Women in the 18thcentury

The Representation of Women in Early 18th Century England;Claudia Wipprecht In this book is presented the status of women in society in the 18th Century. The conservatives, guided by the clear light of reason, contended for woman's rational and social equality. The married woman was considered to have neither rights nor property due to the fact that with the marriage all her property exchanged automatically to her husband. The only profession women could have was that of a wife and mother. Some women had the possibility to teach children, which was not very high regarded; the weak and tender woman needs to be protected by the strong man. The bold and the brave: a history of women in science and engineering;Monique Frize,Peter R. D. Frize,Nadine Faulkner The Bold and the Brave investigates how women have striven throughout history to gain access to education and careers in science and engineering. Author Monique Frize, herself an engineer for over 40 years, introduces the reader to key concepts and debates that contextualize the obstacles women have faced and continue to face in the fields of science and engineering. She focuses on the history of women's education in mathematics and science through the ages, from antiquity to the Enlightenment. While opportunities for women were often purposely limited, she reveals how many women found ways to explore science outside of formal education.

Brilliant women: 18th-century Bluestocking;Elizabeth Eger, Lucy Peltz During the 18th century a remarkable group of women formed the Bluestocking Salon, where women and men met to debate contemporary ideas and promote the life of the mind. Together, these cultural innovators helped forge new roles for women as influential thinkers, writers, and artists, and their creative achievements were publicly celebrated. Brilliant Women pays tribute to the friendships and achievements of these bluestocking women, presenting new information on the range of cultural activities in which they were engaged, as well as celebrating their legacy. The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women This volume is dedicated to exploring the history of English-speaking women's involvement in the literary world, the traditions of which women writers have been a part, and the experiences women share, with the second and third edition giving more emphasis to how those experiences are shaped by differing cultural, racial, religious, socio-economical, and sexual backgrounds. Jane Austen and the Female Condition: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century England(Pride and Prejudice, Emma) Jane Austen, one of the premier authors of her time, she wrote about: women and the conditions in which they lived. Austen, a systematic ironist, meant that a single woman, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, was in want of a man with a good fortune. In Austen's little world, marriage "was the only honorable provision for a well-educated young woman of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want" (Austen 163). Searching the Stars: The Story of Caroline Herschel; Marilyn B Ogilvie Female astronomers have had to overcome all kinds of social and educational barriers unknown to men in attaining a high level of proficiency in astronomy, and Caroline Herschel was a prime example. Dedicating her life to assisting her brother William and latterly her nephew John in their surveying of the heavens, she forged a reputation as a talented observer by discovering eight comets and increasing the known number of nebulae from 100 to around 2,500.