Women in the Eighteenth Century
Subtitle: Constructions of Femininity (World and Word Series)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: July 1990
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780415034883
First sentence: The concern of all eighteenth-century 'conduct' manuals for women is how women might create themselves as objects of male desire, but in terms which will contain that desire within the publicly sanctioned form of marriage.