TY - BOOK ID - 78073427 TI - The emerging female citizen : gender and enlightenment in Spain PY - 2006 SN - 0520932226 9780520932227 0520245830 9780520245839 9780520245839 0520245830 PB - Berkeley : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Women KW - Sex role KW - Feminism KW - Emancipation of women KW - Feminist movement KW - Women's lib KW - Women's liberation KW - Women's liberation movement KW - Women's movement KW - Social movements KW - Anti-feminism KW - Human females KW - Wimmin KW - Woman KW - Womon KW - Womyn KW - Females KW - Human beings KW - Femininity KW - Gender role KW - Sex (Psychology) KW - Sex differences (Psychology) KW - Social role KW - Gender expression KW - Sexism KW - History KW - Intellectual life. KW - Social conditions. KW - Emancipation KW - Gender roles KW - Gendered role KW - Gendered roles KW - Role, Gender KW - Role, Gendered KW - Role, Sex KW - Roles, Gender KW - Roles, Gendered KW - Roles, Sex KW - Sex roles KW - enlightenment. KW - europe. KW - female artist. KW - female author. KW - female citizen. KW - femininity. KW - feminism. KW - gender roles. KW - gender studies. KW - gender. KW - history. KW - intellectual women. KW - nonfiction. KW - political discourse. KW - political reform. KW - politics. KW - public discourse. KW - social action. KW - spanish women. KW - tertulias. KW - the woman question. KW - women in history. KW - women. KW - womens place. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78073427 AB - Eighteenth-century Spanish women were not idle bystanders during one of Europe's most dynamic eras. As Theresa Ann Smith skillfully demonstrates in this lively and absorbing book, Spanish intellectuals, calling for Spain to modernize its political, social, and economic institutions, brought the question of women's place to the forefront, as did women themselves. In explaining how both discourse and women's actions worked together to define women's roles in the nation, The Emerging Female Citizen not only illustrates the rising visibility of women, but also reveals the complex processes that led to women's relatively swift exit from most public institutions in the early 1800's. As artists, writers, and reformers, Spanish women took up pens, joined academies and economic societies, formed tertulia's-similar to French salons-and became active in the burgeoning public discourse of Enlightenment. In analyzing the meaning of women's presence in diverse centers of Enlightenment, Smith offers a new interpretation of the dynamics among political discourse, social action, and gender ideologies. ER -