Description
Book SynopsisBannet demonstrates which issues joined and separated different camps of eighteenth-century women, tracing the origins of debates that continue to shape contemporary feminist thought.
Trade ReviewAn important and provocative treatment of the politics of domesticity, and the domesticity of politics, or the reciprocal relationship between two allegedly estranged spheres that formed the very foundation for early feminism. -- Julie Park Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature 2002
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: Enlightenment Feminisms and the Domestic Novel
Chapter 1. The Question of Domestic Government
Chapter 2. Domestic Fictions and the Pedagogy Example
Chapter 3. Sexual Revolution and the Hardwicke Marriage Act
Chapter 4. "The Public Uses of Private Families"
Chapter 5. Governing Utopias and the Feminist Rousseau
Conclusion: The Domestic Revolution
Notes
Works Cited
Index
