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Louise Dupin's Work on Women : Selections

Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2023 [©2023]

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Work on Women is the French Enlightenment's most in-depth feminist analysis of inequality--and its most neglected one. In it, Louise Dupin, also known as Madame Dupin (1706-1799), reveals the sexist bias ("masculine vanity") that informs the knowledge and institutions that shape women's lives and argues that the subjection of women is a modern phenomenon, based on an illegitimate, abusive marriage contract. This is the first-ever edition of selected translations of Dupin's massive project, developed from manuscript drafts. Robust introductions to the text contextualize Dupin's working methods--including the role of her secretary, Jean-Jacques Rousseau-and emphasize the importance of feminist thought to the development of moral and political philosophy.

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Cover -- Series -- Louise Dupin's Work on Women -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Editors' Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Selection and Translation -- Reader's Orientation -- Chronology: Timeline of Dupin's Life -- Introduction to the Volume -- Part I: Science -- Article 1. Observations on the Equality of the Sexes and on Their Difference -- Article 2. On Generation -- Article 3. On Temperament -- Article 4. On Strength -- Article 5. Animal and Plant Analogies -- Part II: History and Religion -- Article 12. Foreword on History -- Article 13. On Ancient History -- Article 18. On Turkey and Persia -- Article 20. Other Countries -- Article 21. On the History of France -- Article 8. On the Discipline of the Church -- Article 10. On the State of Monastic Orders since the Council of Trent -- Part III: Law -- Article 27. Foreword on Laws -- Article 28. On Salic Law, Considered as a Law -- Article 29. On Different Forms of Roman Marriage, on the Property Rights That Married Women Enjoyed, and on Marriage Today -- Article 30. On the Power of Husbands -- On the Prerogatives That the Law Grants-​and Could Grant-​to Married Women -- Article 32. On Adultery and Its Punishment -- Article 36. On Tutorships and Testimony -- Chapter 37. On Rape -- Part IV: Education and Mores -- [Article 22]. Foreword on Mores -- Article 23. On Education -- Article 39. The Effects of Education on Morals -- Article 40. Further Reflections on Education -- Article 42. Education in Marriage -- Article 45. On the Spirit of General Conversation -- Article 46. Observations on the Spirit of Theater -- Appendices -- Appendix A. Work on Women Articles and Manuscript Pieces -- Appendix B. Anicet Sénéchal's Inventory and Ordering of Manuscript -- Bibliography of Selected Secondary Sources -- Index.