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In the eighteenth century, changes in the nature of political thought and education radically
changed the lives of men, but did they also change the lives of women? Section i. explores the
role of women in eighteenth-century Europe; the increasing interest in elaborating the
differences between the sexes; and the ways in which women’s opportunities were at some times
expanded and at others constrained. Section ii. considers the impact of two important
developments –the Enlightenment and the French Revolution- on the rights and duties of
women: did they change women’s status? How did the new philosophical discourse change
women’s behaviour? Did the new political order offer opportunities for women’s involvement in
the public sphere and politics? Section iii. looks at women as workers in the decades prior to
industrialisation, and should serve as a key comparative background to the more dramatic
changes witnessed during the nineteenth century.
11 Cultures of Knowledge
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Cambridge University Press, 2001
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12 Enlightened absolutism
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