a vindication of the rights of woman [[electronic resource] /] / Sandrine Bergès |
Autore | Berges Sandrine |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (209 pages) |
Disciplina |
192
323.3/40941 323.340941 |
Collana | The Routledge Guides to the Great Books |
Soggetto topico |
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797. Vindication of the rights of woman
Women -- Education -- Great Britain Women's rights -- Great Britain Women's rights - Education - Great Britain Women - Great Britain Gender & Ethnic Studies Social Sciences Gender Studies & Sexuality |
ISBN |
0-203-09418-2
1-299-15681-9 1-136-20528-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Series editor's preface; Author preface; 1 The first of a new genus; The life of Mary Wollstonecraft; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; From the Enlightenment to the twenty-first century: a feminist journey?; Plan of the book; 2 The rights of woman and national education; Reading the first pages; A Vindication as a treatise on education; Republicanism and the revolution in A Vindication; Reason and the Enlightenment; Conclusion; 3 Brutes or rational beings?; Un-gendered reason; Either friends or slaves; The superiority of men; Conclusion
4 Relative virtues and meretricious slaves; Why there cannot be any female (or male) virtues; The historical plausibility of looking for Aristotelian arguments in Wollstonecraft's works; Some straightforward Aristotelian aspects of Wollstonecraft's theory: habituation and the perfectibility of human nature; Wollstonecraft on the emotions; Virtue as a mean: chastity; Virtue and wisdom: bashfulness versus modesty; Chastity and modesty in the twenty-first century: an anachronism?; Conclusion; 5 Abject slaves and capricious tyrants; Women without virtue; Sensibility: a sickness of the times Queens in cages; Voluntary submission 1: Condorcet; Voluntary submission 2: Mill; Wollstonecraft and Sen's adaptive preferences; Conclusion; 6 Angels and beasts; A cross between a rant and a literature review; Rousseau and Madame de Stael; The women - the conservatives and the republicans; Today's feminists and Wollstonecraft; 7 Taste and unclouded reason; Virtue and etiquette; A question of manners; A fondness for Redcoats; A good reputation; Taste: moral and aesthetic virtues; 8 Rational fellowship or slavish obedience? Love, marriage and family; Woman in society; Love and marriage Independence; A woman's place; Good parenting; Bad parenting; 9 Concluding reflections; A conflicted ending; School of morality; Peculiar duty of their sex; As all readers are not sagacious ...; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910824376903321 |
Berges Sandrine | ||
London, : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|