Three Cartesian Feminist Treatises (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe)
Contributors: Marcelle Maistre Welch (Introduction); Vivien Bosley (Translator)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: December 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780226676531
Subjects: Feminism; c 1600 to c 1700; Sociology Of Women; Women In Education; Social Science; Sociology; France; Women's Studies - General; Poulain de La Barre, Francois; Social Science / Women's Studies; Views on women; Europe - France; General; Early works to 1800; Education; Equality; Women; Women's rights
First sentence: During a short three-year period at the end of the Querelle des femmes, as the "Woman Question" debate was known in French society in the seventeenth century, Francois Poullain wrote three treatises on women's nature and destiny that departed noticeably from the traditional discourse on women's fate in a patriachal society.