FEMINISM AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT, 1650-1850
A COMPARATIVE HISTORY
SEMINARS, 1998-9
Institute of Historical Research, University of London, Senate House,
Malet Street, London
4 Nov
KATE SOPER (University of North London) and BARBARA TAYLOR (University
of East London)
Feminism and the Enlightenment: Past Connections and Present
Controversies
2 Dec
SIEP STUURMAN (Erasmus University)
Seventeenth-Century Feminism and the Invention of Modern Equality
27 Jan
SARAH HUTTON (University of Hertfordshire)
God and the Rights of Woman: Ethical and Religious Arguments in
Wollstonecraft and Some Predecessors
24 Feb
URSULA VOGEL (University of Manchester)
Understanding New Worlds Through the Prism of Gender: Voyages of
Discovery in the Age of Enlightenment
10 Mar
JEAN BLOCH (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Dissecting Eighteenth-Century French Pedagogical Ideals for Women:
Tradition and Innovation
5 May
RUTH PERRY (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Women in Families in Eighteenth-Century England: the Great
Disinheritance
ALL MEETINGS BEGIN AT 5PM and last for approximately two hours. They
are open and free of charge.
These meetings are part of a three year research project
exploring the
contribution of the Enlightenment to early feminism, sponsored by the
Department of History, Royal Holloway, and the Department of Cultural
Studies, University of East London, with the generous assistance of the
Leverhulme Trust. Anyone wishing more information should contact
Barbara Taylor (Project Director) or Sarah Knott (Project Research
Fellow), Department of History, Royal Holloway, Egham, Surey TW20 0EX
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