English feminists and their opponents in the 1790s unsex'd and proper females
This book examines what 16 radical and conservative, famous and notorious British women wrote about their sex in the 1790s. It offers a comprehensive survey of what they thought about their fellow women with regard to love, sexual desire and marriage; their domestic roles and issues of gender and female abilities including sensibility and genius.
Print Book, English, 2011
Manchester Univ. Press, Manchester [u.a.], 2011
IX, 239 S. 24 cm
9780719082177, 9780719060823, 071908217X, 0719060826
1074916594
1. Unsex'd females and proper women writers2. Our narratives about them3. Female difficulties: women as victims4. Love, marriage and the family5. Separate spheres?6. Female opportunities: fashioning a self7. ConclusionIndex -- .
Originally published: 2002