Women in the Eighteenth Century

<p>This anthology gathers together various texts by and about women ranging from `conduct' manuals to pamphlets on prostitution from medical texts to critical definitions of women's writing from anti-female satires to appeals for female equality. By making this material more widely available <em>Women in the Eighteenth Century</em> complements the current upsurge in feminist writing on eighteenth-century literary history and offers students the opportunity to make their own rereadings of literary texts and their ideological contexts.</p>