Through the reading glass
women, books, and sex in the French Enlightenment
by Suellen Diaconoff
"Through the Reading Glass explores the practices and protocols that surrounded women's reading in eighteenth-century France. Looking at texts as various as fairy tales, memoirs, historical romances, short stories, love letters, novels, and the pages of the new female periodical press, Suellen Diaconoff shows how a reading culture, one in which books, sex, and acts of reading were richly and evocatively intertwined, was constructed for and by women. Diaconoff proposes that the underlying discourse of virtue found in women's work was both an empowering strategy, intended to create new kinds of responsible and not merely responsive readers, and an integral part of the conviction that domestic reading does not have to be trivial."--Jacket.
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Through the Reading Glass: Women, Books, And Sex in the French Enlightenment (Suny Series in Feminist Criticism and Theory)
June 2006, State University of New York Press
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in English
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Through the reading glass: women, books, and sex in the French Enlightenment
2005, State University of New York Press
in English
0791464210 9780791464212
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Through the Reading Glass: Women, Books, and Sex in the French Enlightenment
2005, State University of New York Press
in English
0791483398 9780791483398
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Through the Reading Glass: Women, Books, and Sex in the French Enlightenment
2005, State University of New York Press
in English
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