The Emerging Female Citizen: Gender and Enlightenment in Spain Volume 53

by Theresa Ann Smith

Book Overview

Eighteenth-century Spanish women were not idle bystanders during one of Europe's most dynamic eras. As Theresa Ann Smith skillfully demonstrates in this lively and absorbing book, Spanish intellectuals, calling for Spain to modernize its political, social, and economic institutions, brought the question of women's place to the forefront, as did women themselves. In explaining how both discourse and women's actions worked together to define women's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520245830
• ISBN13: 9780520245839
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"