Feminists Versus Gallants: Manners and Morals in Enlightenment Britain

Barbara Taylor

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Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment Gender and Feminist Studies Historical Gender and Feminism Studies

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ABSTRACT Mary Wollstonecraft is usually portrayed as an Enlightenment thinker. But in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) she denounced “modern philosophers” for purveying prejudicial images of women masked in a rhetoric of sexual compliment. This essay explores the relationship between Enlightenment attitudes to women and feminism in Britain, showing the gap that opened up between mainstream enlightened opinion (“modern gallantry”) and women's-rights egalitarianismin the 1790s.

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1985The Enlightenment Debate on Women 1998PERCY'S PROLOGUE: FROM GENDER PLAY TO GENDER PANIC IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND

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