The Dynamics of Gender in Early Modern France - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Dynamics of Gender in Early Modern France write by Domna C. Stanton. This book was released on 2016-03-23. The Dynamics of Gender in Early Modern France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In its six case studies, The Dynamics of Gender in Early Modern France works out a model for (early modern) gender, which is articulated in the introduction. The book comprises essays on the construction of women: three in texts by male and three by female writers, including Racine, Fénelon, Poulain de la Barre, in the first part; La Guette, La Fayette and Sévigné, in the second. These studies thus also take up different genres: satire, tragedy and treatise; memoir, novella and letter-writing. Since gender is a relational construct, each chapter considers as well specific textual and contextual representations of men. In every instance, Stanton looks for signs of conformity to-and deviations from-normative gender scripts. The Dynamics of Gender adds a new dimension to early modern French literary and cultural studies: it incorporates a dynamic (shifting) theory of gender, and it engages both contemporary critical theory and literary historical readings of primary texts and established concepts in the field. This book emphasizes the central importance of historical context and close reading from a feminist perspective, which it also interrogates as a practice. The Afterword examines some of the meanings of reading-as-a-feminist.
Family, Gender, and Law in Early Modern France
Family, Gender, and Law in Early Modern France - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Family, Gender, and Law in Early Modern France write by Suzanne Desan. This book was released on 2010-11-01. Family, Gender, and Law in Early Modern France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Dynamics of Gender in Early Modern France
The Dynamics of Gender in Early Modern France - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Dynamics of Gender in Early Modern France write by Domna C. Stanton. This book was released on 2016-03-23. The Dynamics of Gender in Early Modern France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In its six case studies, The Dynamics of Gender in Early Modern France works out a model for (early modern) gender, which is articulated in the introduction. The book comprises essays on the construction of women: three in texts by male and three by female writers, including Racine, Fénelon, Poulain de la Barre, in the first part; La Guette, La Fayette and Sévigné, in the second. These studies thus also take up different genres: satire, tragedy and treatise; memoir, novella and letter-writing. Since gender is a relational construct, each chapter considers as well specific textual and contextual representations of men. In every instance, Stanton looks for signs of conformity to-and deviations from-normative gender scripts. The Dynamics of Gender adds a new dimension to early modern French literary and cultural studies: it incorporates a dynamic (shifting) theory of gender, and it engages both contemporary critical theory and literary historical readings of primary texts and established concepts in the field. This book emphasizes the central importance of historical context and close reading from a feminist perspective, which it also interrogates as a practice. The Afterword examines some of the meanings of reading-as-a-feminist.
Going Public
Going Public - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Going Public write by Elizabeth C. Goldsmith. This book was released on 1995. Going Public available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exploring the ways in which French women went public through publication, this book shows how they contributed to the formation of the public sphere in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Going Public also takes the critical literature on the woman writer to a new level by examining the implications of print publicity. The contributors investigate the intersection of gender and publicity in a wide range of printed texts, from memoirs and legal briefs to novels, poems, and fairy tales. In doing so they reveal much about why individual women drawn from the whole spectrum of society embraced the medium of print and about the impact this form of publicity had on their lives.
Men and Women Making Friends in Early Modern France
Men and Women Making Friends in Early Modern France - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Men and Women Making Friends in Early Modern France write by Lewis C. Seifert. This book was released on 2016-03-03. Men and Women Making Friends in Early Modern France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Today the friendships that grab people’s imaginations are those that reach across inequalities of class and race. The friendships that seem to have exerted an analogous level of fascination in early modern France were those that defied the assumption, inherited from Aristotle and patristic sources, that friendships between men and women were impossible. Together, the essays in Men and Women Making Friends in Early Modern France tell the story of the declining intelligibility of classical models of (male) friendship and of the rising prominence of women as potential friends. The revival of Plato’s friendship texts in the sixteenth century challenged Aristotle’s rigid ideal of perfect friendship between men. In the seventeenth century, a new imperative of heterosociality opened a space for the cultivation of cross-gender friendships, while the spiritual friendships of the Catholic Reformation modeled relationships that transcended the gendered dynamics of galanterie. Men and Women Making Friends in Early Modern France argues that the imaginative experimentation in friendships between men and women was a distinctive feature of early modern French culture. The ten essays in this volume address friend-making as a process that is creative of self and responsive to changing social and political circumstances. Contributors reveal how men and women fashioned gendered selves, and also circumvented gender norms through concrete friendship practices. By showing that the benefits and the risks of friendship are magnified when gender roles and relations are unsettled, the essays in this volume highlight the relevance of early modern friend-making to friendship in the contemporary world.
