The Moral Sex: Woman's Nature in the French Enlightenment [Hardcover]

Lieselotte Steinbr�1/2gge (Author), Pamela E. Selwyn (Translator)

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Publication Date: August 10, 1995 | ISBN-10: 0195094921 | ISBN-13: 978-0195094923

This textbook deals with a question that currently has a great deal of resonance among historians, feminists and literary scholars: how was the nature of woman redefined and debated during the French Enlightenment?

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"...takes us elegantly and intelligently through the now familiar eighteenth-century guerelle des femmes....Her sparkling analyses focus on the question of morality and the place of compassion in a competitive society."--American Historical Review

"This short but dense book requires and deserves careful reading..."--The Historian

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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

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Hardcover: 168 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (August 10, 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0195094921
ISBN-13: 978-0195094923
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.6 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,644,715 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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