Fran Ois Poulain De La Barre And The Invention Of Modern Equality
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Fran Ois Poulain De La Barre And The Invention Of Modern Equality
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Author : Siep Stuurman
language : en
Publisher: Belknap Press
Release Date : 2004
Fran Ois Poulain De La Barre And The Invention Of Modern Equality written by Siep Stuurman and has been published by Belknap Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Enlightenment categories.
His writings challenging male supremacy and advocating gender and racial equality are the most radically egalitarian texts to appear in Europe before the French revolution."
Three Cartesian Feminist Treatises
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Author : François Poullain de la Barre
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2007-11-01
Three Cartesian Feminist Treatises written by François Poullain de la Barre and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-01 with Social Science categories.
One of the most radical feminist theorists in Europe before the nineteenth century, François Poullain de la Barre (1647-1723) was a man way ahead of his time. Applying Cartesian principles to "the Woman Question," Poullain demonstrated by rational deduction that the supposedly "self-evident" inequality of the sexes was nothing more than unfounded prejudice. Poullain published three books (anonymously) on this topic in the 1670s, all of which are included in English translation in this volume. In On the Equality of the Two Sexes he argued that the supposedly "natural" inferiority of women was culturally produced. To help women recognize and combat this prejudice, Poullain advocated a modern, enlightened feminine education in On the Education of Ladies. Finally, since his contemporaries largely ignored Poullain's writings, he offered a rebuttal to his own arguments in On the Excellence of Men—a rebuttal that he promptly countered, strengthening his original positions. A truly modern feminist, Poullain laid the intellectual groundwork for the women's liberation movement centuries before it happened.
The Invention Of Humanity
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Author : Siep Stuurman
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2017-02-20
The Invention Of Humanity written by Siep Stuurman and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-20 with History categories.
For much of history, strangers were routinely classified as barbarians and inferiors, seldom as fellow human beings. The notion of a common humanity was counterintuitive and thus had to be invented. Siep Stuurman traces evolving ideas of human equality and difference across continents and civilizations from ancient times to the present. Despite humans’ deeply ingrained bias against strangers, migration and cultural blending have shaped human experience from the earliest times. As travelers crossed frontiers and came into contact with unfamiliar peoples and customs, frontier experiences generated not only hostility but also empathy and understanding. Empires sought to civilize their “barbarians,” but in all historical eras critics of empire were able to imagine how the subjected peoples made short shrift of imperial arrogance. Drawing on the views of a global mix of thinkers—Homer, Confucius, Herodotus, the medieval Muslim scholar Ibn Khaldun, the Haitian writer Antenor Firmin, the Filipino nationalist Jose Rizal, and more—The Invention of Humanity surveys the great civilizational frontiers of history, from the interaction of nomadic and sedentary societies in ancient Eurasia and Africa, to Europeans’ first encounters with the indigenous peoples of the New World, to the Enlightenment invention of universal “modern equality.” Against a backdrop of two millennia of thinking about common humanity and equality, Stuurman concludes with a discussion of present-day debates about human rights and the “clash of civilizations.”
Towards An Equality Of The Sexes In Early Modern France
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Author : Derval Conroy
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-02-24
Towards An Equality Of The Sexes In Early Modern France written by Derval Conroy and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-24 with History categories.
This volume sets out to examine the ways in which an equality between the sexes is constructed, conceptualised, imagined or realised in early modern France, a period and a country which produced some of the earliest theorisations on equality. In so doing, it aims to contribute towards the development of the history of equality as an intellectual category within the history of political thought, and to situate "the woman question" within that history. The eleven chapters in the volume span the fields of political theory, philosophy, literature, history and history of ideas, bringing together literary scholars, historians, philosophers and scholars of political thought, and examining an extensive range of primary sources. Whilst most of the chapters focus on the conceptualisation of a moral, metaphysical or intellectual equality between the sexes, space is also given to concrete examples of a de facto gender equality in operation. The volume is aimed at scholars and graduate students of political thought, history of philosophy, women’s history and gender studies alike. It aims to throw light on the history of Western ideas of equality and difference, questions which continue to preoccupy cultural historians, philosophers, political theorists and feminist critics.
The Equality Of The Sexes
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Author : Desmond M. Clarke
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2013-09-12
The Equality Of The Sexes written by Desmond M. Clarke and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-12 with Philosophy categories.
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.
The Woman As Good As The Man Or The Equality Of Both Sexes
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Author : François Poulain de La Barre
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
The Woman As Good As The Man Or The Equality Of Both Sexes written by François Poulain de La Barre and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Social Science categories.
De l'égalité des deux sexes, 1673: Engl. transl.: 1677.
The Equality Of The Two Sexes
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Author : François Poulain de La Barre
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
The Equality Of The Two Sexes written by François Poulain de La Barre and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with History categories.
In this example of Cartesian rationalism, Poullain expounds a remarkably modern feminist position - that sexual inequality is not rooted in nature, but is the historical result of custom, ignorance, and prejudice. Translated into English text from the original French text of 1673, this edition also includes an introduction.
The Mind Has No Sex
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Author : Londa Schiebinger
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1991-03
The Mind Has No Sex written by Londa Schiebinger and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-03 with History categories.
A reexamination of the origins of modern science; discovers a forgotten heritage of women scientists and probes the cultural and historical forces that continue to shape the course of scientific scholarship and knowledge.
The Two Reformations
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Author : Heiko A. Oberman
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2008-10-01
The Two Reformations written by Heiko A. Oberman and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-01 with Religion categories.
In this last collection of his vital, controversial, and accessible writings, Heiko A. Oberman seeks to liberate and broaden our understanding of the European Reformation, from its origins in medieval philosophy and theology through the Puritan settlers who brought Calvin’s vision to the New World. Ranging over many topics, Oberman finds fascinating connections between aspects of the Reformation and twentieth-century history and thought—most notably the connection to Nazism and the Holocaust. He revisits his earlier work on the history of anti-Semitism, rejects the notion of an unbroken line from Luther to Hitler to the Holocaust, and offers a new perspective on the Christian legacy of anti-Semitism and its murderous result in the twentieth century. Oberman demonstrates how the simplifications and rigidities of modern historiography have obscured the existential spirits of such great figures as Luther and Calvin. He explores the debt of both Luther and Calvin to medieval religious thought and the impact of diverse features of “the long fifteenth century”—including the Black Death, nominalism, humanism, and the Conciliar Movement—on the Reformation.
The Equality Of The Sexes
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-09-12
The Equality Of The Sexes written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-12 with History categories.
The seventeenth century witnessed the first publications that argued for the equality of men and women. Desmond M. Clarke presents new translations of the three most important ones, with excerpts from the authors' related writings, together with an extensive introduction to the religious and philosophical context within which they argued.