"Women's Empire" and the Sovereignty of Man in La Decade philosophique, 1794-1807

Colwill, Elizabeth

doi:10.1353/ecs.1996.0025

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Epistolary Passions: Friendship and the Literary Public of Constance de Salm, 1767-1845

Colwill¹

2000

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The epistolary friendships of Constance de Salm--a feminist and femme philosophe (woman philosopher) prominent in her own time but virtually forgotten today--provide a counterpoint to feminist scholarship that has tended to idealize relationships among women. Salm's little-known, unpublished correspondence from the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries reveals that competition and political expediency excluded from her circle those female intellectuals most like herself. Her closest relationships with women, while characterized by intense attachment, often flourished in the context of radical difference in wealth, status, or celebrity. They were also far more conflict ridden and volatile than were her relationships with men. The relational world of Constance de Salm promises to open up a new history of friendship, and sheds light upon the ways in which friendships among both men and women contributed to the emergence of a female literary sphere in the early nineteenth century. Studying the relations among gender, epistolarity, and intimacy yields a more nuanced understanding of gendered spheres, and suggests the complexity and public significance of the bonds of womanhood in late-eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe.

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Epistolary Passions: Friendship and the Literary Public of Constance de Salm, 1767-1845

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2000

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Reconstructing Rural Infanticide in Eighteenth-Century Scotland

Symonds¹

1998

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Infanticide was a common occurrence in early modern Scotland, the result of complex economic forces that made marriage difficult. Premarital sex leading to illegitimate births was dangerous for women even from 1690, when a harsh statute was enacted and women began to be hanged, until about 1730. After this time, women convicted of infanticide tended to be banished rather than executed. This article uses a typical case from 1762 and information drawn from 346 other women's investigations and trials to explore the dynamics of infanticide, most often committed by young, single, agricultural servants or daughters of tenant farmers accused by older married women, often midwives, and ministers. Yet, all-male juries became reluctant to convict, reflecting the developing bourgeois ideology of motherhood and the inexorable process of agricultural transformation.

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Les Bourgeoises Au Pensionnat

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"Women's Empire" and the Sovereignty of Man in La Decade philosophique, 1794-1807

Cited by 5 publications

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Epistolary Passions: Friendship and the Literary Public of Constance de Salm, 1767-1845

Epistolary Passions: Friendship and the Literary Public of Constance de Salm, 1767-1845

Reconstructing Rural Infanticide in Eighteenth-Century Scotland

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