Women, Gender, and Enlightenment is a collection with a lot of articles with diferent views on women and the Enlightenment.. Combining searching historiographical essays with scholarly discussions of specific authors, this volume has an exceptionally wide reach, covering questions of sex, gender and politics as they emerged in Enlightenment France, England, Spain, Italy, Scotland and the American Colonies. Each section gets an introduction and the two concluding essays that take stock of the entire volume. Sections in the book are written on sexual distinctions and discriptions: gender, race and the progress of civilizaton, sex and sensibility: gender and the reasoning mind: women intellectuals: early enlightenment feminisms: religious discourses: liberty and the nations: revolutionary citizenship.