Feminism: 1676 De L’Égalité des Deux Sexes, Poulain de la Barre, Paris
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Title: De L’Égalité des Deux Sexes, Discours Physique et Moral, où l’on voit l’importance de se défaire des Préjugez. Author: François Poulain [Poullain] de la Barre Edition: 1676. Publication: Paris: Jean De Puis Description: 221 numbered pages; Preface 10 pages, Avertissiment 4 pages; Extrait du Privelege du Roy 2 pages. 145 X 90 mm; Essential book in the history of feminism, a turning point of feminist argumentation and philosophy. François Poulain de la Barre (b. 1647 in Paris) rejected the dogmatic reasoning style of his scholastic education in writing this foundational feminist text. It is the first of three works, published in succession between 1673 and 1675, in which he makes an argument for the equality of the sexes. While other feminist writers before him called upon religious and philosophical authorities, Poulain was the first to base his argument on reason alone. After its translation in 1677 as The Woman as Good as the Man, Poulain's work became influential in England, where it was widely and enthusiastically plagiarized throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. "Poulain changed the focus of the debate about women in the seventeenth century. He challenged the factual claims on which opponents of sexual equality relied, rejected the value of appealing to women's nature as if it were something that could be known independently of the properties that were predicated of it, and rejected as invalid any inference from established customs (as mere facts) to a moral or political justification of women's status. Poulain may be described as the first Cartesian feminist" (Clarke). Particularly fascinating about this book is the way in which the Cartesian doubt that Poulain employs to dispel traditional arguments in favor of gender inequality also has the potential to undermine his own work. In fact, that doubt confirms the book's philosophical credibility while also making room for further advancements in feminist thought. Condition: Please see pictures.
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