Rousseau's Daughters


Book Description

Provocative assessment of how new ideas about motherhood and domesticity in pre-Revolutionary France helped women demand social and political equality later on

























Emile


Book Description

Sub-divided into five books, it describes the education and training of a young boy Emile during various stages of his life. Rousseau as his tutor teaches him the way to good living through education. the final book deals with the issues of female education. Even today it is one of the most widely read books on the subject of education. Enlightening!




Their Fathers' Daughters


Book Description

This study addresses what it means for a woman writer to identify strongly with her father by examining two late 18th century writers, Hannah More and Maria Edgeworth.