By Madame de Maintenon,John J. Conley S.J.
ISBN-10: 0226502414
ISBN-13: 9780226502410
ISBN-10: 0226502422
ISBN-13: 9780226502427
Denounced by means of her contemporaries as a political schemer and non secular enthusiast, Maintenon has lengthy been criticized as an opponent of gender equality. The writings during this quantity faithfully mirror Maintenon's admire for social hierarchy and her stoic demand girls to just accept the tasks in their nation in lifestyles. however the writings additionally echo Maintenon's extra feminist issues: the necessity to redefine the virtues within the mild of women's event, the significance of naming the limitations on women's freedom, and the pressing have to treatment the scandalous forget of the schooling of women.
In her writings in addition to in her personal version institution at Saint-Cyr, Maintenon embodies the call for for academic reform because the key to the empowerment of ladies on the sunrise of modernity.
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