کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1159078 1490068 2009 8 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Christoph Meiners' History of the Female Sex (1788-1800): The orientalisation of Spain and German nationalism
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی علوم انسانی و هنر تاریخ
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Christoph Meiners' History of the Female Sex (1788-1800): The orientalisation of Spain and German nationalism
چکیده انگلیسی
This article investigates the portrayal of Spanish women in a rarely discussed work by the German popular philosopher Christoph Meiners (1747-1810). Between 1788 and 1800 Meiners wrote four substantial volumes titled History of the Female Sex: Comprising a View of the Habits, Manners, and Influence of Women, Among all Nations, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time, which sought to give an account of the physical and moral qualities of women, and their treatment at the hands of men “at all times in all lands” (Vol. 1, p. III). This article explores the two chapters of this work that address the qualities and status of Spanish women, in order to shed light on perceptions of Spain in northern Europe in the eighteenth century. The decline of the Iberian Peninsula as a seat of European imperial power from the seventeenth century, and the emergence of northern European countries such as France, the British Isles, and even the German provinces, as centres of Enlightenment thinking ushered in a new era of geographical dualism in Europe. This article will build upon recent critiques of the “Orientalisation” of Spain by northern Europeans, showing how the marginalisation of Spain served the nationalist strivings of this provincial German scholar.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: History of European Ideas - Volume 35, Issue 4, December 2009, Pages 433-440
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