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• The debate over late births (1764-1806)-- drawing the lines of the debate - opponents, proponents, mediators-- the effect of the debate on medical jurisprudence-- defining the 18th-century physician - scientists, "Philosophe", man of society?-- the problem of convulsions-- the debate over the convulsionaries of St. Medard (1727-1765)-- the debate over mesmerism (1778-1787)-- ignorant and superstitious or overly refined? - the convulsive female in physicians' critiques of culture-- the legacy of the enlightenment.
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Lindsay Wilson takes a new approach to the social history of medicine by focusing on the key role that women played as both providers and recipients of health care during the Ancien regime. Wilson focuses on three medical controversies - the "miraculous cures" claimed by the convulsionaries of St Medard, the uncertainty over the maximum length of pregnancy, and the debate over the medical effectiveness of Mesmerism.
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• Voltaire W.H.Barber, Voltaire after Besterman Guido Santato, Le Contre Voltaire d'Alfieri Religion and ideology Guillaume Ansart, Jansenist themes and influences in Prevost Pierre Berthaume, Exercices spirituelles et quietisme dans Les Confessions de comte de *** de Duclos Oscar Kenshur, Moral rationalism and sexual prohibition in the Lettres persanes Jorn Schosler, Sensualisme et apologetique: le `sourd et muet de Chartres' Fabrice Teulon, Fiasco theorique de l'idvalogie chez Destutt de Tracy Women's studies Madelyn Gutwirth, The `Geneve' quarrel and Enlightenment discourse on women Catherine R. Montfort, Mme de Sevigne and the Jesuit in the siecle des Lumieres Elena Russo, From precieuse to mother figure: the eighteenth-century salonniere Philip Stewart and Miriam Ebel-Davenport, Dossier Claude Crebillon - Henriette Marie Stafford Mary Trouille, Conflicting views of marriage and spousal abuse in the pre-Revolutionary France History of the book Claudette Fortuny, Contrefacons de la 3e edition de l'Histoire des deux Indes Jefrey S.Ravel, Quantitative approaches to play publication Passion Edward Nye, Introduction Dominique Orsini, Histoire de la jeunesse du commandeur de Prevost Flore Galtayries, Images de la passion dans le Doyen de Killerine de Prevost Florence Magnot, Discours sur la passion dans Les Memoires d'un homme de qualite Caroline Warman, Mechanism of the passions in eighteenth-century French thought C.Fourny, The nuances of passion in Crebillon's Les Heureux Orphelins Ioana Galleron, Marasescu La passion, l'evidence et la certitude dans Ah, quel conte! de Crebillon fils Joseph M. Donohue, The paradox of passion in the abbe Du Bos's Reflexions critiques Katherine Astbury, Baculard d'Arnaud's Epreuves du sentiment Melissa Percival, The expressive head in French painting Sandrine Aragon, Lecture feminine et passion dans la litterature francaise (1730-1860) Siofra Pierse, Rousseau and Voltaire on the science and the arts Yvon Bolton, The pathology of passion in Diderot's Encyclopedie Charlotte Simonin, Mme de Graffigny et Les Saturnales.
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The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series, previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are published in English or French.
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• Introduction. first to fall: fertility, American women, and revolution
• Starting, spacing, and stopping: the statistics of birth and family size
• Old ways and new
• Women's words
• Beauty and the bestial: images of women
• Potions, pills, and jumping ropes: the technology of birth control
• Increase and multiply: embarrassed men and public order
• Reluctant revolutionaries
• Conclusion. fertility and the feminine in early America.

In the Age of Revolution, how did American women conceive their lives and marital obligations? By examining the attitudes and behaviors surrounding the contentious issues of family, contraception, abortion, sexuality, beauty, and identity, Susan E. Klepp demonstrates that many women - rural and urban, free and enslaved - began to radically redefine motherhood. They asserted, or attempted to assert, control over their bodies, their marriages, and their daughters' opportunities. Late-eighteenth-century American women were among the first in the world to disavow the continual childbearing and large families that had long been considered ideal. Liberty, equality, and heartfelt religion led to new conceptions of virtuous, rational womanhood and responsible parenthood. These changes can be seen in falling birthrates, in advice to friends and kin, in portraits, and in a gradual, even reluctant, shift in men's opinions. Revolutionary-era women redefined femininity, fertility, family, and their futures by limiting births. Women might not have won the vote in the new Republic, they might not have gained formal rights in other spheres, but, Klepp argues, there was a women's revolution nonetheless.
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• Part 1: defining feminist utopianism
• Mary Astell's "excited needles": imitation, circulation, and a theory of feminist utopia
• Feminist utopia and the new commercialism
• Part 2: women's utopian visions
• Sarah Fielding: ideal readers and utopian commerce
• Reconceiving the contract: Sarah Scott's self-replicating utopia
• Mary Hamilton: plagiarizing utopia
• Reproducing utopia beyond Britain: Jeanne Marie Leprince de Beaumont's The new Clarissa and Sophie von La Roche's Events at Lake Oneida
• Afterword: a middle way.

