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Author | : Christine Mason Sutherland |
Publisher | : University of Calgary Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1552381536 |
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The Eloquence of Mary Astell makes an important contribution to the knowledge and understanding of the important role that women, and one woman in particular, played in the history of rhetoric. Mary Astell (1666-1731) was an unusually perceptive thinker and writer during the time of the Enlightenment. Here, author Christine Sutherland explores her importance as a rhetorician, an area that has, until recently, received little attention. Astell was widely known and respected during her own time, but her influence and reputation receded in the years after her death. Her importance as an Enlightenment thinker is becoming more and more recognized, however. As a skilled theorist and practitioner of rhetoric, Astell wrote extensively on education, philosophy, politics, religion, and the status of women. She showed that it was possible for a woman to move from the semi-private form of rhetoric represented by conversation and letters into full public participation in philosophical and political debate.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Feminism |
ISBN | : 9781552386613 |
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Practically ignored for over 200 years, Mary Astell's writing returned to prominence in the latter part of the 20th century in a celebrated biography by Ruth Perry. Self-educated, Astell was an avid political thinker, philosopher, educationalist and early feminist. Until recently, little attention has been paid to her importance and skill in rhetoric, where she is known as both a practitioner and theorist. Her work is remarkable for an intellectual depth that does not comprise accessibility and for a style that is forcefully persuasive yet grounded in the rhythms of conversation. Widely respected for her participation in public discourse on politics and philosophy, she was well ahead of her time in the development of the rhetoric of care, an approach later echoed by 20th century feminists in their battle for equality. Drawing inspiration both from ancient theories and models and from early enlightenment philosophy, Astell's thought has a timelessness that allows her to instruct and inspire us all.
Author | : Mary Astell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1701 |
Genre | : Conduct of life |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Desmond M. Clarke |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2013-09-12 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191654493 |
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Desmond M. Clarke presents new translations of three of the first feminist tracts to support explicitly the equality of the sexes. The alleged inferiority of women's nature and the corresponding roles that women were (in)capable of exercising in society were debated in Western culture from the civilization of ancient Greece to the establishment of early Christian churches. There had also been some proponents of women's superiority (in comparison with men) prior to the early modern period. In contrast with both of these claims, the seventeenth century witnessed the first publications that argued for the equality of men and women. Among the most articulate and original defenders of that view were Marie le Jars de Gournay, Anna Maria van Schurman, and François Poulain de la Barre. Gournay published The Equality of Men and Women in Paris in 1622, while one of her Dutch correspondents, Van Schurman, published in Latin her Dissertation in support of women's education in 1641. Poulain wrote a radical Physical and Moral Discourse concerning the Equality of Both Sexes in 1673, which he also published in Paris. These three feminist tracts transformed the language and conceptual framework in which questions about women's equality or otherwise were subsequently discussed. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, anonymous plagiarized editions and pirated translations of Poulain's work appeared in English, as 'vindications' of the rights of women. This edition includes new translations, from French and Latin, of these three key texts, and excerpts from the authors' related writings, together with an extensive introduction to the religious and philosophical context within which they argued against the traditional view of women's natural inferiority to men.
Author | : Elizabeth Vander Lei |
Publisher | : Heinemann Educational Books |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Education |
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Author | : Mary Astell |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 125 |
Release | : 2023-08-22 |
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ISBN | : 3368376845 |
Download Some Reflections Upon Marriage; With Additions Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Jacqueline Broad |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198716818 |
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Jacqueline Broad presents a new account of the philosophy of Mary Astell (1666-1731), which situates Astell's feminist, political, and religious views in the context of her wider philosophical vision. She argues that at the heart of Astell's thought lies a theory of virtue which emphasises generosity of character, benevolence, and moderation.
Author | : Barry J. Eichengreen |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0190866284 |
Download The Populist Temptation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Populism, a political movement with anti-elite, authoritarian and nativist tendencies, typically spearheaded by a charismatic leader, is an old phenomenon but also a very new and disturbing one at that. The Populist Temptation is an effort to understand the wellsprings of populist movements and why the threat they pose to mainstream political parties and pluralistic democracy has been more successfully contained in some cases than others"--
Author | : Myra Reynolds |
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Total Pages | : 542 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Download The Learned Lady in England, 1650-1760 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Tim May |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2017-06-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1473987741 |
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Reflexivity – the critical examination of how we see the world – is integral to good research practice. From this state-of-the-art, accessible tour of its history and contemporary relevance, readers will learn of its importance to social research and to society generally. The text introduces a host of influential thinkers and their key ideas on reflexivity, and incorporates examples from a range of disciplines and research settings. Drawing on the authors’ extensive experience of real research settings, this book: Pinpoints the importance of reflexivity in social research Demonstrates its relevance to everyday life Firmly locates the concept in the history of ideas Explores key questions about the bases of knowledge and understanding Presents key thinkers, concepts and issues in easy-to-understand learning boxes The result is a book that provides students and researchers in the social sciences with the knowledge and understanding necessary not only to examine the role of reflexivity in contemporary life, but to apply it in their own research practice.