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Book SynopsisEllen Pollak is Professor of English at Michigan State University, USA, and is author of T
he Poetics of Sexual Myth: Gender and Ideology in the Verse of Swift and Pope and
Incest and the English Novel, 1684-1814.
Table of ContentsA Cultural History of Women in the Age of Enlightenment, Edited by Ellen Pollak Introduction The Life Cycle: Motherhood during the Enlightenment, Kathleen Brown, University of Pennsylvania, USA Bodies & Sexuality: Sex, Gender, and the Limits of Enlightenment, Susan S. Lanser, Brandeis University, USA Religion & Popular Beliefs: Visionary Women in the Age of Enlightenment, Phyllis Mack, Rutgers University, USA Medicine & Disease: Women, Practice, and Print in the Enlightenment Medical Marketplace, Lisa Forman Cody, Claremont McKenna College, USA Public and Private: Public and Private Lives in Eighteenth-Century France, Joan B. Landes, Penn State University, USA Education & Work: The Case of Laboring Women Poets in England, Scotland, and Germany, Susanne Kord, University College London, UK Power: Varieties of Female Political Power in Enlightenment England, Charlotte Sussman, Duke University, USA Artistic Representation: The Famous Ballads of Anna Gordon, Mrs. Brown, Ruth Perry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
