Les Femmes Savantes and Feminism

Shaw, David

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“…Ladies are going to "judge everyone" by "their own laws," and those who doubt their mind and talent "learned women" claimed outcast and stupid". Today there is no Moliere, but the concept of les femmes savantes has become a modern sarcastic connotation of feminism [21].…”

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Ideal Female Types in Sociological and Philosophical Understanding

Савченко¹,

Ustinkin²,

Ageeva³

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the Internation Conference on "Humanities and Social Sciences: Novations, Problems, Prospects" (HSSNPP 2019)

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The ideal type, as one of the leading concepts of the Weberian cognitive theory of social phenomena, is a collective construction which reproduces the specifics and cause-effect structure of the formation and internal dynamics of the object of scientific research. The epistemological status of the ideal type implies the use of not the normatively prescribed methods of constructing ideas about the subject, but the use of the form of reflection and judgment of empirical material inherent in social and philosophical science. Therefore, in this article, the subject of the research is a collective timeless image of heroidsthe ideal female type, which, like many other ideal types, despite objective transformations, passes through mythology, literature, real events from ancient times to modern times. A heroid is a collective type of woman helping the "hero", but not appreciated by him. Despite a number of common features, the concept of heroids lends itself to internal classification. Heroid images are grouped into categorical types. These types are stable and have a timeless nature, but their manifestation is largely determined by the sociocultural and historical context.

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Section: 가 the Intellectual Type 가mentioning

confidence: 99%

Ideal Female Types in Sociological and Philosophical Understanding

Савченко¹,

Ustinkin²,

Ageeva³

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the Internation Conference on "Humanities and Social Sciences: Novations, Problems, Prospects" (HSSNPP 2019)

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The Exigencies of Disillusionment in Madame de Maintenon’s Pedagogical Drama

Kennedy

2024

Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal

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Staging the Impossible Femme Forte in Madame de Maintenon’s Dramatic Conversations

Kennedy¹

2014

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Madame de Maintenon, King Louis XIV’s secret wife is an historic figure who remains shrouded in mystery even today largely due to the fact that much of her correspondence with the king was burned after 1713. However, what further distorted her image were the unflattering accounts written by Saint-Simon. As a result of this negative backlash, Maintenon’s contribution to female education has been forgotten. As the director of Saint-Cyr, the boarding school she founded for daughters of impoverished noble families, Maintenon placed a unique emphasis on the art of conversation, a skill that was neglected in traditional female education. Maintenon’s original conversations, morality plays loosely based on Mademoiselle de Scudéry’s conversations, were intended to teach good judgment to the older female pupils as they prepared to leave Saint-Cyr. This study of Maintenon’s conversations seeks to highlight the complexity and irony of this mysterious morganatic queen whose search for unattainable fulfillment is seen in the model woman she expects her pupils to emulate. Maintenon bases her féminin idéal on the femme forte described in the Biblical proverbs. The latter is described in the conversations as one who should take pride in her domestic duties, reject polite society, and use her knowledge only to better serve her family. Maintenon, however, cannot be seen as the perfect example of domestic bliss. Having led a very public life, her insistence on domesticity and avoidance of society life does not align itself with her own lifestyle. Ironically, she depicts marriage as slavery and men as tyrants, all the while encouraging her pupils to choose marriage as opposed to celibacy or the veil. These inconsistencies suggest that the femme forte modeled in the conversations is the woman Maintenon believed she ought to have been. Thus, through her own regret Maintenon teaches her pupils how to become a femme forte , and yet at the same time, she is as inaccessible as Maintenon herself.

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Les Femmes Savantes and Feminism

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Ideal Female Types in Sociological and Philosophical Understanding

Ideal Female Types in Sociological and Philosophical Understanding

The Exigencies of Disillusionment in Madame de Maintenon’s Pedagogical Drama

Staging the Impossible Femme Forte in Madame de Maintenon’s Dramatic Conversations

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