Material Type  

 학위논문

 

0017164415

Date and Time of Latest Transaction  

20250211152959

ISBN  

9798346392798

DDC  

940.2

Author  

Tybush, Brooke Elyse.

Title/Author  

Femmes Galantes, Femmes Savantes: Literary Expressions of Womens Sexuality and Mentorship in the Long Eighteenth Century.

Publish Info  

[S.l.] : The Pennsylvania State University., 2024

Publish Info  

Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024

Material Info  

303 p.

General Note  

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-05, Section: A.

General Note  

Advisor: Rutler, Tracy.

학위논문주기  

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Pennsylvania State University, 2024.

Abstracts/Etc  

요약Femmes Galantes, Femmes Savantes explores instances of woman-to-woman mentorship in ars erotica - or the erotic arts - in eighteenth-century French and Francophone literature. More specifically, this project asks how these mentorships might provide a means of defying and manipulating racist/sexist/heteronormative notions about women's sexuality. The eighteenth-century is an especially salient time for identifying different forms of women's subjugation, as the rapidly growing notion of white bourgeois "virtuous womanhood" in France relegated women to the domestic sphere through expectations of marriage and motherhood, limiting their participation in public life. On the other hand, women of color in colonized spaces such as Saint-Domingue and Senegal faced racist and sexist stereotypes which defined Black and mixed-race women as lascivious seductresses of European men, increasing their vulnerability to white male sexual aggression that was ubiquitous in slave colonies. Ideas such as these about women's bodies and sexuality became widespread throughout the eighteenth-century, permeating medical, literary, and philosophical publications. My project identifies how mentorships in ars erotica help female characters in fiction to resist these heteropatriarchal/racist/sexist ideas about women's bodies and sexuality. They accomplish this through training each other in the courtesan arts - a term I use to describe the lifestyle, practices, and sexual economy of courtesans (elite prostitutes) which I consider in this project to be an erotic artform.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Age of Enlightenment.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Erotica.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Women.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Oppression.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

French literature.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

European history.

Added Entry-Corporate Name  

The Pennsylvania State University.

Host Item Entry  

Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-05A.

Electronic Location and Access  

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