“None are Tyrants but Cowards”. Analysis and interpretation of the English feminist pamphlet An Essay in Defense of the Female Sex (1696)
The article is a detailed study of the pamphlet "An Essay in Defense of the Female Sex" (1696). It offers a reconstruction of its argumentative structure and an analysis of its rhetorical strategies. The theoretical and methodological framework used is both historical and systematic: we se...
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ARFIL y UNL
2022
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| Acceso en línea: | https://bibliotecavirtual.unl.edu.ar/publicaciones/index.php/index/article/view/10156 |
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| Sumario: | The article is a detailed study of the pamphlet "An Essay in Defense of the Female Sex" (1696). It offers a reconstruction of its argumentative structure and an analysis of its rhetorical strategies. The theoretical and methodological framework used is both historical and systematic: we seek to contextualize the work in the intellectual field of British Enlightenment at the dawn of the 18th century, as well as to interpose a contemporary gender perspective for the examination of the arguments used, of the rhetorical deployment of discourse and the more philosophically robust conclusions. In particular, the article defends the emergence of a nature-history dichotomy that allows the author, on the one hand, to unmask a situation of male dominance critically recognizable as a direct antecedent of contemporary feminist discussions and, on the other, to offer a rhetorical pathway for the conformation and reconfiguration of a feminine ethos and pathos. |
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