Routledge Research in Gender and History: Women in the French Enlightenment

From Femme Savante to Mother of the Family By Anna Maria Marchini This volume deals with philosophical, scientific, and ideological images of women during the French Enlightenment, examining their emergence in the reflections of the philosophes, in Catholic morality, in biological and medical knowledge, in novels, in periodicals, and in the law. Alongside the appeals for social and intellectual emancipation advanced by the femmes savantes, typical of the eighteenth-century salons, a new conception pertaining to women’s social role related to the affirmation of the bourgeoisie and of its model of the family took place. Read more

Call for Papers for the Special Issue: Slow Memory After Conflict: Fragments From the Post-Yugoslav Space

Editors: Orli Fridman and Vjeran Pavlakovic Deadline for Submissions: July 26th, 2024 Rationale  Inspired by the COST Action on Slow Memory, it is a pleasure to announce a call for papers to a special issue of the journal Southeastern Europe that will critically engage with the literature from peace and conflict as well as memory studies, aiming to advance our theoretical and methodological understandings of slow memory (Wustenberg 2021; Fridman and Pavlakovic, 2022) and the transformation of conflict (or lack of).  In the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, more than three decades after the end of a series of violent wars and conflicts, the past is still contested, manipulated and subject to intense revisionism as part of ongoing nationalist projects. Read more
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