From Silence to “Civil Converse”: Of the Attempts to Control Seventeenth-Century Women’s “Ripe Wit and Ready Tongues”
Throughout the seventeenth century, “Discretion, Silence and Modesty” remained three qualities expected from women. While early-century misogynists violently accused women of seducing and then dominating men with their “ready tongues,” the authors of treatises insisted that they “should be seen and...
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| Language: | English |
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Société d'Etudes Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
2016-12-01
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| Series: | XVII-XVIII |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/1718/752 |