actress, philosophe and feminist
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Gordon, Felicia
- Publish Year
- 2001
- Shelfmark
- B2392 - B
- Thesaurus
- actrices, filosofie, feminisme, 18e eeuw, Frankrijk, biografie
- Description
- The life story of Marie-Madeleine Jodin opens a new perspective on the world of 18th-century women, European court theatres, and entails the remarkable discovery of a previously unknown French feminist. In 1790, Jodin, a protégée of Denis Diderot and a former actress, published a treatise entitled Vues législatives pour les femmes (Legislative Views for Women), which can lay claim to being the first signed, female-authored feminist manifesto of the French Revolutionary period, and which reveals Jodin's wide reading in women's history and feminist writing since ancient times. .This biography traces the life of a woman, focusing particularly on her transformation from artisan's daughter, to tragic actress, to Enlightenment intellectual and feminist. The authors analyze the confrontations and scandals that beset her career, and read her feminist treatise-here reproduced, for the first time in English, in its entirety-as the summation of a chaotic but passionate existence.