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Hace 1 día · Work in the 18th century has long been neglected by historians, who have focused instead on other aspects of economic life: notably consumption, but also on the legal structures of inheritance and marriage which shaped working lives over the life cycle.
Hace 4 días · She critiques what she sees as the orthodoxy of women's history: that during the eighteenth century women were forced into a passive, feminine role in a secluded domestic private sphere, helpless and deprived of any public place.
Hace 2 días · In their studies of eighteenth-century amateur art, scholars disagree over the extent to which men participated in flower painting, but they do agree that this was a field dominated by women. The difficulty is those who observe that men did paint botanical and/or decorative paintings of flowers tend not to provide specific examples, in contrast to studies of women, which feature bountiful ...
Hace 5 días · ‘It is time to effect a revolution in female manners’ declared the Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792 ‘– time to restore to them their lost dignity – and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world’.
Hace 3 días · A dramatic and ambitious narrative dominates scholarly thinking about gender in the eighteenth century, a narrative which has variously been proposed but perhaps best presented by Thomas Laqueur. According to Stuart Curran, in the 1790s the novel, poetry and theatre were all dominated by women writers.
Hace 5 días · In her study of the Yorkshire Quaker community between 1766 and 1835, Plant found a clear preponderance of women in ministerial roles, with ninety-six recorded female ministers compared with only sixty-seven men. 67 In framing Collier’s experiences alongside those Yorkshire female ministers of the eighteenth century, it is possible that the Yorkshire Quakers who copied them were perpetuating ...
Hace 2 días · In the nineteenth century, European literature, especially Charles Kingsley's 1853 novel Hypatia, romanticized her as "the last of the Hellenes". In the twentieth century, Hypatia became seen as an icon for women's rights and a precursor to the feminist movement.
