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"It ought to be of interest to the generalist and the specialist alike. . . . Jones' anthology is uncommonly informative and intelligently conceived." -- Women's Review of Books - April 1991
'This is both a useful and an enlightening anthology.`
This is both a useful and an enlightening anthology.`
` ... until now there has been little chance for non-specialists to engage with the full breadth of political, medical, educational, and other work about women. Vivien Jones's anthology fills the gap admirably, bringing together well-chosen extracts from a variety of sources.' - Journal of Gender Studies
` ... until now there has been little chance for non-specialists to engage with the full breadth of political, medical, educational, and other work about women. Vivien Joness anthology fills the gap admirably, bringing together well-chosen extracts from a variety of sources. - Journal of Gender Studies
`... until now there has been little chance for non-specialists to engage with the full breadth of political, medical, educational, and other work about women. Vivien Jones's anthology fills the gap admirably, bringing together well-chosen extracts from a variety of sources.' - Journal of Gender Studies
`... until now there has been little chance for non-specialists to engage with the full breadth of political, medical, educational, and other work about women. Vivien Joness anthology fills the gap admirably, bringing together well-chosen extracts from a variety of sources. - Journal of Gender Studies
`John Ayto's The Glutton's Glossary takes the palm...entertaining and recondite information about food and drink terms.'
`John Aytos The Gluttons Glossary takes the palm...entertaining and recondite information about food and drink terms. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
'This is both a useful and an enlightening anthology.`
This is both a useful and an enlightening anthology.`
` ... until now there has been little chance for non-specialists to engage with the full breadth of political, medical, educational, and other work about women. Vivien Jones's anthology fills the gap admirably, bringing together well-chosen extracts from a variety of sources.' - Journal of Gender Studies
` ... until now there has been little chance for non-specialists to engage with the full breadth of political, medical, educational, and other work about women. Vivien Joness anthology fills the gap admirably, bringing together well-chosen extracts from a variety of sources. - Journal of Gender Studies
`... until now there has been little chance for non-specialists to engage with the full breadth of political, medical, educational, and other work about women. Vivien Jones's anthology fills the gap admirably, bringing together well-chosen extracts from a variety of sources.' - Journal of Gender Studies
`... until now there has been little chance for non-specialists to engage with the full breadth of political, medical, educational, and other work about women. Vivien Joness anthology fills the gap admirably, bringing together well-chosen extracts from a variety of sources. - Journal of Gender Studies
`John Ayto's The Glutton's Glossary takes the palm...entertaining and recondite information about food and drink terms.'
`John Aytos The Gluttons Glossary takes the palm...entertaining and recondite information about food and drink terms. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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Complementing the current upsurge in feminist writing on the eighteenth century, and giving students the chance to make their own rereadings of texts, this anthology gathers together a range of materials from conduct manuals to medical texts. This book should be of interest to students and teacherss of English literature, history and women's studies.
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The concern of all eighteenth-century 'conduct' manuals for women is how women might create themselves as objects of male desire, but in terms which will contain that desire within the publicly sanctioned form of marriage. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Mary Wollstonecraft, Education of Daughters, Elizabeth Carter, Mary Hays, French Revolution, Magdalen House, Sir Charles, Aphra Behn, Charlotte Charke, Mary Astell, Miss Wollstonecraft, Teresia Constantia Phillips, Clara Reeve, Eliza Haywood, Elizabeth Montagu, Helen Maria Williams, Monthly Review, Paradise Lost, Project of the Publick Stews, Samuel Johnson New!
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The concern of all eighteenth-century 'conduct' manuals for women is how women might create themselves as objects of male desire, but in terms which will contain that desire within the publicly sanctioned form of marriage. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Mary Wollstonecraft, Education of Daughters, Elizabeth Carter, Mary Hays, French Revolution, Magdalen House, Sir Charles, Aphra Behn, Charlotte Charke, Mary Astell, Miss Wollstonecraft, Teresia Constantia Phillips, Clara Reeve, Eliza Haywood, Elizabeth Montagu, Helen Maria Williams, Monthly Review, Paradise Lost, Project of the Publick Stews, Samuel Johnson New!
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- The Rights of Woman (Phoenix 60p paperbacks) by Mary Wollstonecraft on 7 pages
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Dover Thrift Editions) by Mary Wollstonecraft on 7 pages
- A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft on 7 pages
- Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (Revolution and Romanticism, 1789 - 1834) by Mary Wollstonecraft on 4 pages
- The Female Advocate: A Poem Occasioned by Reading Mr. Duncombe's Feminead (1774) by Mary Scott on page 128, page 167, and Back Matter
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- Literary Culture and Female Authorship in Canada, 1760-2000 (Cross/Cultures 63) by Faye Hammill on 4 pages
- Mighty Lewd Books: The Development of Pornography in Eighteenth-Century England by Julie Peakman in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Understanding the Women of Mozart's Operas (Simpson Book in the Humanities) by Kristi Brown-Montesano in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Law, Sensibility, and the Sublime in Eighteenth-Century Women's Fiction: Speaking of Dread by Susan Chaplin in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- South Sea Maidens: Western Fantasy and Sexual Politics in the South Pacific (Contributions to the Study of World History) by Michael Sturma on page 33, page 78, and page 99
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