In her study of the literature and medical treatises of Enlightenment France, McAlpin explores the belief that premature puberty in young urban girls signalled an increasing moral and physical degeneration. Offering physiologically based readings of heroines in novels by, among others, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Denis Diderot and Choderlos de Laclos, McAlpin shows that the Western view of women's sexuality as a mysterious, nebulous force has its secular origins in the mid-eighteenth century.
In her study of the literature and medical treatises of Enlightenment France, McAlpin explores the belief that premature puberty in young urban girls signalled an increasing moral and physical degeneration. Offering physiologically based readings of heroines in novels by, among others, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Denis Diderot and Choderlos de Laclos, McAlpin shows that the Western view of women's sexuality as a mysterious, nebulous force has its secular origins in the mid-eighteenth century.
Mary McAlpin is Associate Professor of French at the University of Tennessee, USA.
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Introduction: Daughters of Eve Chapter 1 Puberty and the Splitting of the Single Sex Chapter 2 Women as Bellwethers of Cultural Degradation Chapter 3 Julie d'Etange, or Sexuality and the Virtuous Heroine Chapter 4 The Marquise de Merteuil, or Sexuality in the State of Nature Chapter 5 Marie-Jeanne Roland, or Sexuality and the Republic of Virtue conclusion Conclusion: Sade's Way
Introduction: Daughters of Eve Chapter 1 Puberty and the Splitting of the Single Sex Chapter 2 Women as Bellwethers of Cultural Degradation Chapter 3 Julie d'Etange, or Sexuality and the Virtuous Heroine Chapter 4 The Marquise de Merteuil, or Sexuality in the State of Nature Chapter 5 Marie-Jeanne Roland, or Sexuality and the Republic of Virtue conclusion Conclusion: Sade's Way
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