The century of women

Description

"Eighteenth-century Italian playwright Pietro Chiari designated the age he lived in 'The Century of Women' - an age when women gained considerable power through education and admission to various academic positions and professions. Structured as an extended disputation, this book tells the tale of five paradigmatic and ideologically divergent eighteenth-century Italian texts by male and female authors whose leitmotif is woman. These include an academic debate, a scientific tract, an oration, an Enlightenment journal, and a fashion magazine. Analysis focuses on the specific ways in which the exigencies of the 'new science' and the burgeoning Enlightenment project founded on rational civil law, secular moral philosophy, and utilitarian social ethics forced a transformation in the formal controversy about women."--BOOK JACKET.

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Genres

• Sources.

Series Statement

• Toronto Italian studies

Other Editions

• The century of women: representation of women in eighteenth-century Italian public discourseUniversity of Toronto Press2002-01-01
• The Century of WomenHardcoverUniversity of Toronto Press2002-11-09
• Century of WomenUniversity of Toronto Press2016-01-01