A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1700-1800 (Hardcover)

Introduction; 1. Early eighteenth-century debates: from Anne Dacier to Catharine Trotter Cockburn; 2. Mary Delariviere Manley, Mary Wortley Montagu and Eliza Haywood: sexuality and politics in the works of Whig and Tory women; 3. From the marquise de Lambert to Francoise de Graffigny: the ideology of the salons; 4. Enlightenment women in Italy; 5. From Hanover and Leipzig to Russia; 6. Women's moral mission and the Bluestocking circle; 7. Responses to Jean-Jacques Rousseau: from Octavie Belot to Germaine de Stael; 8. Radical English women: from Catharine Macaulay to Helen Maria Williams; 9. Anticipating and experiencing the revolution in France; 10. Women and revolution in Italy, Germany, and Holland; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.