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This book examines what 16 radical and conservative, famous and notorious British women wrote about their sex in the 1790s. It offers a comprehensive survey of what they thought about their fellow women with regard to love, sexual desire and marriage; their domestic roles and issues of gender and female abilities including sensibility and genius.

Table of Contents

1. Unsex'd females and proper women writers
2. Our narratives about them
3. Female difficulties: women as victims
4. Love, marriage and the family
5. Separate spheres?
6. Female opportunities: fashioning a self
7. Conclusion
Index

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 7/1/2010 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719082177, 978-0719082177
      ISBN10: 071908217X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book examines what 16 radical and conservative, famous and notorious British women wrote about their sex in the 1790s. It offers a comprehensive survey of what they thought about their fellow women with regard to love, sexual desire and marriage; their domestic roles and issues of gender and female abilities including sensibility and genius.

      Table of Contents

      1. Unsex'd females and proper women writers
      2. Our narratives about them
      3. Female difficulties: women as victims
      4. Love, marriage and the family
      5. Separate spheres?
      6. Female opportunities: fashioning a self
      7. Conclusion
      Index

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