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Catharine Macaulay: an unsex’d female

dc.contributor.authorRodrigues, Patricia
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-24T10:07:05Z
dc.date.available2020-08-24T10:07:05Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractIn 1978 Richard Polwhele published “The Unsex’d Females: A Poem”, which exemplifies the condemnatory rhetoric that stigmatized several women writers of the late eighteenth-century, including Catharine Macaulay. Female writers of this time were regarded with suspicion, especially if they addressed subjects such as religion or politics, thus breaking out of their proper, private sphere. Recent criticism has even pointed out that the mere act of writing was seen as subversive, as the pen was considered a symbolic phallus, therefore unsexing. The article explores how those female writers, particularly Catharine Macaulay, challenged the traditional political, social and sexual hierarchies and values, and how they were condemned and ostracized on account of their writings and beliefs, by their contemporary society.pt_PT
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dc.identifier.citationRodrigues, Patricia (2012). “Catharine Macaulay: an Unsex’d Female”, Humanities and Social Sciences Review, 1 (1): 19-22.pt_PT
dc.identifier.issn2165-6258
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.15/3040
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
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dc.relation.publisherversionhttp://www.universitypublications.net/hssr/0101/html/toc.htmlpt_PT
dc.subjectCatharine Macaulaypt_PT
dc.subjectunsex’dpt_PT
dc.subjectfemalespt_PT
dc.subjectRichard Polwhelept_PT
dc.subjecteighteenth centurypt_PT
dc.titleCatharine Macaulay: an unsex’d femalept_PT
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.citation.endPage22pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage19pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleHumanities and Social Sciences Reviewpt_PT
oaire.citation.volume1pt_PT
person.familyNameRodrigues
person.givenNamePatricia
person.identifier.ciencia-id0413-02BF-521E
person.identifier.orcid0000-0001-5513-5664
person.identifier.ridJ-7350-2017
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