ABSTRACT

This anthology gathers together various texts by and about women, ranging from `conduct' manuals to pamphlets on prostitution, from medical texts to critical definitions of women's writing, from anti-female satires to appeals for female equality. By making this material more widely available, Women in the Eighteenth Century complements the current upsurge in feminist writing on eighteenth-century literary history and offers students the opportunity to make their own rereadings of literary texts and their ideological contexts.

chapter |13 pages

INTRODUCTION

chapter 1|43 pages

CONDUCT

chapter 2|41 pages

SEXUALITY

chapter 3|42 pages

EDUCATION

chapter 4|52 pages

WRITING

chapter 5|52 pages

FEMINISMS