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Female sexuality and cultural degradation in enlightenment France : medicine and literature
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Title
Female sexuality and cultural degradation in enlightenment France : medicine and literature / Mary McAlpin.
ISBN
1409422410
1409422429
9781409422419
9781409422426
1409422410
Published
Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2012.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 195 pages) : illustrations
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Summary
In her study of literature and medical treatises of Enlightenment France, McAlpin explores the belief that premature puberty in young urban girls signalled an increasing moral and physical degeneration. Offering physiologically based readings of heroines in novels by, among others, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Denis Diderot and Choderlos de Laclos, McAlpin shows that the Western view of women's sexuality as a mysterious, nebulous force has its secular origins in the mid-eighteenth century.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: McAlpin, Mary, 1960- Female sexuality and cultural degradation in enlightenment France. Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2012
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-192) and index.
Contents
Daughters of Eve
Puberty and the splitting of the single sex
Women as bellwethers of cultural degradation
Julie d'Etange, or sexuality and the virtuous heroine
The Marquise de Merteuil, or sexuality in the state of nature
Marie-Jeanne Roland, or sexuality and the republic of virtue
Sade's way.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Medicine in Literature
Women - history
Civilization - history
History, 18th Century
Sexuality - history
Social Problems - history
Genre/Form
Electronic books.
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