Gender and Enlightenment Culture in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
-
Rosalind Carr
About this book
Presents major new research on gender in the Scottish Enlightenment
Free chapter to download - Chapter 2: Women and Intellectual Culture
What role did gender play in the Scottish Enlightenment? Combining intellectual and cultural history, this book explores how men and women experienced the Scottish Enlightenment. It examines Scotland in a European context, investigating ideologies of gender and cultural practices among the urban elites of Scotland in the 18th century.
The book provides an in-depth analysis of men's construction and performance of masculinity in intellectual clubs, taverns and through the violent ritual of the duel. Women are important actors in this story, and the book presents an analysis of women's contribution to Scottish Enlightenment culture, and it asks why there were no Scottish bluestockings.
"Topics
-
Download PDFPublicly Available
Frontmatter
i -
Download PDFPublicly Available
Contents
v -
Download PDFPublicly Available
Acknowledgements
vi -
Download PDFPublicly Available
Abbreviations
viii -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Introduction: Gender and Scottish Enlightenment Culture
1 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
1 Masculinity, Homosociality and Intellectual Culture
36 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
2 Women and Intellectual Culture
73 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
3 Urbane and Urban Sociability in Enlightenment Edinburgh
102 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
4 Enlightened Violence? Elite Manhood and the Duel
142 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Conclusion
175 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Bibliography
180 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Index
197
