No Woman Is an Island
The Female Figure in French Enlightenment Anthropology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20052130 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jenny Mander (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Pages | 97-116 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Women, Gender and Enlightenment (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9780230554801_7 |
| OpenAlex | W2483586949 |
| ISBN | 9780230554801 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
In April 1772 Denis Diderot penned a short but impassioned piece on the subject of women which was published by his close friend Friedrich-Melchior Grimm in his Correspondance Littéraire.1 Conceived as a review of Antoine-Léonard Thomas's Essai sur le caractère, les mœurs et l'esprit des femmes dans les différents siècles which had appeared in print less than a month earlier, Diderot's Sur les femmes quickly became a vehicle for his own musings on the female sex at a time in his life when he saw women as a source of personal difficulties and disappointments.2 Although brief, unsystematic, even chaotic in its exposition, the piece was clearly more than a simple piece of hack work: the philosophe returned to it at least three times in the final years of his life, strategically bolstering parts of its argument with passages which he had originally prepared for the abbé Raynal's Histoire des deux Indes.KeywordsSexual CommerceCommercial SocietyFemale FigurePolitical HistoryFrench SpeakerThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves
Art · Art history · Enlightenment · Exposition (narrative) · Literature · Subject (documents) · Theology · Historical and Literary Analyses · Historical and Literary Studies · History · Philosophy · Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2010 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |