unsex'd and proper females
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Stafford, William
- Publish Year
- 2002
- Shelfmark
- B3150 - B
- Thesaurus
- vrouwbeelden, arbeid, seksualiteit, slachtoffers, huwelijken, politiek, 18e eeuw
- Description
- This book examines what sixteen British women, radical and conservative, famous and notorious, wrote about their sex in the 1790s. It offers the most comprehensive survey of what they thought about women as victims, love, sexual desire, marriage, separate spheres, and engagement in work, politics and society, gender, female abilities, sensibility, and genius. Texts studied include 'feminist' and conduct material by Wollstonecraft, Hays, Macaulay, Wakefield, Edgeworth and More: historical writings by Williams: and prose fiction by Robinson, Radcliffe, Inchbald, Fenwick, Smith, West, Hamilton and Burney.