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- catalog abstract ""This fascinating book examines what sixteen radical and conservative, famous and notorious British women wrote about the female sex in the 1790s. In doing so it offers the most comprehensive survey of what they thought about their fellow women with regard to love, sexual desire and marriage; their domestic roles and their engagement in the 'public' sphere; and issues of gender and female abilities including sensibility and genius." "Texts studied include 'feminist' and conduct material by Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, Catharine Macaulay, Priscilla Wakefield, Maria Edgeworth and Hannah More; historical writings by Helen Maria Williams, and prose fiction by Mary Robinson, Anne Radcliffe, Elizabeth Inchbald, Eliza Fenwick, Charlotte Smith, Jane West, Elizabeth Hamilton and Frances Burney. How contemporary reviewers divided these writers into 'unsex'd' and 'proper' is investigated, as is the issue of whether they attempted to exclude women from certain kinds of writing. The book reveals the depth of female complaint but contends that women did not passively submit. Conservative and radicals alike sought to extend their sphere of activity, to reform men, challenge gender stereotypes and propose that a woman should be a self for herself and her God rather than for her husband." "This book will be indispensable to academics and students of history, literature, gender and the history of social and political thought."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12666258.
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""This fascinating book examines what sixteen radical and conservative, famous and notorious British women wrote about the female sex in the 1790s. In doing so it offers the most comprehensive survey of what they thought about their fellow women with regard to love, sexual desire and marriage; their domestic roles and their engagement in the 'public' sphere; and issues of gender and female abilities including sensibility and genius." "Texts studied include 'feminist' and conduct material by Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, Catharine Macaulay, Priscilla Wakefield, Maria Edgeworth and Hannah More; historical writings by Helen Maria Williams, and prose fiction by Mary Robinson, Anne Radcliffe, Elizabeth Inchbald, Eliza Fenwick, Charlotte Smith, Jane West, Elizabeth Hamilton and Frances Burney. How contemporary reviewers divided these writers into 'unsex'd' and 'proper' is investigated, as is the issue of whether they attempted to exclude women from certain kinds of writing. The book reveals the depth of female complaint but contends that women did not passively submit. Conservative and radicals alike sought to extend their sphere of activity, to reform men, challenge gender stereotypes and propose that a woman should be a self for herself and her God rather than for her husband." "This book will be indispensable to academics and students of history, literature, gender and the history of social and political thought."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-234) and index.".
- catalog description "Unsex'd females and proper women writers -- Our narratives about them -- Female difficulties: women as victims -- Love, marriage and the family -- Separate spheres? -- Female opportunities: fashioning a self -- Conclusion.".
- catalog extent "ix, 239 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "English feminists and their opponents in the 1790s.".
- catalog identifier "0719060826".
- catalog isFormatOf "English feminists and their opponents in the 1790s.".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press,".
- catalog relation "English feminists and their opponents in the 1790s.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "305.420941 21".
- catalog subject "Feminism Great Britain History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "HQ1596 .S73 2002".
- catalog subject "Sex role Great Britain History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Women's rights Great Britain History 18th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Unsex'd females and proper women writers -- Our narratives about them -- Female difficulties: women as victims -- Love, marriage and the family -- Separate spheres? -- Female opportunities: fashioning a self -- Conclusion.".
- catalog title "English feminists and their opponents in the 1790s : unsex'd and proper females / William Stafford.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".