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Una Criatura Racional : = Scientific Discourse and Female Participation During the Spanish Enlightenment.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Una Criatura Racional :/
Reminder of title:	Scientific Discourse and Female Participation During the Spanish Enlightenment.
Author:	Beduhn, Caitlin.
Description:	1 online resource (220 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-11, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-11A.
Subject:	Romance literature. -
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ISBN:	9798379521226

Una Criatura Racional : = Scientific Discourse and Female Participation During the Spanish Enlightenment.
Beduhn, Caitlin.

Una Criatura Racional :Scientific Discourse and Female Participation During the Spanish Enlightenment. - 1 online resource (220 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-11, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

In what terms can we best describe ourselves? One exercise of the Enlightenment was to define and categorize, often through rationalizations of intellect. Women, as defined in a Spanish dictionary in 1791, were considered rational but domestic creatures, a term that highlights their state as persons created, molded, and formed by others. Seeds of modern discourse that questioned patriarchal societal standards were sprouting in the eighteenth century, and we see the fruits of these seedlings grow in the years to come. Scientific rhetoric affected the definition of women and the limits of their participation in Spanish society in the Enlightenment, and vice versa. The limitations may or may not be self-imposed, but their origins come from deeply seeded ecclesiastical and patriarchal impositions that granted men superiority in their perceived moral, physical and intellectual strength over women. I reconsider the commonly held Enlightened belief that "ver es creer" through perspectives of feminist theory (Scott, Laqueur) and visual culture (Mieke Bal), and illustrate how scientific discourse helped to shape the enlightened debate defending the intellectual capacity of women in Spain. In the first chapter, I examine Joyes y Blake's "Apologia de las mujeres" finely-tuned lexical skills that target stereotypes that have imprisoned women in their confined domestic space. In the second chapter, descriptions of plants in eighteenth-century botanical texts show an attempt to impose order on the classification of plants through scientific language that reflected and distorted societal limits on gender. In the third chapter, El Capricho garden at La Alameda becomes a mirror of these limits, both the absorptions and reflections mixing to offer an alternative perspective of the time while also pointing to future possibilities. This shows us a glimpse into how these two topics are blended into a space that is physical, mental, and social in nature. The intersection between scientific discourse and the debate on the limits of female participation during the Spanish Enlightenment continues to influence our perceptions of truth and history of this time.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798379521226Subjects--Topical Terms:

1184203
Romance literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Eighteenth-century gardensIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

Una Criatura Racional : = Scientific Discourse and Female Participation During the Spanish Enlightenment.
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