L'Honnête Femme

L'Honnête Femme
Author: Jacques Du Bosc
Publisher: Iter Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Ethics
ISBN: 9780772721600

This edition offers a translation of two works by the seventeenth-century French Franciscan, Jacques Du Bosc: selected passages from L'Honneste femme (1632-36) and the entirety of Nouveau recueil des lettres de dames de ce temps (1635). Both of these texts articulate the theory and practice of the emerging ideal of honnêteté for women. To Du Bosc's way of thinking, the honnête or "respectable" woman's role in society is not only that of mother and wife; she is primarily a member of a social elite who embodies the art of pleasing through her politeness, urbanity, and conversation. Du Bosc's work aims to justify this new role for women, even as he sets out the rules of moral conduct to guide them. In so doing, he refutes traditional misogynist attitudes while insisting that women follow a Christian moral code of conduct. Like his predecessor François de Sales, Du Bosc treats women as reasoning beings capable of guiding their own conscience. Moreover, Du Bosc promotes equality between the sexes, especially in relation to their moral behavior. In both of these texts from the first half of the seventeenth century Du Bosc made important contributions which helped shift public attitudes toward embracing women's intellectual and moral equality.--

Arts & Humanities Citation Index

Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1408
Release: 1987
Genre: Arts
ISBN:

A multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It fully covers 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and it indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.

The Ladies' Pocket Magazine

The Ladies' Pocket Magazine
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-07-18
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781021761019

A popular women's magazine published in the 19th century, containing fashion and beauty tips, recipes, household advice, and articles on literature and current events. This book offers a glimpse into the lifestyle and interests of Victorian women, and is a valuable source for researchers and enthusiasts of women's history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

'A Moving Rhetoricke'

'A Moving Rhetoricke'
Author: Christina Luckyj
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2002
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780719061561

An investigation of a wide range of contemporary sources, from domestic conduct guides to emblem books, this study offers fresh perspectives on both culture and literature.

Women and Literature in Britain, 1500-1700

Women and Literature in Britain, 1500-1700
Author: Helen Wilcox
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 334
Release: 1996-11-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521467773

First comprehensive introduction to women's role in, and access to, literary culture in early modern Britain.

The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women

The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women
Author: JOSEPH. SWETNAM
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2018-04-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9781385395493

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Bodleian Library (Oxford) T184911 Anonymous. By Joseph Swetnam. Originally published in 1615 as 'The araignment of lewde, idle, froward, and unconstant women'. London: printed for B. Deacon, 1704. [14],17-168p.; 12°

Women's Education in Early Modern Europe

Women's Education in Early Modern Europe
Author: Barbara Whitehead
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2012-10-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135580944

This book chronicles 300 years of women's education during this time. Barabara Whitehead examines this history from a feminist perspective, pointing to the subversive actions of the women of this period that led to the formation of academia as we know it.