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- catalog abstract ""How was the nature of women redefined and debated during the French Enlightenment? Instead of treating the Enlightenment in the usual manner, as a challenge to orthodox ideas and social conventions, Lieselotte Steinbrugge interprets it as a deviation from a position staked out in the seventeenth century, namely, "the mind has no sex."" "The division of the human being into two unequal sexes was by no means the work of the counter-Enlightenment, argues Steinbrugge. Rather, it occurred with genuinely Enlightenment arguments. The very concept of nature upon which equality was supposed to rest was used to legitimate the notion that women were less capable than men of rational thought and action." "This study shows that the emphasis on women's closeness to nature, and its contrast to enlightened masculine rationality, was associated with the social function of reason and the accompanying moral philosophical definition of sentiment. Because of their supposedly greater emotionality, women seemed predestined to represent pure human compassion. They became the moral sex."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Moralische Geschlecht. English".
- catalog contributor b7472471.
- catalog created "1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
- catalog description ""How was the nature of women redefined and debated during the French Enlightenment? Instead of treating the Enlightenment in the usual manner, as a challenge to orthodox ideas and social conventions, Lieselotte Steinbrugge interprets it as a deviation from a position staked out in the seventeenth century, namely, "the mind has no sex."" "The division of the human being into two unequal sexes was by no means the work of the counter-Enlightenment, argues Steinbrugge. Rather, it occurred with genuinely Enlightenment arguments. The very concept of nature upon which equality was supposed to rest was used to legitimate the notion that women were less capable than men of rational thought and action." "This study shows that the emphasis on women's closeness to nature, and its contrast to enlightened masculine rationality, was associated with the social function of reason and the accompanying moral philosophical definition of sentiment. Because of their supposedly greater emotionality, women seemed predestined to represent pure human compassion. They became the moral sex."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-153) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction -- Reason has no sex -- Dividing the human race: the anthropological definition of woman in the Encyclopedie -- The sensual turning point: Antoine-Leonard Thomas and Pierre Roussel -- The sexualization of female existence -- The historical and moral-philosophical dimensions of the feminine: Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- The female reduced to natural instinct: Choderlos de Laclos -- Female sensibility -- Conclusion.".
- catalog extent "x, 157 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Moral sex.".
- catalog identifier "0195094921 (hbk. : acid-free paper)".
- catalog identifier "019509493X (pbk. : acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Moral sex.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "1995.".
- catalog language "eng ger".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Moral sex.".
- catalog spatial "France".
- catalog subject "305.4/0944 20".
- catalog subject "HQ1210 .S7413 1995".
- catalog subject "Women France Conduct of life History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Women Psychology History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Women and literature France History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Women in literature France History 18th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- Reason has no sex -- Dividing the human race: the anthropological definition of woman in the Encyclopedie -- The sensual turning point: Antoine-Leonard Thomas and Pierre Roussel -- The sexualization of female existence -- The historical and moral-philosophical dimensions of the feminine: Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- The female reduced to natural instinct: Choderlos de Laclos -- Female sensibility -- Conclusion.".
- catalog title "Moralische Geschlecht. English".
- catalog title "The moral sex : woman's nature in the French Enlightenment / Lieselotte Steinbrügge ; translated by Pamela E. Selwyn.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".