No human society has ever been perfect, a fact that has led thinkers as far back as Plato and St. Augustine to conceive of utopias both as a fanciful means of escape from an imperfect reality and as a useful tool with which to design improvements upon it. The most studied utopias have been proposed by men, but during the eighteenth century a group of reform-oriented female novelists put forth a series of work that expressed their views of, and their reservations about, ideal societies. In "Women's Utopias of the Eighteenth Century", Alessa Johns examines the utopian communities envisaged by Mary Astell, Sarah Fielding, Mary Hamilton, Sarah Scott, and other writers from Britain and continental Europe, uncovering the ways in which they resembled - and departed from - traditional utopias. Johns demonstrates that while traditional visions tended to look back to absolutist models, women's utopias quickly incorporated emerging liberal ideas that allowed far more room for personal initiative and gave agency to groups that were not culturally dominant, such as the female writers themselves. Women's utopias, Johns argues, were reproductive in nature. They had the potential to reimagine and perpetuate themselves.
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• Linda Zionkowski, "Mother Gin, Motherhood, and the Problem of Domestic Order"-- Earla Wilputte, "Harridans and Heroes: Female Revenge and the Masculine Duel in Jane Barker, Delarivier Manley, and Eliza Haywood"-- Kathryn Prince, "The English and American Editions of Elizabeth Hanson's Captivity Narrative"-- Chantel Lavoie, "The Anthology and Anachronism: Aphra Behn in Poems by Eminent Ladies"-- Anna Atkinson, "Sarah Fielding's The History of Ophelia: 'Liberty of Thought' and the Problem with Paradise"-- Scott Paul Gordon, "Quixotic Perception in Sophia Lee's The Recess"-- Tobi Kozakewich, "Evelina's Simple Story: Sentimentality in Burney's and Inchbald's First Novels"-- Kathryn Ready, "From the Stage to the Closet: Hannah More's Abandonment of Theater"-- Barbel Czennia, "Daring Eccentrics: Popular Biography and Female Deviance in the Later Eighteenth Century"-- Jenny Davidson, "Professional Education and Female Accomplishments: Gender and Education in Maria Edgeworth's Patronage"-- Barbara Brandon Schnorrenberg, "Mrs. Montagu and the Architects"-- Betty Rizzo, "The Frances Greville Letters: An Edition, Part I"-- 13 Book Reviews-- Index.
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Eighteenth-century women have long been presented as the heroines of traditional biographies, or as the faceless victims of vast historical processes, but rarely have they been deemed worthy of historical enquiry. "The Gentleman's Daughter" provides an account of the lives of genteel women - the daughters of merchants, the wives of lawyers and the sisters of gentlemen. Based on a study of the letters, diaries and account books of over 100 women from commercial, professional and gentry families, mainly in provincial England, "The Gentleman's Daughter" challenges the view that the period witnessed a new division of the everyday worlds of privileged men and women into the separate spheres of home and work. Amanda Vickery invokes the women's own accounts of their lives to argue that in the course of the 18th and early 19th centuries the scope of female experience did not diminish - in fact, quite the reverse. Contrary to orthodoxy, in the 18th century there was neither a loss of female freedoms, nor a novel retreat into the home. In their own writing, genteel women throughout the Georgian era singled out their social and their emotional roles: kinswoman, wife, mother, housekeeper, consumer, hostess and member of polite society. To make sense of their existence, they invoked notions of family destiny, love and duty, regularity and economy, gentility and propriety, fortitude, resignation and fate. At the same time, as Vickery demonstrates, their social and intellectual horizons rolled outward: in their writing no less than in their reading, genteel women embraced a world far beyond the boundaries of their parish, while an array of new public arenas emerged for the entertainment of the proper and the prosperous - assembly rooms, concert series, theatre seasons, circulating libraries, day-time lectures, urban walks and pleasure gardens, as well as regular sporting fixtures and the assizes. This often humorous study offers an insight into the intimate and everyday lives of genteel women and aims to transform our understanding of the position of women in this period.
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• Hierarchy and Difference
• Families
• Sexuality and Reproduction
• Food and Consumption
• Work and Money
• Paths of the Spirit
• Cultures of Women
• Civil Society and the State
• Age of Revolutions
• Conclusion Notes Further Reading Bibliography Index.
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Was the century of Voltaire also the century of women? In the eighteenth century changes in the nature of work, family life, sexuality, education, law, religion, politics and warfare radically altered the lives of women. Some of these developments caused immense confusion and suffering; others greatly expanded women's opportunities and worldview - long before the various women's suffrage movements were more than a glimmer on the horizon. This study pays attention to queens as well as commoners; respectable working women as well as prostitutes; women physicists and mathematicians as well as musicians and actresses; feminists as well as their critics. The result is a rich and morally complex tale of conflict and tragedy, but also of achievement. The book deals with many regions and topics often under-represented in general surveys of European women, including coverage of the Balkans and both European Turkey and Anatolia, of Eastern Europe, of European colonial expansion (particularly the slave trade) and of Muslim, Eastern Orthodox, and Jewish women's history. Bringing all of Europe into the narrative of early modern women's history challenges many received assumptions about Europe and women in past times, and provides essential background for dealing with issues of diversity in the Europe of today.
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