Feminists Versus Gallants
Manners and Morals in Enlightenment Britain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4370156 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barbara Taylor (0000-0002-2971-2779, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 87 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 125-148 |
| Publication date | 2004-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Representations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0734-6018 • E-ISSN: 1533-855X |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/rep.2004.87.1.125 |
| OpenAlex | W3025909679 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 3 |
Mary Wollstonecraft is usually portrayed as an Enlightenment thinker. But in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) she denounced "modern philosophers" for purveying prejudicial images of women masked in a rhetoric of sexual compliment. This essay explores the relationship between Enlightenment attitudes to women and feminism in Britain, showing the gap that opened up between mainstream enlightened opinion ("modern gallantry") and women's-rights egalitarianismin the 1790s
Age of Enlightenment · Art · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Feminism · Literature · Mainstream · Political science · Rhetoric · Sociology · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2022 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |