Search results for "Gender studies"
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Criminally Queer: Homosexuality and Criminal Law in Scandinavia 1842-1999edited by Jens Rydström and Kati Mustola
2009
Historians on Finland’s Status in the Russian Empire
1998
A Fatherland of Free Men. Virility and ‘Frailty’ in Spanish Liberalism (1808–1814)
2021
Book Review: Ecological Masculinities: Theoretical Foundations and Practical Guidance
2019
Zoomasculinities: At the Intersection Between Animals, Animality, and Masculinity
2020
The Philosophy of Democracy and the Paradoxes of Majority Rule
1997
On Women's Reason, Education and Love: Women and Men of the Enlightenment in Spain and France
1998
This article is an exploration of the ways in which Enlightenment discourse constructed the sentimental and intellectual ‘nature’ of women and of the ways cultivated women could situate themselves within this context. They were able to produce a discourse which shared Enlightenment arguments but also displayed a vital and intellectual distance from restrictive definitions of femininity. The lives and writings of three eighteenth-century French and Spanish women, Mme d'Epinay, Josefa Amar y Borbon and Ines Joyes y Blake are taken as case-studies. Their participation in the cultural debate of their time and their agreements and disagree-ments with intellectuals and politicians such as Roussea…