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The emerging female citizen : gender and enlightenment in Spain / Theresa Ann Smith.

Title
  1. The emerging female citizen : gender and enlightenment in Spain / Theresa Ann Smith.
Published by
  1. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.
Author
  1. Smith, Theresa Ann, 1971-

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Description
  1. xiii, 309 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. "Eighteenth-century Spanish women were not idle bystanders during one of Europe's most dynamic eras. As Theresa Ann Smith demonstrates in this book, Spanish intellectuals, calling for Spain to modernize its political, social, and economic institutions, brought the question of women's place to the forefront, as did women themselves."
  2. "As artists, writers, and reformers, Spanish women took up pens, joined academies and economic societies, formed tertulias - similar to French salons - and became active in the burgeoning public discourse of the Enlightenment. In explaining how women's actions and public discourse worked together to define women's roles in the nation during this period, The Emerging Female Citizen not only illustrates the rising visibility of women, but also reveals the complex processes that led to women's relatively swift exit from most public institutions by the early 1800s.
  3. In her analysis of the meaning of women's presence in diverse centers of the Enlightenment, Smith offers a new interpretation of the dynamic relationships among political discourse, social action, and gender ideologies."--Jacket.
Uniform title
  1. Studies on the history of society and culture 53.
Subject
  1. 1700-1999
  2. Women > Spain > History > 18th century
  3. Sex role > Spain > History > 18th century
  4. Women > Spain > Intellectual life
  5. Women > Spain > Social conditions
  6. Feminism > Spain > History > 18th century
  7. Vrouwen
  8. Burgerij
  9. Femmes > Espagne > Histoire > 18e siècle
  10. Rôle selon le sexe > Espagne > Histoire > 20e siècle
  11. Femmes > Espagne > Vie intellectuelle
  12. Femmes > Espagne > Conditions sociales
  13. Féminisme > Espagne > Histoire > 18e siècle
Genre/Form
  1. History
Contents
  1. Developing ideologies of citizenship -- The woman question -- Admitted equals: art and letters -- On equal terms?: membership in the economic society -- Enacting citizenship -- Negotiating a female public: writers and reformers -- Public works: female citizens as mothers and workers -- Between reason and passion: citizenship in translation.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-298) and index.
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